By Amnesty International, 30 March 2016 “Migrant workers on Khalifa International Stadium and the surrounding Aspire Zone, one of the main venues for the 2022 World Cup, have been subjected to a range of exploitative practices. This includes high recruitment fees for which many took out loans; false promises about the pay and type of … [Read more…]
The aggregate remuneration for the members of the Executive Committee, the President, the Secretary General and the FIFA management, in particular the directors, for the financial year 2015 amounts to USD 27.900.000 (228 000 000 MSEK). Read more in FIFA’s FINANCIAL AND GOVERNANCE REPORT 2015 >>
As part of a claim Fifa effectively confirms for the first time that it believes its senior executive committee members were guilty of bribery on a grand scale by selling their World Cup votes on multiple occasions. Read more on fifa.com >>
Gianni Infantino was on February 26 elected as the President of FIFA for the remainder of the current term of office (until 2019) by the Extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich. He was elected as the ninth FIFA President after the second ballot with 115 of 207 total votes. read more on fifa.com >> “Switzerland is … [Read more…]
Jérôme Valcke, the suspended secretary general of Fifa and Sepp Blatter’s long-time associate, has been sacked with immediate effect.
Michel Platini has formally withdrawn his candidacy for the Fifa presidency and said he will dedicate himself to overturning his eight-year ban.
Jérôme Valcke, the former right-hand man to the banned Fifa president Sepp Blatter, is facing a possible nine-year suspension from football after Fifa’s investigators said he had violated nine counts of its ethics code.
Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini, have been banned from football for eight years, ending the career of the former and definitively derailing the vaulting ambitions of the latter. The Fifa ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, has ruled that both men should be banned despite … [Read more…]
Fifa bans former vice-president of Asian Football Confederation – Nepal FA president Ganesh Thapa for 10 years over bribery. One of the most influential figures in Asian football over the last two decades has been banned for 10 years for bribery by Fifa’s ethics committee. Ganesh Thapa, president of the All-Nepal FA and a former Asian … [Read more…]
Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup, rejected claims that a slush fund had been set up to buy votes and bring the tournament to Germany back in 2000. The DFB said on Friday its own investigation had found no wrongdoing in the process of being awarded the 2006 World Cup … [Read more…]