Uncertainty over the future of Brazil’s football supremo, Ricardo Teixeira, has raised fears over the country’s capacity to host a successful World Cup.
Politics
Brazil’s World Cup preparations: one step forward two steps back
Posted 90 days ago
Just when FIFA thought Brazil was making significant progress in its planning for the 2014 World Cup finals, more bad news arrives.
Gone but not forgotten: Jack Warner’s poisonous legacy
Posted 93 days ago
The whereabouts of missing money intended for emergency relief in Haiti, raises fresh questions about the role played by the disgraced former FIFA vice president Jack Warner.
Buoyant Bundesliga gives Platini plenty to smile about
Posted 97 days ago
With two clubs in the Top 10 of the Deloitte Football Money League for the first time in 14 years, Germany’s Bundesliga is proof that good sense pays off both on and off the pitch.
Egypt post-mortem begins amid claims of premeditated attacks
Posted 104 days ago
The deaths of 74 fans at the end of an Egyptian league game in Port Said between Al Masry and champions Al Ahly, have led to accusations of sinister, politically-motivated forces at work in the country.
Platini comes to the aid of ‘wounded’ Blatter
Posted 107 days ago
Michel Platini believes football must present a united front if is is to combat the threat to it’s integrity posed by criminal elements.
Defiant Blatter comes out fighting
Posted 114 days ago
Sepp Blatter believes that FIFA does not the credit it deserves when things go right, and takes too much blame when things go wrong.
A blueprint for football’s future?
Posted 121 days ago
Despite being sacked by Sepp Blatter, Jerome Champagne harbours no grudge and has produced a manifesto for FIFA to “reconnect with the people of football”.
Blatter confronts another skeleton from his closet
Posted 125 days ago
Lennart Johansson, a former rival of Sepp Blatter, has demanded an independent investigation into the FIFA presidential election of 1998, but his calls are likely to go unheeded.
Uli Hoeness: the scourge of Sepp Blatter
Posted 132 days ago
Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness celebrates his birthday today, but the present he would really relish is the early departure of Sepp Blatter from the FIFA presidency.
