[FIFA IN CRISIS] A day after he withdrew from his candidacy for FIFA president, paving the way for incumbent to win re-election to a fourth term, Asian FootballConfederation President Mohamed Bin Hammam was suspended by the FIFA Ethics Committee, pending full hearing on charges he participated in a”cash-for-vote” scheme to win support from Caribbean federations […]
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Warner triggers his tsunami
[FIFA IN CRISIS] Jack Warner unleashed his “tsunami” on FIFA following the decision of its ethics committee to suspendformer FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam, two Caribbean Football Union officials and him. Warner claimed FIFA President Sepp Blatter gave Concacaf $1 million to “spend as it deems fit” over the objections of UEFA President Michel […]
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Blatter: Crisis? What is a crisis?
[FIFA IN CRISIS] A day after he was cleared of ethics charges and two days after his rival for the FIFA presidency, Mohamed BinHammam, threw in the towel, you would have expected 75-year-old Sepp Blatter to be in a good mood. But he was far from it during a stormy pressconference on Monday that showed […]
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How the cash-for-votes deal went down
[FIFA IN CRISIS] As a FIFA ethics committee heard charges Sunday in Zurich in the money-for-votes scandal that rocked the governing body, details of thenow-infamous Caribbean Football Union May 10-11 at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, Trinidad, began to emerge. According to Paul Kelso of the Daily Telegraph, who was shown a copy […]
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Bin Hammam quits presidential race
[FIFA IN CRISIS] In the latest twist to the FIFA crisis triggered by bribery charges against Concacaf president Jack Warnerand him, Mohamed Bin Hammam withdrew from the race for FIFA president on Saturday, one day before FIFA President SeppBlatter, Warner and Bin Hammam are due to face a FIFA ethics committee hearing. The 62-year-old Qatari […]
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FIFA sinks deeper into corruption mire
By Paul Gardner Sunday’s meeting of the FIFA Ethics Committee will, evidently, be a unique one. Because for the first time that I’m aware of, it will be presented withsolid proof of corruption. Or so we are told. The Ethics Committee has 13 members and is allegedly independent — I say allegedly, because I feel […]
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FIFA in crisis, Day 2
[UPDATE] A day after the sensational news that American Chuck Blazer accused his longtime Concacaf colleague Jack Warner and Mohamed bin Hammam of a bribery scheme to win the votes of Caribbean members in bin Hammam’s bid tounseat Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, more details emerged about the meeting that took place earlier this month […]
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Americans at center of FIFA bribery scandal
[FIFA] Cluck Blazer, who leveled the explosive bribery charges against FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam and Blazer’s boss, Concacaf president Jack Warner, that rocked the soccer world in Wednesday, is awell-known figure on the American soccer scene for more than a quarter century. The charges against bin Hammam, Warner and two Caribbean Football Union […]
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Blazer accuses Bin Hammam and Warner of corruption
A week before the FIFA presidential election, Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer has informed the body’s Ethics Committee that during a meeting in theBahamas two weeks ago violations may have been committed by four officials, including presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam and Concacaf presidentJack Warner. Bin Hammam and Warner will be questioned by the committee on […]
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Bribery scandal benefits Blatter
[MY VIEW] Will the USA get a second bite at the apple? FIFA President Sepp Blatter didn’t rule out the possibility of are-vote in the wake of the continuing investigation into Qatar’s victory in the race to host the 2022 World Cup. Not much about FIFA’s politics is unscripted, so it’s not outside therealm of […]