For the first time since the formal suspension of two of its highest-ranking members, FIFA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) will meet in Zurich on Tuesday. According to PA Sport, the hastily organized “emergency meeting”will cover a number of items, including possibly postponing FIFA’s Feb. 26 presidential election.
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FIFA's 'Votes-for-Bribes' Program
The FIFA scandal really is the gift that keeps on giving — so much so, that perhaps we should refer to it as “The FIFA Unraveling,” because with each passing day, it’s looking more andmore likely that 1) we’ve probably only just scratched the surface of the corruption inside this organization, and 2) FIFA really […]
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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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Report: FIFA presidential election could be postponed
A decision on whether to hold an emergency meeting of the FIFA executive committee will likely be made next week, given the suspensions to FIFA president SeppBlatter and UEFA president Michel Platini, who was the leading candidate to succeed him. A key item on the agenda would be to postpone the electionscheduled for Feb. 26. […]
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What's next for FIFA? Who knows? And that's the problem …
So we’ve had another big day of news out of Zurich. FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini havebeen suspended. FIFA’s ethics committee has also suspended general secretary Jerome Valcke though that was sort of overkill as Blatter already relieved him ofhis duties. And Chung Mong Joon, the scion of the Hyundai empire […]
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FIFA in total meltdown: Blatter and Platini suspended
“International soccer was engulfed by a new crisis on Thursday as FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president MichelPlatini, the two most powerful men in soccer, were suspended from all soccer activities for 90 days by FIFA’s ethics committee, leaving the sport reeling from scandals across the globe with apower vacuum at the top. In […]
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What They're Saying: FIFA statement
“On a joint decision it was agreed to postpone the UEFA-FIFA challenge 2015, which had been scheduled for Friday, 2 October, until further notice.” — FIFA statement to the AssociatedPress on the postponement of the annual staff game in the aftermath of recent developments that saw a Swiss criminal investigation opened against FIFA president Sepp Blatter […]
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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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Swiss AG: Platini treated as 'between a witness and an accused person'
Speaking at Zurich University, Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber said UEFA president Michel Platini was being treated as “betweena witness and an accused person” in the investigation into the $2 million payment he received from UEFA in 2011. Lauber said authorities would raid Platini’s UEFA office in Nyon if necessary todiscover the “real truth.” Investigators questioned Platini […]
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Platini Refutes Scandal Speculation
FIFA presidential hopeful and current UEFA president Michel Platini on Monday responded to speculation linking him to the FIFA scandal after it emerged Friday that soccer’s worldgoverning body had paid the Frenchman $2 million in 2011 for work completed nearly ten years earlier. Platini began his statement by pointing out that he has not been […]