Sentences with phrase «body fifa»
South Africa has denied paying a $ 10m bribe to secure the 2010 World Cup, in the wake of a US inquiry into corruption at world football body Fifa.
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The Spanish side had originally been barred from signing players for two windows by world governing body Fifa, but that has now been reduced to just one.
Sepp Blatter, president of world football's governing body Fifa, tweeted that there was «no place for racism in football».
Pompey have asked the Premier League, who in turn have made a request to world governing body Fifa, to allow the stricken South Coast outfit to sell players in a bid to ease their crippling debts.
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The Guardian: Sports hijabs help Muslim women to Olympic success London 2012 is the first Olympics where women will compete in all 26 sports on offer (although still in 30 fewer events in total), and Fifa is just one of several international bodies to relax clothing rules and so allow more Muslim women to compete in the Games.
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.
Fifa is insular, unrepresentative and far too Swiss, according to the man who blew the whistle on corruption at world football's governing body.
Fifa's chief medical officer also felt Lloris should have been substituted - in accordance with the governing body's guidelines.
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.
Meanwhile Cameroon's Issa Hayatou has been named as the acting Fifa president, making him the first African to lead world football's governing body.
He also claimed Fifa was «rotten» and not representative, before suggesting a new governing body could be established for the sport in light of the mounting controversy.
In 1974 he succeeded Britain's Sir Stanley Rous to be elected Fifa president, marshalling support among those unhappy at the perceived European domination of the world governing body.
Champagne warned of what he called the «NBA - ification» of football in which certain domestic leagues could become more powerful than Fifa, as he claims to be the case with the NBA in the United States and Fiba, the world governing body for basketball.