AMMAN: Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, former FIFA presidential candidate, expressed concerns over the pace of improvement in FIFA’s governing body and says new president Gianni Infantino has “no time to lose” in bringing transparency to the organisation. After multiple corruption scandals that plunged the governing body into catastrophic times, Infantino was elected in February to lead FIFA into calmer waters Prince Ali told Reuters in an interview that Infantino should direct his attention to executing alterations rather than issues such as proposals to expand the World Cup. “As a new president, he has to look at his own administration and see what’s going on there,” he told Reuters in Jordan, which is currently hosting the Women’s Under-17 World Cup. In a region where women are held-back by cultural and religious conservatism, this tournament – being the first FIFA organised female World Cup in the Middle East – is considered a significant milestone. “Everybody is looking at FIFA and the direction it is going.” Soccer’s global governing body is struggling to recover from a corruption scandal which saw 42 people, including former FIFA executive committee members, charged in the United States since May last year. In Switzerland, where FIFA has its headquarters, criminal investigations are under way as well. FIFA’s decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar, a small, wealthy desert country with no real soccer tradition, also opened an investigation. Prince Ali said that he understood how urgent it was to speed up the investigations and tackle corruption. “You really need to have a clean FIFA to be able to trickle down to our national associations” said Prince Ali, highlighting on-going problems such as match-fixing. “The reality is putting aside the big ideas for the World Cup, the real issue is the organisation and cleaning it up,” he added.