FIFA

What is the harvest like when a country with a 77-year-old membership of FIFA suddenly finds itself, as Antigua did in June 2003, shown the red card so its corrupt top-tier officials could not be got rid of electorally?[more]

We all know about Joseph Blatter, the President of FIFA. But who knows Julio Grondona who has built up Blatter’s world-wowing financial empire?[more]

Delegates at Play the Game today decided to ask FIFA what action the organisation had taken when Burmese journalist Zaw Thet Htwe was sentenced to death because he published articles questioning how the Burmese Football...[more]

Three years ago Michel Zen-Ruffinen had to leave the highest administrative post in world football after a showdown with FIFA's powerful president Sepp Blatter.[more]

One hand, the military dictatorship used the soccer World Cup 1978 to gain political prestige at home and abroad. On the other, the Argentinians celebrated football because they regarded it as something of their own. Indeed, this...[more]

Sepp Blatter's cash-strapped FIFA are in turmoil this week after he sacked one of his closest aides - but agreed to pay his salary, around GBP150,000 a year, until the end of 2006.[more]

Player agents from Proactive, an international firm of agents, can negotiate with each other and represent both parties in a negotiation situation.[more]

World football chief Sepp Blatter receives a secret annual payment of around GBP250,000 a year on top of his generous salary and perks.[more]

The favourite nephew of tyrant Robert Mugabe has been fired as boss of Zimbabwe football for being unable to account for a USD61,000 grant from FIFA for developing youth facilities.[more]

The two-year suspension by the World Soccer body, FIFA, on the Confederation of African Football vice President Farah Addo will not affect activities of the continental and regional soccer bodies, officials said.[more]