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“What is a crisis? Football is not in a crisis. When you see the final of the Champions League then you must applaud. So we are not in a crisis, we are only in some difficulties.”

via Guardian Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, has faced down a barrage of criticism over corruption within football's governing body and vowed that only "the Fifa family" could prevent him being re-elected unopposed on Wednesday . "Crisis? What is a crisis?" asked Blatter, the day after a presidential election candidate and a Fifa ...

via Guardian The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has been summoned to appear on Sunday before the organisation's ethics committee alongside two of his most senior executive committee members as world football's governing body threatens to implode ahead of next week's presidential election. The 75-year-old will now appear alongside Mohamed bin ...

via Guardian Writing for the Inside World Football website, the Fifa president stated: "I take absolutely no joy in seeing my friends and colleagues of many years dragged before the ethics committee... I take no joy to see men who stood by my side for some two decades, suffer through public humiliation without having been convicted of any ...

Today the 12-man Football Association board decided that they wanted no part in voting in the FIFA presidential election due to lack of confidence in either one of the candidates. A brief statement from Chairman David Berstein shown on the FA website was released a short while ago: "The FA Board has today agreed to abstain in the vote for the ...

via Guardian Dear readers of Gazzetta dello Sport, What is this really about? In the case of Fifa's presidential elections we are not really talking about candidate A versus candidate B, but about whether in future there will be candidates at all. The election of 1 June could cause a tectonic movement with irreversible damage. What is at ...

Mohamed bin Hammam, the Fifa presidential challenger has challenged his rival and reigning president, Sepp Blatter, to a televised debate. The election for the new president will take place at Fifa's two-day congress in Zurich, which starts on 31 May. "Everybody has the right to an ambition but there is nothing to stop them contesting in 2015, I am ...

Speaking at a press conference at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters Bin Hammam said: "Today after careful study, consultation and consideration, armed with my love and passion for football, believing that our game is about fair competition, I have decided to contest.” "Mr Blatter is a very experienced person ... he has actually made ...