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In his first interview since his re-election as FIFA president, Sepp Blatter talks to CNN’s Alex Thomas about restoring the credibility of the world’s football governing body and the possibility of re-examining Qatar’s winning 2022 World Cup bid. ALEX THOMAS: Why are you the right man to lead world football for the next four years?…
DILI (2 June 2011) – FIFA President Joseph Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term of office until 2015 by the 61st FIFA Congress. A clear majority of 186 member associations voted in favour of the incumbent president, who will remain at the head of world football’s governing body for the next four years. In…
DILI (31 May 2011) – The FIFA Executive Committee, chaired by President Joseph S. Blatter, decided to lift the suspension on Brunei Darussalam (NFABD, formerly BAFA) and extended the deadline for Indonesia FA (PSSI). The committee took the decision on Brunei after ascertaining that the national association had fulfilled the conditions established by the FIFA…
DILI (30 May 2011) – The FIFA Ethics Committee, under the chairmanship of Petrus Damaseb (Namibia), decided to provisionally suspend, with immediate effect, FIFA Vice-President Jack A. Warner and FIFA Executive Committee member Mohamed bin Hammam from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) worldwide after examining their cases in relation…
DILI (29 May 2011) – AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam withdrew his candidature from the FIFA Presidential election, which is slated for June 1, earlier today. In a statement posted on his personal website (www.afcpresident.com), the AFC chief said: “It saddens me that standing up for the causes that I believed in has come at…
DILI (29 May 2011) – The 61st FIFA Congress will be held in Zurich in a few days where representatives of all Member Associations gather for ‘football’s parliament’. The Congress, the organization’s supreme body, bears a particular responsibility for developing the game, the nature of which has changed markedly since FIFA’s foundation on 21 May…