Moya Dodd, perhaps the most active and outspoken women involved in FIFA, has lost an election this week to FIFA’s 37-member council, which is FIFA’s decision-making body.

FIFA critics are already starting to question the woman who beat her out.

The Australian Dodd was defeated by Mahfuza Akhter Kiron of Bangladesh, who said she has been running Bangladesh's women's football program for years.

"This is like a dream come true," Kiron told the BBC. "I want to do something for Asian women's football. I am a sports organizer. For the last 10 years I worked with football and business."

Dodd, who pushed for sweeping changes in FIFA's governance structure after the high-profile arrests and investigations of numerous football executives in 2015, said the result was "disappointing" but declined to label the vote as a step back for reform.