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FIFA plays the China card

In conjunction with its first executive committee meeting since Gianni Infantino was elected president, FIFA tried to make the case that the past is the past, and it was putting years ofscandal behind it and beginning to work out of the financial hole it dug itself into. That included the announcement of China’s Wanda Group […]

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FIFA wants its money back

FIFA filed suit to recover some of the more than $190 million alreadyforfeited by soccer and marketing officials — 12 former executive committee members — who have pleaded guilty in Federal court in the corruption case that mostly involves Concacaf and Conmebolcompetitions. FIFA wants the money — more than $28 million in total — that […]

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French federation raided in connection with FIFA scandal

At the behest of the Swiss federal prosecutor, the French Financial Prosecution Office raided the French soccer federation headquarters in connection with the Swiss criminal case against former FIFApresident Sepp Blatter. The cases focuses on a secret transaction in which Blatter approved a $2 million payment from FIFA funds for Michel Platini in 2011. Blatter […]

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German soccer scandal tarnishes 'summer fairy tale'

Another internal and costly ($4 million) investigation into a major international soccer scandal ended with another highly unsatisfactory verdict. No evidence of vote-rigging in the awarding of the2006 World Cup to Germany was found. Sounds like 2010, and 2018 and 2022? “We have no proof of vote-buying,” Christian Duve of the Freshfields law firm, commissioned […]

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Report: Blatter whistleblower aids Swiss authorities

BBC Sport reports that an unnamed person has blown the whistle on Sepp Blatter in connection with the criminal case against banned the FIFA president.  “The Swiss Attorney General’s officereceived valuable information from a testimony that might be very helpful,” a spokesman told BBC Sport. Blatter is being investigated on two fronts: the $2 million […]

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