Figo to stand against Blatter for FIFA presidency

Luis Figo has announced he will stand against Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency. The 42-year-old former Portugal international and world footballer ... image of FIFA - not only now but in ... Read More

Fifa President Sepp Blatter is out, so should corrupt football bosses

After months of stubbornly hanging onto his coveted seat, Fifa President Sepp Blatter finally agreed to step down. But this was not ... plenty of support to sustain his stay in the world’s ... Read More

Blatter Ready to Run Again for FIFA Presidency

(ATR) Sepp Blatter ... not "swoop in unannounced" on FIFA Exco members or others involved involved in the controversial December 2010 vote. Russia and Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 World ... Read More

Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, 88, reveals he experienced 'hallucinations' of 'angels coming for me' while in an induced coma after undergoing heart surgery

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter ... World Cup would likely never return to England in his life-time, claiming the English game is 'too successful'. He said: 'I would say, in my life, I will not ... Read More

FIFA plans to add slew of new committees years after cutting them in anti-corruption reforms

FIFA is set to create dozens of new committees and expert panels which would reverse a governance reform passed in 2016. Read More

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA

“Believe me, going from being a legend of world soccer to a devil is very difficult, especially when it comes to you in a totally unfair way,” Platini added. Both Blatter and ... Platini did not ... Read More

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter calls Qatar World Cup a 'mistake,' should have gone to United States

Citing the size of the country, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter criticized the decision ... in past year in the lead-up to the World Cup. Qatar did not have the infrastructure in place to ... Read More

Smiling Blatter enters court at start of Fifa fraud trial

former Fifa president Blatter sat alone on a long bench while one of his lawyers addressed the three judges on the opening day of his criminal trial. Once the most powerful man in the world of ... Read More

Israeli soccer facing Palestinian calls for action by FIFA at annual congress

Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be stepped up by Palestinian officials at the annual FIFA congress next month. The Palestine Football ... Read More

Sepp Blatter interview: ‘I don’t want anything special – just a thank you’

Sepp Blatter is back at Fifa. Almost eight and a half years since he last inhabited the most powerful seat in world football ... flair for the theatrical. “Not president,” he says when ... Read More

Blatter and Platini acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA

Sepp Blatter ... not give up and I will go all the way in my quest for truth.” The case was centred around a two million dollar (£1.6 million) payment from FIFA to Platini with former FIFA ... Read More