By Paul Nicholson
February 1 – FIFA presidential candidate Shaikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa has outlined more detail of how he would distribute FIFA’s funds to member federations focused on “need-based support”.
By Paul Nicholson
January 29 – FIFA presidential candidate Shaikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa has delivered a hard hitting rebuke to the financial proposals of some of his rivals saying that their campaign promises could never be delivered out of current FIFA funds and that if they tried to, they would bankrupt the world governing body over the next four-year cycle.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 29 – Four of the five candidates for the FIFA presidency are heading to Qatar for weekend meetings, with one of them, South African Tokyo Sexwale, suggesting the horse-trading and unofficial election pacts are in full swing ahead of the February 26 ballot even though all of the contenders are keeping any election deals firmly under wraps.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 29 – Swiss prosecutors say they have been given crucial information by a whisteblower in the criminal investigation of suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter – and into FIFA itself.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 28 – With FIFA mired in its worst ever corruption scandal, presidential candidate Jerome Champagne has stirred up the debate by alleging UEFA has been equally guilty of wrongdoing but has got away with it.
January 27 – The 2022 World Cup should be handed directly to the United States if Qatar is stripped of hosting the tournament, according to FIFA presidential outsider Jerome Champagne.
January 27 – FIFA has confirmed as a formality the names of the five candidates battling for the presidency of football’s world governing body at the election on February 26.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 26 – FIFA presidential candidate Shaikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, the emerging favourite to take over from Sepp Blatter, has intriguingly left the door open for a deal with rival contender Gianni Infantino to become his number two if he wins next month’s election.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 26 – South Africa’s Tokyo Sexwale, increasingly regarded as an outsider, has been challenged by his own federation to explain his low-profile FIFA presidential campaign.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 25 – US investigators who have laid bare football’s worst ever corruption scandal are widening their probe to examine the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 22 – FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino has decided against taking part in next week’s Brussels forum on the future of football’s scandal-tarnished world governing body, leaving only three of the five contenders to tell a global television audience why they should be elected in succession to Sepp Blatter.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 21 – The divisions within UEFA over whether to back Gianni Infantino at the forthcoming FIFA presidential campaign have once against been exposed, this time by one of Europe’s most influential powerbrokers.
January 21 – Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has hit out at FIFA after he was left off the shortlist for the Ballon d’Or award and snubbed the recent ceremony in Zurich.
January 21 – Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are still being paid by FIFA and UEFA despite being unable to work because of their respective eight-bans by FIFA’s ethics committee.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 19 – Just over a month before the FIFA presidential election, Gianni Infantino has published his eagerly awaited manifesto, much of it either mirroring the ideas of fellow candidates or simply reflecting already-approved reform measures that are being put to the vote on election day on February 26.