The terrifying bromance of Sepp Blatter, Vladimir Putin
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin and Sepp Blatter just can’t stop praising each other. The Russian president, speaking with Swiss TV on Monday, said the embattled head of FIFA deserves a...
View ArticleSepp Blatter criminal takedown begins as Swiss target FIFA
ZURICH — FIFA president Sepp Blatter was interrogated by Swiss federal police on Friday and faces criminal charges over alleged financial corruption. Switzerland’s attorney general’s office said Friday...
View ArticleFIFA bans Sepp Blatter for 90 days
An internal watchdog panel slapped embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter with a 90-day suspension Thursday, citing ethics violations. Blatter, European soccer chief Michael Francois Platini and FIFA...
View ArticleFIFA’s latest purge leaves it only a little less filthy
World soccer got a little less filthy on Thursday, as FIFA — the Fédération Internationale de Football Association — suspended President Sepp Blatter and a host of other officials for...
View ArticleHow FIFA’s Sepp Blatter covers his TASS
All that ugly news about corruption at FIFA, the outfit that runs global soccer? It’s really just politics — or so the odious Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s suspended head, insisted in an interview last week....
View ArticleFIFA vice presidents arrested in corruption case
Brooklyn federal prosecutors widened their probe of soccer’s ruling body Thursday with the arrest of two more top bosses during a predawn operation at a Swiss hotel. Alfredo Hawit, the head of...
View ArticleSepp Blatter, Michel Platini banned from soccer for 8 years
ZURICH — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were each banned for eight years by the FIFA ethics committee on Monday in a stunning removal of world soccer’s most powerful leaders. FIFA President Blatter...
View ArticleCleaning up FIFA sleaze will take more than banning Blatter
FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, is eyeball-deep in a huge corruption scandal — yet its president, Sepp Blatter, has no idea why the organization just banned him and another top official for eight...
View ArticleFIFA passes reform to limit president’s power
FIFA members have passed wide-ranging reforms to protect against corruption and curb the powers of its new president. Needing a 75 percent majority for approval, 89 percent voted yes. FIFA says the...
View ArticleGianni Infantino’s meteoric, stunning rise to FIFA president
ZURICH — New FIFA President Gianni Infantino is like the substitute who came off the bench to score the winning goal in a cup final to stun the favorites. When Infantino stepped on the Zurich stage on...
View Article‘Amateurish’ FIFA movie scores just $607 on opening weekend
“Pulp Fiction” actor Tim Roth takes a turn as Blatter; Sam Neill and Gerard Depardieu also star. Sunday’s take could bump the opening total to a still paltry $1,000, a source told Bloomberg. FIFA...
View ArticleFIFA’s search for Blatter replacement to begin in July
Scandal-hit FIFA will hold an extraordinary executive committee meeting in July to discuss dates for the election to replace president Sepp Blatter, who announced his resignation next week. Soccer’s...
View ArticleFIFA scandal has nothing on sham that is big-time college hoops
It’s all a con. Here a FIFA, there a FIFA, everywhere a FIFA, FIFA. It’s like the window sign on Tourist Trap Row: “Why get cheated elsewhere?” This week, on the (tar) heels of revelations of 18 years...
View ArticleSepp Blatter may not step down after all
LONDON — Sepp Blatter was warned from within FIFA on Sunday not to attempt to backtrack on his pledge to quit as president. Domenico Scala, who is overseeing the presidential election, said that a...
View ArticleHeckler makes it rain on Sepp Blatter in comic FIFA stunt
ZURICH — FIFA president Sepp Blatter was showered with paper money by a heckler before the start of a press conference on Monday announcing the end of the corrupt honcho’s term running global soccer....
View ArticleFIFA probe lands first guilty plea
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The sprawling American investigation of bribery and corruption in international soccer has reached into Asia and claimed the first guilty plea from a senior official in the new...
View ArticleHope Solo: Sepp Blatter ‘grabbed my ass’ at soccer awards
Sepp Blatter’s list of wrongdoings is lengthy, and now the disgraced former FIFA president is accused of sexual assault. Hope Solo, the longtime U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper, told the...
View ArticleFIFA accuses ex-boss Sepp Blatter, others of ‘criminal mismanagement’
FIFA on Tuesday accused former president Sepp Blatter and others of "criminal mismanagement" over their handling of a $565 million museum project.
View ArticleBlatter and Platini acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday.
View ArticleFormer FIFA president says picking Qatar as World Cup host was a ‘mistake’
Picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago, FIFA’s president at the time Sepp Blatter said Tuesday, again citing a meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Platini for swaying key...
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