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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Pele, Bobby Charlton join Fifa 2014 task force


Pele (above) will be Franz Beckenbauer's deputy on a Fifa-appointed team that will recommend ways to improve football before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

ZURICH - PELE will be Franz Beckenbauer's deputy on a Fifa-appointed team that will recommend ways to improve football before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.


Fifa on Thursday announced the composition of the 22-member Task Force Football 2014, which also includes World Cup winners Bobby Charlton, Cafu and Christian Karembeu.

Other former players include former AC Milan teammates Demetrio Albertini and Dejan Savicevic, Fernando Hierro and Zambia's Kalusha Bwalya.

Fifa also appointed Swiss referee Massimo Busacca and officials from three countries who lost in bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups: United States federation leader Sunil Gulati, England's Alex Horne and Japan's Kohzo Tashima.

Fifa says the panel will first meet May 10 in Zurich. 

-- AP

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