Former FIFA executive committee member, Chuck Blazer, has been handed a lifetime ban from all football-related activity. The world governing…
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The FIFA official who picked the sites for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup games is suspended from all football-related…
FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, has claimed that there were “political interventions” from France and Germany during the voting process for…
World football-governing body, FIFA, has invited Nigeria’s legend Mercy Akide-Udoh to the 6th FIFA Women’s Football Symposium taking place in…
Sepp Blatter has hinted that he may make a renewed bid to hold on to his position as FIFA president,…
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, will be in Canada for the 6th FIFA Women’s Football Symposium…
The page on FIF website listing Keshi and 58 other applicants for the Elephants job has been taken down but the NFF insists that will not prevent “a full investigation”.
Former Brazil star, Zico, has already declared his interest in running in the election, which is expected to be held between December and February
Blatter, 79, announced on June 2 that he would stand down as FIFA president, only four days after he was re-elected to the position, saying he had lost the mandate from the entire world of soccer
In a separate investigation led by US authorities, several football officials, including former FIFA executives, have been arrested or faced extradition proceedings on various charges of corruption and conspiracy
The board of the Nobel Peace Centre said on Monday it wished to end its formal cooperation with football’s scandal-plagued…
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However, a statement released by FIFA has claimed that Blatter has not had a change of heart following his decision to resign earlier this month
According to Swiss paper, Schweiz am Sonntag, an anonymous source close to Blatter has claimed that support from African and Asian federations has forced a re-think from the outgoing president
De Gregorio was responsible for conducting FIFA’s initial press conference after a number of officials from world football’s governing body had been arrested in Zurich ahead of last month’s FIFA Congress
The official opposition Democratic Alliance welcomed the chance to seek answers from the Minister, saying the individuals implicated in authorising the payment from FIFA to CONCACAF are in a far better place to provide the answers the South African public are seeking
Adamu who is also a former president of the West Africa Football Union, said all through his stay in FIFA, he never asked for cash in return for his vote the way the FIFA boss and his other top placed executives had done for years as exposed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe and Chuck Blazer’s confessional statements
Swiss prosecutors are investigating alleged financial irregularities around the awarding of the events to Russia and Qatar respectively
The money, sent on behalf of South Africa, was meant to be used for its Caribbean diaspora legacy programme
In a statement by the club, signed by the President General, Rafiu Ladipo, the club noted that it is unfortunate that out of the 170 visa applications released by the embassy, only 19 members were issued with visa, not minding that many of them had travelled to many countries in the past