Sentences with phrase «against blatter»
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.
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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.
Backed by bookmakers Paddy Power, the Frenchman had launched a plan to stand against Sepp Blatter from standing for a fifth consecutive term earlier this month.
«Fifa ExCo member Mohamed Bin Hammam has requested the Fifa ethics committee to open ethics proceedings against Fifa president Joseph S Blatter,» a Fifa statement read.
They claim that Blatter «violated his fiduciary duties and acted against the interest of FIFA.»
The inquiry will begin on May 29 just days before the committee will meet to vote for the next president of the World's governing body of which Bin Hammam is the only candidate running against Sepp Blatter.
«There is a sort of storm against Fifa relating to the Qatar World Cup,» Blatter said, reports BBC.
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.
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.
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.
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.