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CONMEBOL urges new era free of corruption
AFP, Published on 15/09/2016
» LIMA - South America's football chief called for a new era free of corruption Wednesday as the region's scandal-plagued governing body CONMEBOL passed a package of reforms designed to root out graft.
Ceferin comes from nowhere to land UEFA presidency
AFP, Published on 14/09/2016
» LJUBLJANA - New UEFA boss Aleksander Ceferin has been a high profile lawyer in his native Slovenia but had no record in football until he took over his country's football federation in 2011.
Disgraced ex-CONCACAF president Webb banned for life
AFP, Published on 10/09/2016
» ZURICH - Former CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb has been banned from all football-related activities for life by the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA's Ethics Committee, world football's governing body confirmed on Friday.
Sepp Blatter faces new FIFA probe
AFP, Published on 09/09/2016
» ZURICH - Banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his former chief lieutenants were under investigation Friday over illicit bonuses totalling $80 million (71mn euros), FIFA's ethics committee said.
Spain's Villar withdraws bid for UEFA top job
AFP, Published on 07/09/2016
» MADRID - Angel Maria Villar, the head of Spain's football association, announced Tuesday he had withdrawn his bid to replace the banned Michel Platini as president of UEFA.
Franz Beckenbauer cancels Swiss trip amid investigation
AFP, Published on 02/09/2016
» BERLIN - Franz Beckenbauer on Friday cancelled a public appointment in Zurich as Swiss prosecutors investigate corruption allegations over the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany.
Swiss allegations tarnish crown of 'the Kaiser'
AFP, Published on 01/09/2016
» BERLIN - In football-obsessed Germany, Franz Beckenbauer is referred to as "the Kaiser" -- the regal defender who steered his country to World Cup triumphs as both a player and a manager.
Blatter in last fight against FIFA ban
AFP, Published on 24/08/2016
» GENEVA - Sepp Blatter will mount his final challenge against his six-year FIFA ban on Thursday, following more than a year of scandal that saw him thrown out of football in disgrace.
Brazil's Havelange, longtime FIFA chief, dead: hospital
AFP, Published on 16/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Joao Havelange, Brazil's corruption-tainted former FIFA president who helped bring the Olympic Games to Rio, has died at the age of 100, a hospital spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday.
After all Rio's drama, clean up the Games
News, Editorial, Published on 14/08/2016
» In the first week of the Rio Olympics we have already seen the "good, the bad and the ugly" of the world's greatest sporting carnival.