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Brazil

Ex-FIFA president Joao Havelange dies in Rio aged 100

The head of international football’s governing body from 1974 to 1998, Joao Havelange, has died at the age of 100 in his hometown Rio de Janeiro.

16/08/2016

Business Series

Cheaper 2018 World Cup tickets announced for Russians

Prices have been announced for the 2018 World Cup tickets in Russia. For the final they will cost the equivalent of almost 1,000 euros, but there will be cheaper tickets just for Russians.

06/07/2016

Sport

FIFA lawyers accuse Blatter, Valcke and Kattner of profiteering

Lawyers acting for FIFA claim disgraced former president Sepp Blatter, ex-secretary general Jerome Valcke and his former deputy Markus Kattner wrongly profited by some 70 million euros over the past f

03/06/2016

Sport

FIFA sack deputy secretary general Kattner

Scandal-hit FIFA has fired its deputy secretary general, Markus Kattner, with immediate effect, after he was accused of paying himself bonuses worth millions of…

23/05/2016

Sport

Niersbach to face two-year ban from football

FIFA’s ethics committee has been told by investigators that a two-year ban from football for the former director of the German football association for violations of the code of conduct is…

20/05/2016

Sport

FIFA audit and compliance chief quits over reforms

FIFA’s new president Gianni Infantino is facing his first major test. The global football body’s audit and compliance chief has quit in protest at

14/05/2016

Sport

Samoura becomes first female FIFA secretary general

Senegal’s Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura has been appointed as Fifa’s first female secretary general. The 54-year-old succeeds former secretary general

14/05/2016

Mexico

African woman becomes new secretary general of crisis-hit FIFA

An African woman has been named as FIFA’s new secretary general, as the global soccer ruling body tries to move on from a corruption scandal

13/05/2016

Sport

Former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb facing life ban from football

Disgraced former CONCACAF president Jeffery Webb is facing a lifetime ban from all football-related activity after FIFA’s ethics committee opened up

04/05/2016

World News

Will Michel Platini be back in charge for Euro 2016?

The suspended UEFA president must wait to see if a second appeal against his six-year FIFA ban has been successful

29/04/2016

World News

'A new game, a final': UEFA's Platini makes last appeal against six-year ban

Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini arrived early on Friday morning for what was arguably the match of his life, at least off the pitch: an

29/04/2016

Liberia

Africanews exclusive: George Weah will run again for Liberia’s presidency

George Weah, the only African footballer to win FIFA’s World Player of the Year award, will make a second bid to become president of Liberia, he told

22/04/2016

Sport

Fifa boss Infantino meets Putin in Moscow ahead of 2018 World Cup

New Fifa boss Gianni Infantino has held meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

20/04/2016

World News

FIFA chief, Gianni Infantino, dragged into Panama Papers scandal

He was elected as head of FIFA with a promise to clean up football’s world governing body. Yet files seen by the Guardian newspapers in the Panama

05/04/2016

Sport

"Panama papers" pick out stars and top officials in football

No stranger to the spotlight, the world of football figures firmly in the “Panama papers” with players and top officials in the game’s governing body

04/04/2016

Sport

Franz Beckenbauer one of six facing corruption probe into 2006 World Cup

The Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer, is one of six men under investigation in a corruption probe into Germany's ''2006 World Cup bid'':https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup.

22/03/2016

Business Series

Corruption scandal pushes FIFA to $122 mln loss for 2015

With corruption related legal costs mounting and sponsors bailing out FIFA has announced it suffered big losses in 2015.

18/03/2016

Sport

FIFA: a victim? Or simply shifting the blame?

Gianni Infantino has been in charge of FIFA for just two weeks, but he’s already taking steps to right the alleged wrongs carried out under the

16/03/2016

World News

FIFA demands millions from ex-officials charged with graft

World football's governing body says its reputation and business interests have been damaged by being implicated in sport's biggest corruption scandal.

16/03/2016

World News

FIFA says members "sold their votes" in past World Cup hosting contests

Soccer’s governing body FIFA said on Wednesday that members of its executive committee had in the past sold their votes in World Cup hosting

16/03/2016