By Andrew Warshaw
June 9 – Domenico Scala, the Swiss official who has emerged as the key figure spearheading reform at FIFA and orchestrating a smooth transition to the next president, has outlined the chain of events that led to him being plunged into the limelight when Sepp Blatter resigned.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 8 – The man now very much in charge at FIFA in terms of steering a path towards lasting reform and co-ordinating the extraordinary congress that will find a successor to Sepp Blatter has made it clear that the organisation could go as far as stripping Russia and Qatar of World Cup host status if conclusive new proof of corruption emerges over the bid process.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 8 – For years, amid constant claims of his involvement in widespread corruption and bribery stretching back to the Mohamed bin Hammam cash-for-votes affair and before, Jack Warner, FIFA’s notorious former vice-president, has never admitted he has done anything wrong.
June 5 – With so much focus on the corruption scandal engulfing FIFA, it is easy to forget that the women’s World Cup gets under way this weekend in Canada. Opening games are tomorrow with hosts Canada playing China, followed by New Zealand taking on the Netherlands. Both matches are being played in Edmonton.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 5 – In what is becoming open season time for FIFA’s secrets to see the light of day, a new saga connected with federation money and sharp negotiation has suddenly hit the headlines, this time concerning one the World Cup’s most notorious injustices.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 4 – Another explosive revelation in the FIFA corruption scandal has shamed world football with the admission by high-profile whistleblower Chuck Blazer, the former CONCACAF general secretary, that he facilitated or took kickbacks over the award of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.
June 4 – With the net tightening around him after being arrested and bailed for his alleged role in the ongoing FIFA corruption scandal, Jack Warner has taken to the airwaves in his native Trinidad to say he now fears for his life.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 4 – The race to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president is picking up pace after South Korea’s Chung Mong-joon announced he is considering making a comeback.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 3 – South Africa’s government has issued a powerful denial of paying bribes to secure the 2010 World Cup, denouncing accusations that the infamous $10 million payment cited in the US indictment into widespread football corruption was linked in any way to buying votes.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 3 – Sepp Blatter’s shock resignation as FIFA president has prompted mixed global reaction, with England leading western relief over his departure after 17 years but African federations ruing the loss of the man who helped the continent grow and many of its nations to stay afloat.
By Paul Nicholson and Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has sensationally announced he is to resign. Just four days after triumphantly being elected president for a fifth term at the FIFA Congress last week.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – Heather Rabbatts, a member of FIFA’s anti-discrimination Task Force that was hailed when it was established as a key bridging block in FIFA’s reform programme, has stepped down following the arrest of the body’s chairman, Jeffrey Webb, as part of the US-orchestrated investigation into FIFA corruption.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – The corruption scandal that enveloped last week’s FIFA presidential election and has plunged world football’s governing body into its worst ever crisis deepened overnight with reported allegations in the United States that FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke (pictured) was the man behind a $10 million bank transfer that is central to the investigation being carried out by US authorities.
By Paul Nicholson
June 2 – Back stage the confederation was in turmoil with employees only just having been allowed back into their Miami offices, news of bans of their top officials, and rumours that in the Cayman Islands employees had been relieved of their phones and laptops; front stage CONCACAF conducted the draw for the group stages of the 2015/16 Champions League. If it wasn’t quite business as usual, it was a welcome relief from the dark politics of corruption that have returned to consume the regional body.
June 1 – The Indonesian government has reacted disdainfully to FIFA’s decision to throw the country out of world football saying the move should not be “mourned excessively”.