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FIFA: Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini suspended 90 days "of any activity in football"

Joseph Blatter (SUI), the FIFA president, Michel Platini (FRA), the UEFA president, and Jerome Valcke (FRA), the FIFA secretary geveral (already placed on leave) have been suspended for 90 days, announced the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee on 08/10/2015. These suspensions may be…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal, Essentials Public Authorities & Regulations
• Article # 53334
• Published on 08/10/15 at 12:57
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FIFA: "I plan to sue President Blatter, and the money should go back to FIFA" (Chung Mong-joon)

"I plan to sue President Blatter for embezzlement in court. I asked him in 2002 for (details of) his salary and expenses. He refused. For him to be paid without the Executive Committee’s approval is embezzlement," stated Chung Mong-joon, the keynote speaker at the Leaders In Sport summit at…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Social Responsibility, Legal
• Article # 53245
• Published on 07/10/15 at 17:45
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FIFA: "I assure you that I will stop on 26/02/2016, but not a day before" (Joseph Blatter)

"I assure you that I will stop on 26/02/2016. At that time, it will really be over. But not a day before. Until then, we need to find the right candidate who will be a great president," stated Joseph Blatter, FIFA president, on 07/10/2015. 26/02/2016 is the date of the extraordinary FIFA Congress…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 53214
• Published on 07/10/15 at 15:39
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FIFA: "Michel Platini cannot make a change because he is also part of the system" (Javier Tebas)

"Football is in hands of bureaucrats. For a revolution to happen, it is not enough to change the rules or change committees, we need a cultural revolution. Michel Platini (FRA) cannot make a change because he is also part of the system, though not at the same level," said Javier Tebas, president…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 53213
• Published on 07/10/15 at 14:59
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FIFA: Franz Beckenbauer supports the Tokyo Sexwale as a possible presidential candidate

"I certainly believe that the German Football Association would support his (Tokyo Sexwale's) candidacy. It has the air of neutrality, and therefore I think it would be a good solution," said Franz Beckenbauer, the honorary president of FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) and former member of the FIFA…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 53173
• Published on 07/10/15 at 10:09
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FIFA: "If Michel Platini is elected, I would like to work with him" (Zico)

"Michel Platini has done a very good job as UEFA president. We are friends and we have a lot in common. If he is elected, I would like to work on his team, as I hope he would like to work on mine if I am elected. However, the concentration of power and wealth in Europe is very dangerous for the…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 53110
• Published on 06/10/15 at 16:44
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Georgia: former international Levan Kobiashvili elected president of the Federation

Levan Kobiashvili was elected president of the GFF (Georgian Football Federation) at the Congress of the federation in Tbilisi (GEO), on 03/10/2015. Levan Kobiashvili (38 years old), a former Georgian international (100 caps between 1996 and 2011), was elected with 18 votes against 15 for Revaz…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 53015
• Published on 05/10/15 at 18:09
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FIFA: "The thought of being a candidate had not crossed my mind" (Sheikh Salman, AFC president)

"I have noted recent media speculation that my name has been suggested by others but, while I would like to thank them for their trust and confidence in my leadership, the thought of being a candidate in 2016 had not crossed my mind," wrote Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (BHR), president of the AFC…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 52994
• Published on 05/10/15 at 17:35
FIFA: the German League calls for a "credible explanation" from Michel Platini

"What Platini has told us so far is just not enough. Michel Platini has to give a credible explanation to the public and football fans -- and that is the emphasis: 'credible'. In his letter, he wrote a sentence that I did not like at all: that he does not want to comment further as it is an…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 52925
• Published on 05/10/15 at 10:59
FIFA: in an open letter, Zico asks the Ethics Committee to "not omit anything"

"The criminal proceedings opened by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland against the FIFA president require immediate clarification! Even more so because it involves UEFA president and FIFA presidential candidate, Michel Platini," said the Brazilian Zico, FIFA presidential candidate…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 52851
• Published on 02/10/15 at 15:10