Archive for the 'Sepp Blatter' Category

November 16th, 2011

Video – FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s Take On Racism In The Game – ‘I Would Deny It’

FIFA President Sepp Blatter talks to CNN's Pedro Pinto about FIFA reforms and whether Racism in football is a problem...... Check out Sepp Blatter's Comment on Racism in the Game after the Jump....... (more...)
November 7th, 2011

Forbes Names FIFA President Sepp Blatter #63 Of World’s Most Powerful People

Forbes Names FIFA's Sepp Blatter #63 World's Most Powerful People via FIFA FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter has retained his place on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 70 most powerful people. The Swiss has risen two places to 63rd on the annual compilation, which is topped by the USA’s president Barack Obama. Impressively, Blatter ...
October 18th, 2011

Jack Warner Goes Public With Warnings To FIFA President Sepp Blatter

Jack Warner's Public Warning To FIFA President Sepp Blatter via DailyMail 'I have promised in the past a tsunami that would hit the FIFA, and indeed, it will come,' said disgraced former FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner, who was on FIFA's ruling executive committee for 28 years. A verdict in bin Hammam's appeal to CAS is not expected for several ...
September 2nd, 2011

Sepp Blatter for Beach Soccer as an Olympic event in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro ?

via fifa.com On Thursday, 1 September, an official press conference took place ahead of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2011 in Ravenna/Italy, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter had some interesting comments on beach soccer: "15 years ago I visited an international Beach Soccer tournament on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. We realized back ...
August 29th, 2011

Sepp Blatter Has His Own Opinion On England’s FIFA Accusations

via Guardian Sepp Blatter has accused England of attempting to "destroy" Fifa in revenge for losing the Fifa presidency in 1974. "This animosity comes from England," said Blatter. "The timing of the accusations is interesting. It was just around the time when they failed to win hosting rights to the 2018 World Cup. Three weeks before the ...
July 6th, 2011

FIFA Ethic’s Committee To Meet On July 22-23 Over Mohamed Bin Hammam Bribery Charges

via FIFA The FIFA Ethics Committee will meet on 22 and 23 July to examine the cases of Mohamed bin Hammam, Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester, who were provisionally suspended by the Ethics Committee on 29 May 2011 in relation to an alleged breach of the FIFA Code of Ethics and the FIFA Disciplinary Code (see media release : "Two members of the ...
June 2nd, 2011

Video: Sepp Blatter on a “new period of FIFA transparency”

The re-elected Sepp Blatter outlines a few of the things he wants to see going forward for the football organization that has come under tremendous scrutiny in the last couple of months.
June 1st, 2011

FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter Re-Elected For A Fourth Term

via FIFA FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term of office until 2015 by the 61st FIFA Congress, held today in Zurich. A clear majority of 186 member associations voted in favour of the incumbent president, who will remain at the head of world football’s governing body for the next four years. In total, 203 ballots ...