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Who took the bribes? FIFA corruption and the ISL
This theme page is dedicated to news about FIFA corruption, with specific focus on the ISL case.
Through its conferences and website, Play the Game has focused closely on FIFA for the past decade. Investigative journalists, academics and sports officials have often debated FIFA critically, while FIFA has consistently declined invitations to join the debates and explain its actions.
In newspaper articles, FIFA complains its answers have been misrepresented by investigative reporter Andrew Jennings.
Play the Game asked FIFA president Sepp Blatter to answer seven key questions raised by the book and have the answers published unedited on Play the Game’s website.
Read the letter to FIFA and FIFA's reply
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30 April 2013
Today the long awaited official FIFA report into the ISL affair was released. The report is written by Hans-Joachim Eckert, head of the FIFA ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber and looks into the ethical responsibilities in...[more]
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04 December 2012
There are six months left of the reform process being carried out by FIFA in the wake of a string of scandals that have seriously damaged the organisation’s credibility. Michael Hershman, one of the key figures on FIFA’s new...[more]
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12 July 2012
Comment: The publication of the ISL dossier leaves FIFA with a number of inconvenient questions, including the most sensitive: Can FIFA accept a president who allowed his allies to steal massive values from his own enterprise?[more]
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23 April 2012
In a report released today the Council of Europe sharpens it tone against FIFA and provides new information about the scale of the corruption that has affected the world governing body of football.
The report includes the full...[more]
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02 November 2011
Within the last month, investigative journalist Andrew Jennings has obtained documents that show the names of sports officials who received a total of 175 secret payments in bribes from the now defunct ISL sports marketing...[more]
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06 June 2011
The FIFA reforms introduced by its re-elected president Blatter may end up increasing corruption rather than stopping it, and there is a real risk of split in the so-called FIFA family[more]
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13 May 2011
FIFA's new anti-corruption initiative leaves a lot to wish for, says match fixing expert and author Declan Hill in this comment where he expresses worries that without money put aside for enforcement and investigation - also into...[more]
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21 January 2011
In the wake of the corruption allegations that clouded the FIFA World Cup elections in December last year, Swiss politicians now want to put pressure on the sports federations currently enjoying tax exemptions and other fiscal...[more]
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30 November 2010
The controversial and much talked about BBC Panorama documentary “FIFA’s Dirty Secrets” aired yesterday evening, naming names of three FIFA officials who were exposed as bribe-takers in the world’s biggest sport corruption case –...[more]
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29 November 2010
Three days before the election of the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups, new documents have appeared that bring heavy charges against top FIFA officials.[more]
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