Tag: FIFA
Swiss FIFA inquiry receives more ‘suspicious activity’ – Reports
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland now has 81 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to FIFA’s decisions to let Russia and…
Knocks for FIFA over horribly flawed ranking system
FIFA published its monthly world rankings for July, and it’s even more inexplicable than usual, reports Business Insider. We’ll get…
Nigeria Crash To 57th Place On FIFA Ranking
Taiwo Adelu It was a free fall for Nigeria on the latest ranking for the month of July as released…
FIFA bans Chuck Blazer for life
FIFA’s independent ethics committee has banned former executive committee member and whistle blower Chuck Blazer from all football-related activity for…
FIFA bans head of World Cup committee for seven years
Zurich (AFP) – Football’s world body on Monday banned the former head of the FIFA evaluation committee for the 2018…
Onigbinde For U-17 Teslim Balogun Tourney Clinic
Sunday Akintoye FIFA and CAF instructor, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, will be among the resource persons who will give lectures at…
Why Falcons, Flying Eagles Failed At World Cups
FIFA licensed agent Princely Nwanfor in this interview gives reasons the Super Falcons and the Flying Eagles crashed out of…
Maradona to contest FIFA presidency
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has decided to stand as a candidate for the FIFA presidency to replace Sepp Blatter,…
Banks did not do enough to police FIFA transactions, says global agency
REUTERS – A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious…
Blatter backs German proposal for FIFA integrity checks
LONDON (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has endorsed a German proposal for stronger integrity checks to vet top soccer…
FIFA: Swiss prosecutors investigates 53 suspicious bank transactions
BERNE (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors investigating corruption at global soccer body FIFA have identified 53 suspicious bank transactions, the attorney…
Corruption: Nobel Peace Centre to end partnership with FIFA
The board of the Nobel Peace Centre said on Monday it wished to end its formal cooperation with football’s scandal-plagued…
FIFA U-20 World Cup: Mali, Senegal power through to semi-finals
Mali and Senegal, the two remaining African teams at the ongoing 2015 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, early…
FIFA delays bidding for 2026 World Cup amid corruption scandal
FIFA would delay the bidding to host the 2026 World Cup because of a high-profile investigation into alleged corruption at…
Blatter, FIFA And The Beautiful Game
By Tayo Ogunbiyi After seventeen years of holding sway as the boss of the apex global soccer governing body, FIFA,…
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BBC outlines details of Jack Warner’s bribe transactions
A BBC investigation has seen evidence that details what happened to the $10m sent from Fifa to accounts controlled by…
Venezuelan authorities raid local FA amid FIFA scandal
Secret Service Agents on Thursday raided the headquarters of the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) in Caracas, in the wake of…
FIFA Fraud: Warner Vows To Expose All
Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, a central figure in world football’s deepening scandal, has vowed to tell investigators all…
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BREAKING: Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA President
Sepp Blatter says he will resign as president of football’s governing body Fifa amid a corruption scandal. In announcing his…
African Officials Suspended Over FIFA Fraud
CONCACAF’s General Secretary, Enrique Sanz and two soccer officials from Africa were provisionally banned by FIFA’s ethics committee yesterday as…
Valcke not involved in $10 million payment – FIFA
ZURICH (Reuters) – FIFA issued a statement on Tuesday denying the secretary general Jerome Valcke or any of its senior…
NFF is not corrupt, says Pinnick
The Nigeria Football Association (NFF) says it has zero tolerance for corrupt practices as well as any form of high-handedness…
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Sepp Blatter elected FIFA President for 5th Term
Zurich (AFP) – Sepp Blatter won the FIFA presidency for a fifth time Friday after his challenger Prince Ali bin…
FIFA tells Nigerian referees to forget officiating at World Cup
Carlos Henriques, FIFA Referee Development Officer, has called on Nigerian referees to forget about World Cup officiating ambition for now.…
UEFA saddened by FIFA officials arrest
European football body UEFA on Wednesday expressed astonishment and sadness over the arrests of leading FIFA and other football officials…
List of indicted and arrested football officials
Nine current and former football officials have been indicted on corruption charges by the US Justice Department, just as world…
FIFA to go ahead with presidential election in spite of arrests
FIFA spokesman, Walter De-Gregorio, said at a news conference in Zurich on Wednesday that the body planned to go ahead…
U-20 World Cup: FIFA, LOC to receive Nigeria delegation on Tuesday
A group consisting of officials of world football –governing body, FIFA and members of the local organizing committee of the…
FIFA candidates challenging Blatter targeted in blackmail scam
Singapore (AFP) – Two men who launched challenges to Sepp Blatter for the leadership of world football body FIFA have…
‘Keshi Will Fail Nigeria Again’
Former Nigerian international, Jonathan Akpoborie, said on Brila FM early today that Chief Coach of the Super Eagles Stephen Keshi…