Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOCARNO — “Something is moving in the local film industry,” said on-the-rise Swiss director Lisa Blatter. To wit: “New companies ...

Sepp Blatter served 17 years (1998-2015) as the president of FIFA, which is in a perpetual battle with the International Olympic Committee for the title of most corrupt sports governing body in the ...

Sepp Blatter is back at Fifa. Almost eight and a half years since he last inhabited the most powerful seat in world football, the “Godfather” of the modern game has returned to the Fifa House he built ...

MUTTENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter distanced himself from corruption in soccer when he went on trial Monday for the second time alongside his one-time protege Michel ...

Disgraced former head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter has vowed to clear his name after he was banned from all football-related activities for corruption. Last week, I reported that FIFA’s ethics committee ...

GENEVA — Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors on Tuesday after a six-year investigation into a controversial $2 million ...

BELLINZONA, Switzerland — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer’s ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter spent a week in an induced coma after having heart surgery in December, his family said Thursday. The 84-year-old Blatter, who also tested positive for COVID-19 late ...

LONDON (AP) Sepp Blatter and his mentor Joao Havelange have run global's soccer's governing body since 1974, handing out power to national federations and regional chiefs who awarded the men with ...

Blatter, who led FIFA for 17 years, is cleared of fraud by the Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona. Platini, a former France national team captain and manager, also acquitted of ...

reporting from Zurich — Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini, the man who had been favored to take over as FIFA leader, were suspended for 90 days Thursday, plunging soccer’s governing body ...

FIFA’s former president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini have been cleared of corruption charges following a fraud trial in Switzerland. The pair stood trial over a payment of 2 million ...