FIFA’s former chief ethics investigator, Cornel Borbely speaks to media during a press conference ahead of the 67th FIFA Congress in Manama Bahrain, May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed Ousted FIFA Ethics investigator Cornel Borbely said on Wednesday his com... More »
FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, September 3, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Picture Supplied by Action Images Chung Mong-joon is taking his fight against a lengthy ban from soccer to the Court of Ar... More »
An effigy of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is burnt as part of bonfire night celebrations in Edenbridge, Britain November 5, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall He turned “You’re fired” into his reality show catch-phrase, but it was Donald Trump who ... More »
NEW YORK FIFA President Sepp Blatter and its Secretary General Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered U.S. lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer’s global governing body. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the l... More »
BERNE Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s embattled president, has hired a high-powered U.S. lawyer to represent him, a source said on Wednesday as a corruption probe engulfs soccer’s global governing body with Swiss authorities identifying suspicious bank transactions. Blat... More »
LOS ANGELES At the first screening of FIFA-funded film “United Passions” in Los Angeles the week after U.S. prosecutors charged several officials of world soccer’s governing body, only two people attended – one out of curiosity, the other as a soccer fan. The ... More »
NEW YORK U.S. prosecutors believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA’s... More »
NEW YORK U.S. prosecutors believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA’s... More »
LONDON A new system of match observers monitoring incidents of racism and discrimination at 2018 World Cup qualifiers was announced by FIFA on Tuesday. The system will be co-ordinated by world soccer’s ruling body and implemented in co-operation with the Europ... More »
DEAD SEA, Jordan (Reuters) – Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein suggested on Monday that one candidate rather than three might have a better chance of beating FIFA president Sepp Blatter in this month’s elections but said he had no intention of withdrawing from the rac... More »
