Former Brazilian soccer federation president Jose Maria Marin agreed to be extradited to the United States, where he faces bribery charges in connection withthe indictments of 14 FIFA officials and sports marketing executives. Marin was one of seven soccer officials arrested in May at their Zurich hotel, where they were staying for the FIFA Congress.Marin […]
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Legal moves clear way for Copa Centanario
Concacaf announced on Wednesday that it had ended its agreement with South American marketing firm Datisa for the Copa America Centenario, clearing the way for the 2016 tournament to move forward. Theprincipals of Datisa were among the 14 FIFA officials and sports marketing executives indicted in Federal court in May after an agreement was reached […]
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Saving FIFA from itself, how the Feds are soccer's good guys
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are fighting the 90-day suspensions handed down by FIFA’s ethics committee for a $2million payment Platini received from FIFA in 2011 for work he said he did many years earlier. The case against them, sources told the Associated Press, hinges on the suspicious nature of thetransactions: neither could present a […]
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What They're Saying: Stephen Flamhaft
“They have not in any shape or form condemned Blazer. That’s offensive to me. I’m a former prosecutor, so I have sense of balance as to what’s right and what’s wrong I think. This has gone on to apoint where I no longer where I want to hold back.” — Brooklyn attorney and longtime soccer […]
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Messi and his father ordered into court
Lionel Messi and his father Jorge will stand charged with defrauding Spanish tax authorities of more than $4.5 million.The public prosecutor wants Jorge Messi to spend 18 months in jail and pay a fine of $2.25 million defrauding the state in the years 2007-2009. The prosecutorargued Lionel Messi should not be charged as his father […]
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Honduran soccer boss arrested in Miami
Yankel Rosenthal, the president of perennial Honduran first division power Marathon, was arrested Tuesday at Miami’s airport on money laundering charges.Rosenthal is a former adviser to President Juan Hernandez on investment promotion, having left his position in June without explanation. His uncle, Jaime Rosenthal, one of Honduras’ most powerful businessmen, and cousin Yani Rosenthal were […]
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Will Platini join rogues gallery of disgraced confederation bosses?
Michel Platini, the former French great and current UEFA president, remains the favorite to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFApresident despite being accused of accepting a $2 million “disloyal payment” from Blatter in 2011 for work deemed to have been done from January 1999 to June 2002, though key European backers have started to express concerns […]
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Lionel Messi needs to get better advice
For a guy who seems to have all the money he’ll ever need, one wonders why Lionel Messi ever got mixed up with Messi & Friends. In the summer of 2012 and2013, Messi played a series of all-star games in Colombia, Mexico and United States. The second year was a fiasco, and Spanish Guardia Civil […]
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FIFA boss Jerome Valcke suspended over ticket allegations
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke — its chief executive officer — has been suspended until further notice. In a statement, FIFA said it had “been madeaware of a series of allegations involving the secretary general and has requested a formal investigation by the FIFA Ethics Committee.” The move follows a news conference Thursday in Zurichat […]
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Scandals will be cloud over FIFA — and soccer — for years
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) As if the current FIFA scandals weren’t bad enough, they aren’t the firsttime soccer’s house on the hills of Zurich has been awash with scandal. The ISL scandal should have served as a warning that corruption at the highest level of the game was pervasive andgrowing as big money poured into […]