The FIFA President believes that other national associations of the Old World should learn from the experience of the Russian Federation in introducing the limit on legionnaires in their championships. According to the Daily Mail, citing the Swiss material in the weekly FIFA magazine, the head of the International Football Federation asked the others ...
The International Football Federation (FIFA) has filed a lawsuit against British comedian Simon Brodkin, who disrupted Joseph Blatter's press conference by throwing banknotes at the head of the federation. The incident took place at the very beginning of the press conference. Brodkin, acting under the pseudonym Lee Nelson, approached ...
British comedian Simon Brodkin threw a wad of dollars in the face of acting FIFA President Joseph Blatter. The incident occurred before the start of Blatter's press conference in Zurich, dedicated to the results of the FIFA executive committee held on Monday. The start of the event had to be postponed to a later date. "Here…
FIFA has rejected a request from the US Senate Commission to interrogate the organization's president, Joseph Blatter, in a corruption scandal case, said Senator Jerry Moran's spokesman Garrett Turner. Blatter, who has headed FIFA since 1998, was re-elected for a fifth term on May 29 amid a corruption scandal that resulted in a number of high-ranking ...
The US authorities have sent a request to Swiss law enforcement agencies to extradite FIFA officials detained earlier as part of a high-profile corruption case investigation. According to the Swiss Ministry of Justice and Police, the request has already been received. At the same time, the materials received from the United States have not yet been considered. ...
The President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Joseph Blatter in an interview with the German newspaper Bunte said that people accusing him of corruption should be held responsible for libel. “Anyone who accuses me of corruption must first prove it. Nobody can do this, because ...
Acting President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Joseph Blatter said he did not resign as head of the organization. “I didn’t resign, but entrusted my future to the extraordinary congress of FIFA. I am not yet ripe for a museum, ...
Blatter turned to former US Attorney Richard Cullen, who is currently head of the McGuireWoods law firm, for services. Walcke's interests will be defended by renowned New York lawyer Barry Burke. Both officials are not going to personally comment on the progress of the procedural ...
Sepp Blatter does not exclude the possibility of his candidacy in the early presidential elections in FIFA, a source surrounded by the football boss told the BBC. On June 2, the 79-year-old Swiss, just two days earlier re-elected by the FIFA Congress for a fifth term, announced that ...
The film “Dream League,” in which actor Tim Roth plays honest FIFA President Joseph Blatter, grossed about a thousand dollars in the United States during its premiere weekend. According to the publication, in the first two days at the box office the film grossed just over $600, and total…