Sentences with phrase «blatter as»

Sheikh - Salman - bin - Ebrahim - Al - Khalifa remains favourite to succeed Sepp Blatter as Fifa president.

There are five candidates to replace Sepp Blatter as Fifa president after Blatter and Michel Platini were slapped with eight year bans

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United Passions, which features controversial FIFA head Sepp Blatter as one of its heroes, cost almost $ 30 million to make.

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Last week, Sepp Blatter, who has served as FIFA's president for nearly two decades, announced that he would be stepping down as reports emerged that he too was being investigated by the FBI...

With the news that Sepp Blatter has sensationally resigned from his post as FIFA president on Tuesday afternoon, there has been an overwhelming reaction on social media.

The Portuguese, former Balon d'Or winner emerged as a shock candidate for the role in January as a host of other candidates emerged to attempt to stop the re-election of Sepp Blatter.

After winning the presidential election last week, Blatter was expected to serve as president for another four years, but has decided to step down presumably because of the negative reaction to his re-election.

Sepp Blatter falls on his sword as he announces his resignation as FIFA President.

In this sense, amongst others, the Appeal Committee considered that Mr Platini's and Mr Blatter's activities and the services they had rendered to FIFA, UEFA and football in general over the years should deserve appropriate recognition as a mitigating factor.

English FA President Greg Dyke, who has been highly critical of Sepp Blatter and FIFA, is mostly included as a joke with 100 - 1 odds.

Basically, FIFA decided that Platini and Blatter shouldn't be punished as harshly as initially recommended because they worked at FIFA.

Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term as president of FIFA and boy, did he have some things to say.

I know just the man to navigate us through the murky world of transfers and as luck would have it he has just become available, Sepp Blatter

Sepp Blatter refers to Oceania's delegates as «Ocean's 11.»

Al - Hussein emerged as the only threat to Blatter for Friday's presidential race where he picked up 73 votes and he is likely to stand again for the position as head of FIFA.

As the football world was shocked on Tuesday evening with news that Sepp Blatter has quit from his post as FIFA president, we take a look at who Betfair has tipped to replace the SwisAs the football world was shocked on Tuesday evening with news that Sepp Blatter has quit from his post as FIFA president, we take a look at who Betfair has tipped to replace the Swisas FIFA president, we take a look at who Betfair has tipped to replace the Swiss.

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The world governing body of football and Sepp Blatter — as usual — making the rules up as they go along to fit their needs.

Tim Roth's performance as Blatter is a deeply strange one.

So as a kind of compromise, we're left with a deeply unsatisfying version of events in which Blatter sits, unspoiled, as a kind of ingenue in the middle of everything.

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Sepp Blatter's daughter, Corinne, claims that her father is a part of conspiracy to have him ousted from his position as FIFA president following the corruption scandal to have hit football's world governing body this week.

The multi-stranded arguments about the Qatar World Cup are rumbling on, the women of the World Cup are taking legal action to be allowed to play on proper grass and Sepp Blatter has his sights set on yet another term as FIFA president.

The much criticised Sepp Blatter has already resigned as president, and several officials have been arrested.

Blatter was re-elected as FIFA president after his rival, Prince Ali Bin al - Hussein conceded defeat after winning only 73 votes, compared to the incumbent's 133, in the first round of voting [via The Guardian].

Fifa has announced Claudio Sulser, head of the ethics committee, will not take charge of the hearing as he shares Swiss nationality with Bin Hammam's presidential rival Blatter.

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Last year, amongst a flurry of articles, reports and exclusives accusing and alleging corruption at the heart of FIFA, Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the storm against the organisation and particularly its choice to select Qatar as the host for the 2022 World Cup was down to racism and discrimination.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

Imagine if they were questioned about the appointment of Franz Beckenbauer's good friend, Holger Osieck, as national coach or their backing of Sepp Blatter for President in 2011 despite urgings to the contrary — to name just a few decisions that were known to be ill - conceived at the time.

Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.

Now Sepp Blatter is no fool, he is just acting as one.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter His achievements in the game place him without doubt as one of the «greats».

It is anticipated Blatter and Michel Platini, who was widely expected to succeed the Swiss as FIFA president, will this week learn the results of their appeals against their respective eight - year suspensions from all football - related activity.

Blatter is certainly supported in the third world countries and as you say, Faustus, some of that (at a voting level) will be due to the backhanders.

I only fear that they will not fall on Blatter who will position himself as the champion of corruption - fighting.

The suspension, trimmed to six years by FIFA's own appeal committee, prevented Platini from standing for the FIFA presidency in succession to Blatter who was duly succeeded instead as the head of world football by Gianni Infantino, who had been Platini's general secretary at UEFA.

While Truly Reds presents a regular Sunday Review feature which looks at various Manchester United related books, this weeks obscene election — if it can really be described as an «election», of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, prompted me to re examine a 448 page hardback which was published three years ago.

Blatter sees this as the solution to encouraging home - grown talent, but, honestly, we're too far down the line to go back to such a quota system, and anyway -LSB-...]

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter described the neck wear as something dangerous which is not akin to hanging someone few months before IFAB outlawed it.

Mr Warner was famously close to Mr Blatter and was well known as one of world football's leading powerbrokers.

I was pleased that we did manage to bring the might of The Observer's leader columns out against Sepp Blatter's re-election (as «football's Nixon») when I worked there in 2002; also because Denis Campbell, Simon Kuper and others had done quite a lot of investigative reporting.

The prime minister will lay out the Downing Street red carpet for Sepp Blatter and his cohorts, as the bid organisers attempt to show off the prospects under the tagline of «England United».

At this morning's lobby briefing, No 10 made it clear that David Cameron supported calls for Sepp Blatter to quit as head of Fifa.

If the election goes ahead and Sepp Blatter is re-elected, unbelievably, as president of Fifa, will my right honourable friend encourage the home nations to withdraw from Fifa to make a stand on this particular issue... and would the Government support them in that decision?»

Media reports suggested Fifa president Sepp Blatter raised the issue of the media allegations at an executive committee meeting on Wednesday, just as Amazon was shutting out Wikileaks.

An imposing figure, with piercing blue eyes, his astuteness as a politician and his adeptness at retaining power enabled him to hold the Fifa presidency for 24 years until being succeeded by Blatter in 1998.