FIFA should limit terms for senior officials, set up an independent group to clear up anti-corruption allegations and "embrace transparency", corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) said on Tuesday, August 16.

TI said that, despite recent measures, world soccer's governing body still gave the impression of being run "like an old boys' network".

It added that the new group should be composed of representatives from outside FIFA, such as elder statesmen, sponsors, media and civil society, and inside football, such as players, women's football, referees and supporters.

"FIFA says it wants to reform, but successive bribery scandals have left public trust in it at an all time low," said Sylvia Schenk, TI's senior advisor on sport. "Working with an oversight group - taking its advice, giving it access, letting it participate in investigations - will show whether there is going to be real change. The process has to start now."

FIFA president Sepp Blatter, re-elected for a fourth term in June, promised to create a new committee to act as a watchdog, mentioning former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Spanish tenor Placido Domingo as possible members.

He has yet to announce further details.

In its report, the Berlin-based watchdog, which issues a global league table of the least corrupt nations, said: "FIFA is both a non-governmental, non-profit organization and a global company with huge revenues, unprecedented reach, political clout and enormous worldwide social influence."

But it said FIFA was only accountable to its 208 member associations who elected the FIFA president and in turn, received handouts from soccer's governing body, Reuters reported.