FIFA: $201m in compensation awarded to the FIFA Foundation by the US Department of Justice

"The United States Department of Justice has awarded the sum of $201m (€171m) to the FIFA Foundation as compensation for the losses suffered by FIFA, Concacaf and CONMEBOL as victims of decades of football corruption schemes.

"The funds will go into a newly formed World Football Remission Fund, established under the auspices of the FIFA Foundation to help finance football-related projects with positive community impact across the globe," added the body.

"On behalf of all future beneficiaries around the world, I would like to thank the US authorities for the trust placed in FIFA. Thanks to their intervention back in 2015, we have been able to fundamentally change FIFA from a toxic organisation," said Gianni Infantino (ITA/SUI), president of FIFA.

"Money which was illegally siphoned out of football is now coming back" (G. Infantino, FIFA)

• "I am delighted to see that money which was illegally siphoned out of football is now coming back to be used for its proper purposes, as it should have been in the first place.

• I want to sincerely thank the US Justice authorities for their…