Sentences with phrase «blatter who»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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...

Coming in with the third - best odds is legendary player Luis Figo, who ran against Blatter in the last election before dropping out, saying that the process was not actually democratic.

FIFA appeal committee that reduced Blatter, Platini bans headed by Larry Mussenden of Bermuda who is currently seeking CONCACAF presidency

Platini said that he would never run against Sepp Blatter, who resigned on Tuesday, but will be encouraged to run for the position now that Blatter is gone.

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.

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Also missing from the 2002 election are former secretary - general Michel Zen - Ruffiman, whose dossier on corruption threatened to bring Blatter down, and Farra Ado, then - president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100,000 by officials working for Blatter's re-election.

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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.

The De Gea saga rumbles on, Sergio Romero is untried and untested in the Premier League (we saw how De Gea struggled in his first season), and then we have Victor Valdes — now out of favour with Van Gaal, who seems to make more enemies than Sep Blatter.

Blatter has eliminated internal opposition and it is difficult to see who will foment a grass - roots revolt and be prepared to give up their place by the honeypot to do so.

UEFA president Michel Platini claims he is the only person who can beat Sepp Blatter in an election battle for the FIFA presidency.

Swiss Blatter, who has run Fifa since 1998, and Platini, who wants to succeed him, deny any wrongdoing.

The is no treaty in existence that recognises «Korea DPR», which is, in fact, nothing more than a figment of Mr Blatter's imagination, designed to accommodate the hopeless denial and delusion of a communist pariah and the un-sporting refusal of the DPRK (itself un-recognised by one member of the UN Security Council) to acknowledge the existence of one of its potential WC opponents (and one who happens also to be one of its only two land neighbours).

Damian Collins, an MP who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and who has led a campaign for Fifa reform, has said Blatter should resign over the findings of the report.

The election is to find a successor to the suspended Sepp Blatter, who is under criminal investigation.

Bizarrely, the movie boasts a stellar cast including French actor Gerard Depardieu, Sam Neill and the hugely accomplished Tim Roth, who plays Blatter.

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