By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino says he believes he can win February’s vote to replace Sepp Blatter at the helm of the crisis-hit global football body after picking up what he called major support in the Caribbean. The FIFA election is taking place against the backdrop of a massive […]
Presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan has complained to FIFA about an agreement signed between the African and Asian confederations.
By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics committee said on Thursday that former World Cup bid inspector Harold Mayne-Nicholls repeatedly asked for personal favours from one of the countries that bid to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Mayne-Nicholls, who was banned for seven years on July 6, “ignored his responsibility as a […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa could revisit the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups if he wins next month’s FIFA presidential election and previous “wrongful conduct” has been proven. World soccer’s governing body is facing criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States, where 41 soccer officials and […]
By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) – World soccer body FIFA said on Wednesday it had fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scandals at the sport’s governing authority “The FIFA Emergency Committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome […]
LONDON (Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale feels sorry for Sepp Blatter, the banned president of soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body, and has described his work as a “monument.” Sexwale, a South African businessman and politician, is one of five candidates standing to replace Blatter, who has been banned for eight years along with European […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics panel said on Saturday it had formally given outgoing President Sepp Blatter and European soccer head Michel Platini the reasons for their eight-year bans from the game, information both men could use in an appeal. Blatter and Platini were banned last month amid the worst corruption scandal in the history […]
By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) – Banned European soccer boss Michel Platini has withdrawn his candidacy from the race for the presidency of soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body FIFA, he told French sports daily L’Equipe on Thursday. Platini, the head of European soccer body UEFA, was handed an eight-year ban from the game along with outgoing […]
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguayan state prosecutors on Thursday raided the headquarters of South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL after a request for cooperation from U.S. justice officials probing corruption inside world soccer, the prosecution office said. CONMEBOL lawyer Cristóbal Cáceres said the raid was linked to the case pending in the United States […]
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended Guatemalan judge who was arrested last month as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption in soccer’s world governing body FIFA won the right to be released from jail on Thursday on a $4 million bond. Héctor Trujillo, 62, was secretary general of the Guatemalan soccer […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian football boss Marco Polo Del Nero, one of 16 soccer officials indicted by U.S. prosecutors last month, is to go on leave again from Friday for up to 150 days, his organization, CBF, said on Thursday. Del Nero returned to work on Wednesday after completing a 45-day leave of […]
