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 […]
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FIFA Exhibit Opens in Mob Museum
The AP reports that the same Las Vegas museum that has chronicled Las Vegas’ mob beginnings led by the likes of Bugsy Siegel hopes to score with a new exhibit looking at thewide-ranging criminal investigation into soccer’s governing body, FIFA. The Mob Museum debuted the exhibit Tuesday morning, the first of a rotating crop of […]
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Report: U.S., Swiss Authorities Collaborate on FIFA Investigations
On Sept. 14 in Zurich, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will join her counterpart from Switzerland, Michael Lauber, for a news conference about their separate investigations ofcorruption inside FIFA, soccer’s world governing body. The joint conference will explain the “status of the two criminal proceedings,” Swiss officials said in a statement on Tuesday.Though the cases […]
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Maitre Carrard and the FIFA scandal involving not so few rogues
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Former IOC director general FrancoisCarrard‘s comments about American soccer — “an ethnic sport for girls in schools” — exposed his ignorance and forced FIFA to distance itself from the remarks, suggesting via a spokeswoman on Thursday that they were his “personal views” and “donot reflect the views or position of FIFA.” […]
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The Sepp Blatter Interview: Still Drinking the FIFA Kool-Aid
The BBC on Monday published an interview between outgoing FIFA President Sepp Blatter and correspondent Richard Conway. You can see the full 22-minuteQ&A here, or continue reading for selected highlights and analysis from Off The Post. View image | gettyimages.com We’ll start by going over the wide-ranging territory that Conway covers in his questioning. He […]
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FIFA Election: Chung paints Platini as Blatter insider
Chung Mong Joon is an old hand when it comes to FIFA politics — he served on the executive committee for 17 years and helped South Korea win the right toco-host the 2022 World Cup with Japan — but he is running as an outsider in his bid to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president. […]
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Organized Crime Museum Will Open FIFA Exhibit
Soccer’s global corruption scandal has become the subject of a new exhibit at Las Vegas’s Mob Museum, the Sin City tourist attraction that immortalizes the lurid history of the Americanunderworld. The museum said the permanent display — “The ‘Beautiful Game’ Turns Ugly” — would spotlight the twists and turns of the scandal that has seen […]
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Prince Ali: Platini's FIFA Candidacy "Not Good"
Former FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan described Michel Platini’s decision to stand for the FIFA Presidency in February’s election as “not good forFIFA.” Platini, the current UEFA president, announced his candidacy to replace the outgoing Sepp Blatter on Wednesday. “Platini is not good for FIFA,” said Ali, who lost his […]
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Blatter and Putin's Perfect Bromance
In the midst of all the Gold Cup hoopla this past weekend, you might have missed that far away in St. Petersburg, Russia, the preliminary draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place onSaturday. Off The Post didn’t watch it on TV, but apparently, a couple of important things happened. Among them: the USA […]