A criminal case into Infantino’s conduct was opened on Thursday over his meetings with the country’s attorney general, who had been leading a sprawling investigation into football corruption.
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Swiss authorities said on Thursday that proceedings had been launched against the current FIFA boss by a special prosecutor
Swiss authorities said on Thursday that proceedings had been launched against the current FIFA boss by a special prosecutor looking into meetings he had with the Swiss Attorney-General, Michael Lauber.
FIFA’s plan means world football’s governing body will dip into its reserves to provide national federations with a number of grants and interest-free loans to cope with budget hits
In the vote by the FIFA Council, Australia and New Zealand beat Colombia 22-13 to host the tournament, which is being expanded to 32 teams.
“Let’s not forget that there needs always to be a place for fans,” the head of the sport’s world governing body said in a video message to FIFA’s 211 member-nations.
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has warned against re-starting football competitions too early amid the Coronavirus pandemic.
Football will be totally different when it eventually resumes after the coronavirus outbreak, the head of global body FIFA Gianni Infantino said on Thursday.
The FIFA president said the success of this year’s women’s World Cup showed that there was an appetite for top level competition and that new tournaments needed to be created.
While foreign women have been allowed limited access to matches, Iranian women have been banned from stadiums when men’s teams have been playing, since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
In a letter addressed to the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, Infantino described Enyimba’s triumph as a “great achievement” that only could have been recorded through “effort and hardwork.”
FIFA last month took the unprecedented move of announcing it would jointly administer African football with CAF and would send its Senegalese Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura, on a ninth-month secondment to overhaul the African body.
This was as the US fans demanded equal pay for the players after their team claimed a fourth global title by beating The Netherlands 2-0.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino will need quick approval from ruling bodies to enlarge the Women’s World Cup, with bidding already underway for the 2023 edition.
Lindsey Kelly had said she tried to raise complaints about allegations of a number of her players being abused by officials from the Afghanistan Football Federation in early 2018.
The Egyptians did not disappoint with a well choreographed and technological propelled opening ceremony on Friday night.
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has ramped up the pressure on Iran to ensure local female football fans are allowed to attend men’s World Cup qualifiers in the Islamic Republic later this year.
The person said the African Football Confederation president was detained for questioning on Thursday morning in the French capital
Gianni Infantino was re-elected FIFA president unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body in Paris on Wednesday.
He succeeded Sepp Blatter in 2016 and has increased the number of teams at the 2026 World Cup and proposed key changes to the Club World Cup