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BUENOS AIRES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- FIFA announced Friday that it would send a "normalizing committee" to help the Argentinean Football Association (AFA) move beyond the crisis that has engulfed it for months.
A FIFA press release said this committee would take over the AFA's day-to-day management, revise its statutes to bring them with FIFA's statutes and regulations, and organize elections.
FIFA also stated that elections would have to happen by July 30, 2017 and that the committee was founded after a FIFA meeting with officials from the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) earlier this month.
The committee will also be made up of five to seven members, picked by FIFA and Conmebol.
The AFA has been the victim of a power struggle since the death of its president, Julio Grondona, in 2014, while also being embroiled in the FIFA corruption scandal.
Furthermore, the Argentinean government is investigating the AFA for allegedly embezzling millions of U.S. dollars, given as part of the Football for All program.
