Sentences with phrase «sepp blatter»

Led by FIFA President Sepp Blatter, it has found support from a number of influential figures, but it has also been condemned as unnecessary and incompatible with European legislation, not least by the European Commission (the Commission).

(Sepp Blatter, FIFA Congress, 30 May 2008)

There they fell during 2011, one after the other in past - their - prime domino descent: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunis, Hosni Mubarak from Cairo, Dominique Strauss - Kahn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Muammar Gaddafi from Tripoli, Georgios Papandreou from Athens, Silvio Berlusconi from Rome, US football guru and sex - crime cover - upper Joe Paterno from Penn State University — with media baron Rupert Murdoch, soccer supremo Sepp Blatter, Syrian tyrant Bashar al - Assad and Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh looking decidedly shaky, too.

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

FIFA, world football's governing body is no stranger to controversy and ridicule, but even by Sepp Blatter's standards, this is ridiculous.

The vote will be held next year, with current president Sepp Blatter yet to decide whether to go for another term

Three men — Jules Rimet (Gérard Depardieu), Joao Havelange (Sam Neill) and Sepp Blatter (Tim Roth)-- establish FIFA and help make the World Cup the most popular sporting event in the world.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2015, Episode 6: Armen Keteyian interviews past FIFA International Governance Committee member Alexandra Wrage regarding her resignation following a disagreement with now former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

Sepp Blatter says he has not resigned as Fifa president.

Russia and Qatar may have had to pay bribes to secure their World Cups, Sepp Blatter's former special advisor has suggested.

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has reiterated his view that World Cups should be staged in one country rather than...

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

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.

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

«What happens after Friday if indeed Sepp Blatter is re-elected will need careful consideration, primarily by the FA... I shall certainly be seeing Greg Dyke very shortly to discuss the attitude of the FA.

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?»

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.

FIFA's suspended president Sepp Blatter holds a news conference in Zurich, Switzerland, December 21, 2015.

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».

(ZURICH — World soccer boss Sepp Blatter was expected to be re-elected on Friday, defying growing calls for him to step down in the face of corruption scandals engulfing the sport's governing body.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has suggested the team should comprise only English players to avoid future complications.

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

Uefa's head Michel Platini warned any player walking off the pitch because of racist chanting during Euro 2010 would be booked, while Fifa president Sepp Blatter had suggested in 2011 that race - related incidents could be settled with a post-match handshake.

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.

MPs have waded into the row over the future of Fifa, arguing that Sepp Blatter's position «is not tenable».

The North Korea / South Korea point is interesting, and I have no time for Sepp Blatter.

President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, an avowed supporter of indicted Fifa President, Sepp Blatter, has hailed the organisation for...

When the official 2018 World Cup logo, a logo that reflected the Russian people's heart and soul according to FIFA's president, Sepp Blatter, was revealed in Moscow on the 28th of October, the countdown to the World's biggest sporting event finally began.

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.

There's not much I agree with Sepp Blatter on, but the vuvuzela is a distinctly local feature, and I'm pleased of it.

Crazy Sepp Blatter wants a quota on foreign players in European teams; each club would only be allowed to have five foreign players in its starting XI.

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

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.

UEFA president michel Platini claims he is the only person able to beat Sepp Blatter in a FIFA presidential election.

UEFA chief claims he is the only person capable of beating Sepp Blatter in a presidential election.

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

By this time Platini had forged a close working relationship with the then FIFA general secretary Sepp Blatter.

Michel Platini is continuing to waver over whether to contest the FIFA presidency when Sepp Blatter's current terms ends in May 2015.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he will seek to reinstate fired Egypt football federation leaders, calling their dismissal «direct interference» by the Cairo government.

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.

Infantino, the Swiss - born son of Italian immigrant parents, took over the scandal - battered world body from disgraced president Sepp Blatter in February 2016.

up, the control of whose votes, long before Bin Hammam tried recently to bribe them, enabled him to get whatever he liked whenever he liked out of Sepp Blatter.

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.

From a position of power Hoeness could virtually say what he liked — about opposing players, about FIFA and Sepp Blatter, about then German football boss Theo Zwanziger and the DFB, about referees, about officials, about rival coaches — even about his own coaches.

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.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced his resignation on Tuesday amid the corruption scandal that has rocked world football's governing body.

Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter has suggested that FIFA had agreed to host the 2018 World Cup in Russia before the vote was held and...

The Fifa ethics committee banned president Sepp Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini from football activities for eight years.

Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter is still receiving his presidential salary despite his world football ban, according to the Reuters news agency.

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter is facing another corruption investigation after the ethics committee of world football's governing body announced it was opening proceedings against him and key lieutenants Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner.