While FIFA statutes currently limit a president to a maximum three four-year terms, Infantino has already prepared the ground to stay until 2031, declaring in December that his first three years at the helm did not count as a full term
17 March,2023 09:58 AM IST | Kigali | AFP
In an interview with German weekly Die Zeit released Wednesday, Blatter said that “what is happening at the moment is an overcommercialisation of the game... There are attempts to squeeze more and more out of the lemon”
22 December,2022 08:31 AM IST | Berlin | AP
In a short statement, the former French football great claimed to have “won the first round,” while alluding to alleged political and judicial manipulation intended to remove him from power
09 July,2022 07:58 AM IST | Bellinzona | AFP
The case was centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier
08 July,2022 03:33 PM IST | Mumbai | AP
The former FIFA chief and French football legend Platini are being tried at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court, following an investigation that began in 2015
10 June,2022 08:14 AM IST | Berne | AFP
The pair are being tried over a two million Swiss franc ($2.08 million) payment in 2011 to Platini, who was then in charge of European football’s governing body UEFA
08 June,2022 08:10 AM IST | Lausanne | AFP
Blatter described this latest punishment as a "blow behind the neck, painful and incomprehensible". "The ethics commission, in its current form, is nothing like an independent body," he told AFP from a Swiss clinic where he is convalescing after two months in hospital.
25 March,2021 07:33 AM IST | Lausanne | AFP
The Zurich-based museum, a landmark Blatter project, was opened in February 2016 by current FIFA president Gianni Infantino just after he was elected as the successor to the disgraced Blatter
23 December,2020 11:38 AM IST | Geneva | AP
The FIFA Council chose to back his re-election by acclamation, with Infantino now hoping to build on the work he started in February 2016, when he was voted in to succeed the disgraced Sepp Blatter at the head of the organisation
06 June,2019 09:11 AM IST | Paris | AFP
France earned USD 38 million from FIFA for winning the men's World Cup last July but the women's champion this July will earn USD 4 million
06 March,2019 10:44 AM IST | London | APADVERTISEMENT
