Swiss prosecutors regret German FIFA inquiry publication
BERN: Swiss federal prosecutors investigating FIFA say their work could be harmed by an inquiry report published in Germany, which risks helping...
View ArticleFIFA makes huge damages claim against 'sordid' officials
FIFA today demanded tens of millions of dollars in damages from the "sordid" officials now facing charges in the United States over mass bribery scandals that have rocked world football. In a...
View ArticleSepp Blatter absent as Gianni Infantino opens FIFA museum
Gianni Infantino FIFA’s newly elected President replaced Sepp Blatter on Friday. Newly-elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino paid tribute to his disgraced predecessor in the job, Sepp Blatter, for...
View ArticleGianni Infantino’s ‘new dawn’ hit as police study Fifa ticket deals
Swiss prosecutors are believed to have launched investigations into World Cup ticketing contracts stretching back decades, opening up a new front in their probe into Fifa corruption. World Cup tickets...
View ArticleGianni Infantino and Fifa must turn greed into need for game’s global good
It may have been tiredness at the end of a long campaign or simply disbelief that he had pulled off an unlikely victory, but as he stood before his new, none more dysfunctional “Fifa family” the dazed...
View ArticleDisgraced ex-FIFA boss Sepp Blatter turns 80
LAUSANNE: Sepp Blatter turned 80 on Thursday, with a party planned at a luxury hotel in Zurich, as Switzerland's criminal investigation into his FIFA presidency looked set to intensify. After his...
View ArticleSouth Africa paid $10m bribe for hosting 2010 World Cup: FIFA
ZURICH: FIFA on Wednesday demanded tens of millions of dollars in damages from the "sordid" officials now facing charges in the United States over mass bribery scandals that have rocked world football....
View ArticleBeckenbauer ends punditry work in midst of 2006 scandal
BERLIN: German football legend Franz Beckenbauer, who is being investigated over the 2006 World Cup scandal, is giving up his punditry work for Sky Deutschland, it was announced on Wednesday. Having...
View ArticleWhy is Fifa pursuing some of its former executives through the US courts?
Chasing Jack Warner, Chuck Blazer and Nicolás Leoz, among others, for repayment of misappropriated millions looks a brassy move – and part of an effort to distinguish ‘new Fifa’ from ‘old Fifa’...
View ArticleFifa demands huge sums of damages from disgraced officials
Fifa on Wednesday demanded tens of millions of dollars in damages from the "sordid" officials now facing charges in the United States over mass bribery scandals that have rocked world football. In a...
View ArticleBlatter absent as Infantino opens FIFA museum
ZURICH: Newly-elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino paid tribute to his disgraced predecessor in the job, Sepp Blatter, for the role he played in establishing a new $140million football museum which...
View ArticleBlatter surprised by FFF office search
Sepp Blatter is surprised by the search that was conducted of French Football Federation offices on Wednesday. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was shocked to learn of a search of the French...
View ArticleSepp Blatter salary to be revealed this month
LAUSANNE: Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter's salary will be revealed later this month, his spokesman said on Wednesday. "Mr. Blatter's income will be known end of March," Klaus Stoehlker,...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: FIFA reveals Blatter salary of $3.76m in 2015
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who began a six-year ban from football last year, was paid a salary of $3.76m during 2015. Suspended ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter was paid $3.76million in 2015...
View ArticleGianni Infantino calls for 'bullet-proof' World Cup bidding process (PFA -...
(Source: PFA - Professional Footballers' Association) FIFA president Gianni Infantino believes football's world governing body must make the World Cup bidding process 'bullet-proof'. The 45-year-old,...
View ArticleFFF offices searched, documents seized in connection with criminal...
The criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter has led to a search of the FFF's offices in Paris. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has searched the offices of the French Football...
View ArticleMichel Platini files appeal against ban to Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Frenchman had original eight-year ban reduced to six by Fifa...
View ArticleGianni Infantino chairs the final FIFA ExCo meeting (PFA - Professional...
(Source: PFA - Professional Footballers' Association) FIFA president Gianni Infantino has chaired his first and last executive committee meeting as football's world governing body presses ahead with...
View ArticleFIFA opens 2006 World Cup cases against Beckenabuer, Niersbach
The FIFA ethics committee says it has opened a bribery investigation into Franz Beckenbauer and other officials from Germany's...
View ArticleFIFA open proceedings over German World Cup 2006 bid
FIFA's ethics committee has opened formal proceedings against six individuals, including former World Cup winning coach and player Franz Beckenbauer, over the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany....
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