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(Deadspin) – Good news broke today, and that news is that Switzerland has opened a criminal investigation against Sepp Blatter, the current FIFA president who just...
(Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon said on Wednesday that payments he made to Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 were “charitable donations” and any attempt to use...
Yvette Caslin, ROLLING OUT (RollingOut.com) — FIFA Women’s World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist, Sydney Rae Leroux Dwyer, 25, is making headlines. Playing in...
(CNN) – FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said Wednesday that FIFA would “postpone” the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, as investigations continue into allegations...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — In one moment, Jack Warner is on TV telling his countrymen he fears for his life. An...
(BBC) – Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has said in a TV address that he will reveal all he knows about corruption at world football’s governing...
ROB HARRIS, AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Sepp Blatter and his mentor Joao Havelange have run global soccer’s governing body since 1974, handing out power...
GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer FIFA President Sepp Blatter will resign from soccer’s governing body amid a widening corruption scandal and promised Tuesday to call for...
ZURICH (AP) — A report says the high-ranking FIFA official who allegedly made a $10-million payment central to a U.S. probe into soccer corruption is believed...
GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) — Sepp Blatter was re-elected as FIFA president for a fifth term on Friday, chosen to lead world soccer...
(BBC) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has told an emergency meeting of football’s governing body he will not quit, amid growing political pressure over a corruption scandal....
(BBC) – America does not even like football, or so many people think. Why is it leading the charge against alleged FIFA corruption? At dawn, Swiss police...
The Associated Press The indictment of soccer officials and marketing and TV executives Wednesday alleges 12 schemes: SCHEME A — 1993, 1995 AND 1997 COPA AMERICAS...
(Politico) – For almost six months, Loretta Lynch was known mostly as the woman who couldn’t get an up-or-down vote on her nomination as attorney...
GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) — Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA on Wednesday, only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and...
(BBC) – The head of Fifa’s anti-racism task force says racism in English football is “right in front of your face”. Jeffrey Webb said discrimination was...
(Time) – Talk of Qatar losing the tournament makes complete sense, but in the crazy world of FIFA it probably will never happen. The Twittersphere...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — FIFA President Sepp Blatter has criticized the way discrimination incidents were dealt with at World Cup matches. Blatter says “I...