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FIFA needs top-to-bottom overhaul if it is to survive
That Blatter did not step down immediately defies belief. Even more incredible is the prospect that he would head FIFA’s reformation, especially now that he may be implicated as a result of the current international criminal investigations.
Game changing transformations are possible, but not usually with the same people leading the change. Humans by their very nature re-create circumstances around them that are familiar and within which they maintain control. They do not give control to others and dislike change, even though they might pay lip-service to it. read more
The Age
June 4, 2015 – 8:39 AM DST
Ex-FIFA official threatens to spill ‘avalanche’ of secrets
“Blatter knows why he fell. And if anyone else knows, I do,” Warner said in his home country of Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday,
During a rambling and sometimes incoherent seven-minute television address, called “The Gloves Are Off,” Warner invoked Mahatma Gandhi and sought to cast himself as a victim. read more
The Age
June 5, 2015 – 8:39 AM DST
FIFA Paid Ireland Not to Protest Costly Hand Ball
Mr. Henry admitted what he had done. “I will be honest, it was a hand ball,” he said. “But I’m not the ref. I played it. The ref allowed it.”
Citing a confidentiality agreement, Mr. Delaney on Thursday refused to confirm the amount of the payment, but he chuckled and complimented the interviewer, Ray D’Arcy, after Mr. D’Arcy suggested a figure of “five million.” read more
New York TImes
June 4, 2015 – 11:20 EST
Bribery Inquiry Drawing Closer to FIFA’s President
Mr. Jordaan said the money was sent to the accounts of Concacaf, a FIFA entity that oversees soccer in North and Central America, as part of South Africa’s effort to support soccer there.
Mr. Valcke and Mr. Blatter are the two top officials in FIFA, an organization that has more than $1 billion in the bank and generates billions more each year. Mr. Valcke’s involvement is sure to raise more questions about what Mr. Blatter knew about the money transfer.
New York TImes
2015-06-01, 10:55:20 PM
Telegraph Live Blog
The scandal has reached Australia with local politicians wanting to investigate what happened to £250,000 the country paid for a stadium upgrade which has allegedly disappeared. Nick Xenophon, an independent senator wants the Australian football association to pursue the missing cash.
2015-05-28 11:06:34 AM
London, May 27 – Updates following Swiss police raids five-star hotel in Zurich as Fifa members gather for presidential election.
2015-05-27
Seeking Extradition, U.S. Alleges Fraud
As leaders of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, gathered for their annual meeting, more than a dozen plain-clothed Swiss law enforcement officials arrived unannounced at the Baur au Lac hotel, an elegant five-star property with views of the Alps and Lake Zurich. They went to the front desk to get keys and proceeded upstairs to the rooms.
New York Times
2015-05-27 3:40:48 AM
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FIFA arrests stuns but not surprise football world
BY KYLE ANDREW BROWN
“It is a difficult time for football and FIFA,” says Sepp Blatter the four time president of football’s governing body after the end of an astonishing day in Zurich. Eleven of his confederates were arrested by Swiss police in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The New York Times scooped the American press in its early East Coast editions. It reported police went to Zurich’s luxurious Baur au Lac hotel before where the execs were gathered for the annual meeting of the International Football Federation.
Fourteen indictments “are just the beginning, said Brooklyn federal prosecutor, Kelly Currie, at a press conference attended by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
She said the 2010 World Cup awarded to South Africa was corrupted. Defendants “corrupted the world football affairs to enrich themselves,” accuses Loretta Lynch. “This is the World Cup of fraud, said Richard Weber, a senior US Treasury. Today we issued the red card.”
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