RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) head Marco Polo Del Nero returned to work on Wednesday after completing a 45-day leave of absence taken to fight charges he is involved in soccer’s wide-ranging corruption scandal, the organisation said. Del Nero was charged by U.S. prosecutors on Dec. 3 with participating in schemes […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics watchdog has extended Secretary General Jerome Valcke’s suspension from world soccer as it prepares a ruling over accusations of corruption involving the sale of World Cup tickets. The French administrator has denied any wrongdoing in the case, which is among dozens of allegations rocking soccer’s governing body, caught up in […]
By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) – FIFA faces a “catastrophic” future if the wrong man is elected head of world soccer’s governing body, presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein said on Tuesday when he published his election manifesto. The 40-year-old Jordanian royal, who was beaten by 133-73 votes by Sepp Blatter in last May’s election, […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – FIFA’s ethics watchdog has recommended a nine-year ban for secretary-general Jerome Valcke over alleged corruption involving the sale of World Cup tickets, among the dozens of scandals rocking soccer’s crisis-plagued governing body. Cornel Borbely, chief investigator for FIFA’s independent ethics committee, requested that Valcke be fined 100,000 Swiss francs after completing an […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) on Wednesday handed over the first batch of evidence to U.S. authorities for its investigation into alleged bribery schemes for soccer marketing rights. Zurich-based FIFA is mired in a graft scandal with authorities in Switzerland and the United States investigating corruption by various individuals with ties […]
By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) – Banned UEFA president Michel Platini could face further investigation from FIFA’s Ethics Committee after attending an awards ceremony and conference in Dubai despite being barred from “all football activity”. Platini, the head of European soccer body UEFA, was handed an eight year ban from the game by FIFA’s Ethics […]
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Former head of South America’s CONMEBOL soccer body Eugenio Figueredo has admitted he received bribes from television firms in exchange for maintaining media rights, a lawyer involved in the case in Uruguay said on Saturday. CONMEBOL, an influential grouping that includes traditional soccer powers such as Brazil and Argentina, is heavily embroiled […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – Shaken by corruption scandals, global soccer body FIFA on Wednesday presented the detailed reforms it will ask members to adopt in February at a special congress that seeks to restore its reputation and elect a new leader. The reforms include limiting the number of terms top officials can serve, following the banning […]
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s sports minister questioned the legitimacy of FIFA’s Ethics Committee on Tuesday after it imposed an eight-year ban that appears to have ended his compatriot Michel Platini’s chances of becoming head of the world football body. FIFA’s outgoing president, Sepp Blatter, and Platini, head of the European football body UEFA, were both […]
By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) – FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini, the two most powerful men in world soccer, were banned for eight years on Monday for ethics violations, leaving the world’s most popular sport rudderless in a sea of corruption cases. The pair, who were also fined, had been suspended […]
