FIFA: The ball's in Blatter's court now
Updated On: 01 June, 2015 07:21 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
Even as the FIFA controversy sizzles as top officials are indicted for graft in an investigation into football’s governing body, there are indications that this is not the last of the corruption story in football
Even as the FIFA controversy sizzles as top officials are indicted for graft in an investigation into football’s governing body, there are indications that this is not the last of the corruption story in football.
Already we are hearing that there will be a probe into the allocation of the World Cup 2018 and 2022. Seven officials were arrested in Zurich earlier in a development that sent shockwaves across the world. Re-elected FIFA president Sepp Blatter has naturally, and expectedly, sought to downplay the US criminal proceedings launched against FIFA officials.


