In a letter sent to world football’s governing body lawyers acting for FNV and Alam have given Fifa’s new president, Gianni Infantino, three weeks to accept its complicity and pay damages before going to court. If the action is successful it could open the door for hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to make similar … [Read more…]
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…]
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 >>
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Michel Platini has formally withdrawn his candidacy for the Fifa presidency and said he will dedicate himself to overturning his eight-year ban.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…]
A report published in February by the anti-discrimination group FARE found more than 200 incidents of racist and discriminatory behaviour linked to Russian football over two seasons. The Russian government disputes the figures. Read the full article >>
Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president after 17 years in role. • Successor will be chosen at extraordinary general meeting of FIFA • Blatter to stay until next president is elected between December and March The Guardian >>