By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 26 – English FA chairman David Bernstein (pictured), strongly opposed a year ago to Sepp Blatter running uncontested for FIFA President, now believes the organisation has finally “seen the light”.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – The first wave of reforms to clean up FIFA were ratified as expected today with the man who drew them up pleading with world football’s governing body not to return to the ills of the past.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – After years of club-versus-country debate over who should pay for players injured on international duty, FIFA today laid out the terms of the groundbreaking insurance policy by revealing that a maximum $9.7 million (£6.2 million/€7.7 million) per player would be paid out covering a period of just over two years.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – The automatic British vice-presidency of FIFA, which has been in place since 1947, looks almost certain to be scrapped as part of the drive to make football’s world governing body more forward-looking and less anachronistic.
By Tom Degun at the Sport Accord Convention in Québec City
May 25 – International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has dismissed the threat posed to a successful Istanbul 2020 Olympics and Paralympics bid by the European Championship finals bid from Turkey insisting that only the bid for the Games has the support of the Turkish Government.
By David Gold
May 25 – Brazil’s Ministry of Sport has revealed its latest assessment of preparations for the 2014 World Cup, with Minister Aldo Rebelo claiming that “most projects will be completed in 2013”.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the main business of the 62nd FIFA Congress today with a speech that called for unity after a year of unprecedented scandal and damaging splits.
By David Gold
May 25 – ONE World Sports (ONS) has signed a three year extension to its coverage of Japanese, South Korean and Chinese football in the United States.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – FIFA’s 62nd Annual Congress officially opened here today with the usual pomp – and a note of controversy provided by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 24 – Goal-line technology is to be tested at England’s friendly against Belgium at Wembley Stadium on June 2, the clearest sign to date that football’s lawmakers are serious about implementing it worldwide.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – The Asian-led campaign to lift the ban on women footballers wearing the Islamic headscarf suffered a serious setback today when FIFA’s leading medical expert said he was still not satisfied by progress made.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – FIFA’s medical experts have called on every footballing nation to be more vigilant in reporting cases of cardiac fatalities to try to work out why they are occurring with such regularity.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – Serbian football authorities have angrily denounced FIFA’s decision to allow Kosovo to play international friendlies against established countries, warning the move was against the rules and would have “harmful” effects on the region.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – Referees could in future face the same kind of dope tests as professional footballers, FIFA medical experts disclosed today.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – UEFA President Michel Platini has once again reiterated that Turkey will not be allowed to host the European Championship finals in 2020 if Istanbul is awarded the Olympics and Paralympics the same summer.