MADRID (AP) β The president of the Spanish football federation is being urged by some of his country’s leading sports figures to talk openly about the corruption investigations facing FIFA.
Angel Maria Villar, a member of FIFA’s executive committee and the highest-ranking vice president at UEFA, has yet to make any wide-ranging comment on events that have rocked the world soccer’s governing body.
Miguel Cardenal, president of the Spanish government’s higher sports council, says “these corruption practices demand an immediate response” and adds it would be good for Villar to come forward with what he knows.
Spanish league president Javier Tebas said Wednesday that Villar “is either very smart or very stupid” for not suspecting there was something wrong happening around him.
