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Sepp Blatter’s Resignation Removes an Obstacle to FIFA Overhaul. The world governing body of soccer not only has to find a new president, it also has to change its culture, which is shrouded in ...
MUTTENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won again in court Tuesday and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors. Once soccer’s most powerful men ...
Blatter suggested he pay Platini the same amount FIFA’s general secretary got, 300,000 Swiss francs (£256,000) a year and they make a verbal “gentleman’s agreement” to round that up to ...
Blatter and Platini have claimed at five different judicial bodies — twice at FIFA, then the Court of Arbitration for Sport and now two Swiss federal criminal courts — they had a verbal ...
Blatter, then-president of the Zurich-based Federation Internationale de Football Association, and former French footballer star Michel Platini were cleared of corruption charges stemming out of ...
Blatter and Platini said that at the start they agreed orally, and without witnesses, on an annual salary of one million Swiss francs, but FIFA's financial state did not allow for immediate payment.
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 ...
Sepp Blatter says soccer tournament awarded to Qatar not the U.S. after pressure from corrupt French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who wanted huge fighter jet deal with Qatar.
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won again in court Tuesday and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors. Once soccer's most powerful men, former FIFA president Blatter and ...
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won again in court Tuesday and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors. Once soccer's most powerful men, former FIFA president Blatter and ...
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini acquitted again over financial wrongdoing at Fifa - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, the former Fifa president and former Uefa president, have now won twice in ...