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Sepp Blatter

BREAKING: FIFA Suspends Blatter, Platini

http://gty.im/481872256 The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Hans Joachim Eckert has provisionally banned FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, UEFA President and FIFA Vice-President Michel Platini, and FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke (who has already been put on leave by his employer FIFA) for a duration of 90 days. The…
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FIFA Reform Commission Chief Defends Blatter

http://gty.im/483641654 In a revealing and rather blunt interview, the man tasked with spearheading FIFA reform efforts in the wake of a crackdown on corruption within the soccer world's organizing body has gone on record with his opinion that outgoing FIFA President Sepp Blatter has been treated unfairly. The interview with Swiss publication Le…
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FIFA Corruption Probe Leads to Arrests (UPDATED)

FIFA Corruption Probe Leads to Arrests http://gty.im/467034360 Late Tuesday evening in the US and before most had even woken up in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday morning, Swiss law enforcement officers began rounding up several FIFA officials after the US Department of Justice issued indictments against them as part of an ongoing probe into…
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