Sentences with phrase «for blatter»

It would be for the best if Tomkins changed his agent and all the rest leave so we can clean ship, When the new man arrives I am sure he and Mr Henry will get the ball rolling, until then I wait with baited breath for Blatter to be arrested or am I not allowed an opinion on that either

«I do not want others to be punished, I want Fifa to change the regulations and for Blatter to reflect.

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.

Not exact matches

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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...

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The Portuguese, former Balon d'Or winner emerged as a shock candidate for the role in January as a host of other candidates emerged to attempt to stop the re-election of Sepp Blatter.

After winning the presidential election last week, Blatter was expected to serve as president for another four years, but has decided to step down presumably because of the negative reaction to his re-election.

Figo is part of just a handful of challengers to the incumbent president Blatter after receiving the requisite five votes needed to put forward his bid for the role.

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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Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won't be partaking in any soccer - related activities for a while, but FIFA says they can get back to work a bit sooner than expected.

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.

The ouster of Sepp Blatter returned credibility to FIFA for all of... a few months.

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.

Platini was called on to challenge FIFA president Sepp Blatter, but the Frenchman was adamant that his work leading the governing body for Europe wasn't over yet.

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.

Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term as president of FIFA and boy, did he have some things to say.

Al - Hussein emerged as the only threat to Blatter for Friday's presidential race where he picked up 73 votes and he is likely to stand again for the position as head of FIFA.

i would call sepp blatter my father for the money u get paid to have play doh ankles.

Joseph Blatter, the general secretary of the FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, announced that Maradona's accusation constituted «a very grave offense,» and that he could be banned from the World Cup for it.

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While this has been coming for a while — indeed, it's arguably been coming ever since Sepp Blatter opened an envelope, then opened his mouth, then opened up one of the biggest cans of worms in FIFA's noticeably wormy history — today is the first official step towards moving the tournament away from its usual June / July time slot.

Warner is said to have encouraged all members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to vote for president Sepp Blatter in his upcoming elections.

The Swiss AG suspects Blatter of signing a contract with the Caribbean Football Union — headed up by Jack Warner — that he knew was unfavorable for FIFA.

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In the press conference, Blatter called for profound structural reforms to world football's governing body:

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Platini is the favorite to replace Blatter and has carried an anti-corruption image for a long time, so this is a bad look for him.

Investigative journalist Edgar Willcox tells Blatter «You were the secretary - general, for God's sake.

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.

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But certainly not Arsenal because the Boss will not dishonour his Contract for the Catilan to pick it up on a blatter.

«The Boss will not dishonour his Contract for the Catilan to pick it up on a (blatter)».

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.

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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?

Sepp Blatter, president of world football's governing body Fifa, tweeted that there was «no place for racism in football».

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.

Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.

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.

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

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

We know, all too horribly well that the deplorable Blatter will sail through again for a fifth depressing term.

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.

Few in the FIFA sphere admit to longing for the days of Blatter.