Sentences with phrase «blatter at»

The Brazilian was predecessor to Sepp Blatter at world football's governing body, serving from 1974 to 1998.

Not exact matches

The suspensions relate to allegations that Blatter signed an «unfavourable contract» with the Caribbean Football Union, which benefited the association at FIFA's expense, and a «disloyal payment» to Platini.

Many football supporters were unanimous in their displeasure at the news and voiced concerns over what state FIFA would be in with Blatter in charge and even UEFA president Michel Platini had called for change (via Mirror Sport).

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

Triesman is also seeking talks with Fifa president Sepp Blatter after the world football's governing body were widely condemned for fining the Croatia FA just # 15,000 following the monkey chants aimed at Emile Heskey during England's 4 - 1 win in Zagreb.

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 Swiss.

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At one moment Dassler tells Blatter that «The Olympic is politics, but the World Cup is people.»

It was a claim that's easy to dismiss given the sheer amount of evidence that points to something rotten at the heart of FIFA, but, even in a very minor sense, does Blatter have a point?

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.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter will surely face even more criticism after a poor attempt at condemning the racist attack by Chelsea fans on a man at the Paris Metro station last week.

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?

It seems to grow harder than ever to understand the anomalies of football for the moment I am not talking about that sink of iniquity which is FIFA, where at long last the ineffable Sepp Blatter, forever promising to solve the problem of which he is such a central part, has at long last agreed to release the Swiss court papers which detail how two senior FIFA executives — plainly Joao Havelange himself and Ricardo Texeira — received a huge pay off from the now defunct ISLCompany in exchange for valuable rights.

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.

Michel Platini claimed on Tuesday night that he was given # 1.3 million by Sepp Blatter nine years after finishing work for the Fifa president because the organisation could not afford to pay him in full at the time.

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Ancelotti, speaking at a press conference, launched a scathing attack on the Fifa boss after it had been reported that Blatter would like to see German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer win the Ballon d'Or ahead of Ronaldo.

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has hit out at Fifa president Sepp Blatter saying he is «impossible to shut up» before backing his player Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or.

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.

So FIFA President Sepp Blatter found a need to open his big, corrupt mouth on the weekend to comment on Wayne Rooney's elbow incident at Wigan.

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.

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Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in July 2012 that Fifa's new ethics committee would be looking at the bribery allegations.

Addressing FIFA delegates at the body's annual Congress in Switzerland, where members will later vote to decide the organization's presidency, Blatter promised more transparency and urged members to remain unified.)

One of David Cameron's first acts at PM was to ring Mr Blatter to underline the government's support for the attempt to bring the World Cup to England for the first time since 1966.

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.

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.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who has been adamant in the past that goal line technology would not be coming to football whilst he is charge, has now admitted that Fifa need to reconsider its stance in light of what has happened at the World Cup, in particular... Read more