Fifa scandal
[LONDON] Interpol, the international police organisation, said it will stop taking funding from Fifa during an investigation of global soccer's governing body....
[LONDON] Fifa communications director Walter De Gregorio quit, as soccer's global governing body deals with investigations in the US and Switzerland....
[LONDON] Soccer's global governing body, FIFA, said it turned over electronic data from the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups yesterday to Swiss authorities....
[STRASBOURG, France] The European Parliament called on Thursday on Sepp Blatter to step down immediately as Fifa president and allow for an interim leader to launch reforms in football's...
[LAUSANNE] Fifa have handed over computer data to Swiss police investigating the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes and suspended bidding for the 2026 tournament as it remained at the centre of a...
FIFA will postpone the start of bidding for the right to host the 2026 World Cup following the launch of a corruption investigation, a senior official in soccer's governing body said on...
[LAUSANNE] Fifa announced on Wednesday it had suspended the bidding process to host the 2026 World Cup amid the furore surrounding corruption probes at the organisation.
[SAMARA, Russia] Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke Valcke on Wednesday dismissed allegations of wrongdoing over US$10 million in bank transactions that are under investigation by US authorities...
[LONDON] Scandal-hit Fifa is likely to elect a new president at a Dec 16 emergency meeting in Zurich, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
[SYDNEY] Football Federation Australia chairman Frank Lowy admitted Tuesday the country "never stood a chance" in bidding for the 2022 World Cup and denied it paid any bribes....
COMMENTARY
IF Russia and Qatar weren't feeling the jitters before, they surely will be now. The hosts of the Fifa World Cup in 2018 and 2022 respectively are facing the nightmare prospect of having the...
