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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (English: International Federation of Association Football), commonly known by the acronym FIFA (usual ), is the international governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Top international prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, best known for pursuing war criminals, has been nominated as chief investigator at FIFA, soccer's scandal-plagued governing body, with a brief to probe match-fixing and corruption.
FIFA's executive committee is due to discuss the appointment of a chief investigator within the next few weeks as part of a proposed clean-up following a string of graft cases.In March, FIFA's executive approved plans to split the ethics committee, which looks into wrongdoing by officials, into separate divisions with one to investigate cases and one to judge them.Moreno-Ocampo, whose term as chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague ends in June, has been nominated to head the investigations team, said Mark Pieth, a professor from the Swiss-based Institute of Governance.Pieth heads a 13-member panel created last year to oversee changes in the way Swiss-based FIFA is run. Reform of FIFA's ethics committee was one of his main propos...A damning list of alleged financial mismanagement by former CONCACAF leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer was outlined to 40 soccer nations Wednesday, just minutes a...
The chase to host the 2020 Summer Games was reduced to a three horse race between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo after Doha and the Azerbaijan capital Baku were dropped ...
When London marathon medical director Sanjay Sharma was called to attend someone who had collapsed with suspected cardiac arrest a mile from the finish line last mon...
You may have never heard of David Alaba, a 19-year-old Austria international who is one of the rising stars in soccer. In just a few days, you should be introduced t...
Chelsea can plan its future from an unexpected position of strength as champion of Europe following its dramatic upset of Bayern Munich.Roman Abramovich has the Cham...
The largest-ever United Nations conference, a summit billed as a historic opportunity to build a greener future, appears to be going up in smoke.U.S. President Barac...
The chairman of the Premier League accused FIFA and UEFA of stealing the game of soccer from the English and derided his Qatari hosts' restrictions on selling alcoho...
FIFA's executive committee has met Brazil's replacements for former soccer leader Ricardo Teixeira at a session of the governing body's committee overseeing the 2014...
FIFA published on Thursday a new code of conduct for all soccer players and officials that includes direct orders to reject bribery and corruption in the game.FIFA h...
The anti-corruption expert appointed by FIFA to advise on modernizing reforms and repairing its scandal-hit reputation promises a "tough" report to soccer's governin...
Former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam must wait two months for a verdict in his appeal against a lifetime ban from soccer for alleged bribery.The Cou...
The Iraqi Football Association will ask FIFA to lift the ban on home international matches at stadiums across the country.Officials will travel to Zurich this month ...
Top international prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, best known for pursuing war criminals, has been nominated as chief investigator at soccer's corruption-plagued gover...
Sepp Blatter said Tuesday he expects the FIFA Congress of world soccer nations to be a lot calmer than the last one."I am an optimist. I am sure it is a very positiv...
Sepp Blatter's reform of FIFA will continue on Friday when delegates at the 62nd FIFA Congress review a set of proposals aimed at modernizing the way world soccer's ...
FIFA President Sepp Blatter's anti-corruption drive hit another delay on Tuesday, even as soccer's world governing body appointed the first woman to its inner circle...
A list of alleged financial mismanagement allegations against former CONCACAF leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer was outlined to 40 soccer nations Wednesday, just ...
A list of financial mismanagement allegations against former CONCACAF leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer was outlined to 40 football nations Wednesday, just minute...
FIFA's medical advisers say new designs are needed because headscarfs worn by Muslim women players could lead to head and neck injuries.Michel D'Hooghe, chairman of ...
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