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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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...