What’s the difference between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his discredited predecessor, Sepp Blatter? “One comes from Brig,” ousted FIFA investigator CornelBorbely said. “The other from Visp.” While Infantino is not accused of financial wrongdoing like Blatter, the former UEFA executive seems to have the same thirst for power inthe clandestine way decisions are made.
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Does FIFA have its own Comey problem?
On Tuesday, the same day FBI director James Comey was fired, the FIFA Council decided not to renew the terms of FIFA chief ethics investigator Cornel Borbely and FIFA ethics chief judgeHans-Joachim Eckert. As you can imagine, Borbely and Eckert have been busy the last few years. The federal indictment of dozens of soccer officials […]
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Report: FIFA's chief ethics investigator and ethics judge replaced
Ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert and chief investigator Cornel Borbely will not have their mandates, which ran until Thursday’s FIFA congress, renewed despiteexpressing a desire to continue their work cleaning up FIFA. The pair have overseen the suspension and expulsion of a series of officials including former FIFA President Sepp Blatterand Secretary General Jerome Valcke.
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Setback for soccer with Moya Dodd defeat
The good news is that each of FIFA’s six confederations is required to be represented by at least one woman on the new FIFA council — 37 members in all — an improvement from the FIFA executivecommittee, which had no female representation until 2013. The bad news: Asia is represented by Bangladeshi Mahfuza Akhter. It […]
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FIFA kingpin quits in fallout from latest federal plea
Many soccer fans of a certain age will have remembered Sheikh Ahmad‘s father. Only those who have followed soccer politics in recent years will know Sheikh Ahmad himself. SheikhFahad was president of the Kuwaiti Football Association in 1982 when he was at the center of one of the most bizarre scenes in the history of […]
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FIFA opens proceedings against CFU president Derrick
FIFA opened ethics proceedings against the president of the Caribbean Football Union, Gordon Derrick. Investigators had recommended a ban of at least four years and a fine of at least 15,000Swiss francs ($15,120) for Derrick, who is also the general secretary of the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association. The probe stems from charges of conflicts […]
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They're back! FIFA scandals enter new territory
It seemed like eons ago that Swiss police showed up (the first time) at 6 a.m. at the five-star Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, asked for the room registry and began knocking on doors and hauling awayFIFA officials only protected from public view by bed sheets held up by hotel employees suit coats with […]
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What They're Saying: Alejandro Dominguez
“We had said that we would have four pillars, and the first two pillars were clear accounts and accountability. Today we are accountable to the leaders and the whole world of football.” — Conmebol president Alejandro Dominguez after an Ernst & Young audit found leaders of South America’s soccer confederation transferred $128.6 million between 2000 […]
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Concacaf sues Warner and Blazer for $20 million
In papers filed this week in Federal court in Brooklyn, Concacaf sued former FIFA officials and Concacaf executives Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer of embezzlement, accusing them ofnegotiating bribes and kickbacks in connection with lucrative broadcasting rights for Concacaf tournaments, including the Gold Cup, and seeking the $20 million in compensatory damages and unspecifiedpunitive damages. […]
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Blatter says he met with U.S. Justice Department officials last fall
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter told a group of international reporters on Friday he had met lawyers from the U.S. Justice Department but was not a suspect in their ongoing corruptioninvestigations. The 81-year-old Blatter, banned for six years by FIFA’s own ethics committee at the height of the FIFA scandal, said he had met the U.S. […]