vienna fifa would help fund a global agency to tackle corruption in sport its president gianni infantino said on mondaycreating a body like the world antidoping agency to address financial corruption matchfixing and the influence of organized crime in sport has been talked about for more than a decade without a detailed proposalwe at fifa are ready to invest in it infantino said suggesting maybe the creation of such an agency would help make sport safe in the decades to comeas infantino spoke at a united nations event in austria the corruption trial was opening in switzerland of three men including qatari soccer and television executive nasser alkhelaifi and former fifa secretary general jerome valcketheir case arose from yearslong american and swiss investigations of suspected corruption in soccer that removed a generation of international leaders from office and helped lift infantino to the fifa presidency in 2016his funding pledge was made when signing a cooperation agreement between fifa and the viennabased un office on drugs and crime which connects international officials and programsspeakers at the event included diplomats from russia and qatar winners of the 2018 and 2022 world cup hosting votes in 2010 that fifa later asked swiss federal prosecutors to investigateno convictions have been secured in switzerland though criminal proceedings are also open against infantinos predecessor sepp blatter and former uefa president michel platini for alleged mismanagement of fifa funds not directly linked to world cup bidding they were questioned in the past two weeksnever again never again corruption in football said infantino who is himself under investigation in switzerland over meetings he had with thenattorney general michael lauberlauber left office two weeks ago after being disciplined for failing to declare a june 2017 meeting with infantino where he took no notes and misleading a subsequent internal investigation