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Blatter will not attend int'l Olympic meeting: FIFA
Date: 2015-06-05 12:04:00 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:12 - ID:2735133
Outgoing FIFA president and Olympic member Sepp Blatter will not attend next week's International Olympic Committee meeting in Lausanne, world football's governing body announced on Friday. "In April, the FIFA president informed the IOC that he ....
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Finding replacement for Sepp Blatter as FIFA chief could take months
Date: 2015-06-03 12:34:51 GMT - USA - Sport - SN:30 - ID:2722373
As FIFA chief, Sepp Blatter was nearly impossible to dislodge. Now that he is stepping down, replacing him may be nearly just as tough, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Confusion among world soccer officials and a lack of clear ....
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Sepp Blatter quits as FIFA president amid corruption scandal
Date: 2015-06-02 18:10:33 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:63 - ID:2717813
Sepp Blatter says he will resign as president of football's governing body Fifa amid a corruption scandal, the BBC reported. In announcing his exit, the 79-year-old Swiss has called an extraordinary Fifa congress "as soon as possible" to elect a ....
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Egypt, Tanzania match to be played without audience - security source
Date: 2015-06-02 12:18:35 GMT - Egypt - Sport - SN:18 - ID:2714653
Egypt and Tanzania teams will play a match without audience as part of qualifiers for Africa Cup of Nations Championship, according to a security source at the Ministry of Interior. In statements to MENA, the source said the match will be held on ....
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Fifa result 'incredibly disappointing' - British sports minister
Date: 2015-05-30 08:20:06 GMT - United Kingdom - Sport - SN:9 - ID:2692661
British Culture Media and Sport Secretary John Whittingdale has called Sepp Blatter's reappointment as Fifa president "incredibly disappointing", according to ABC News. “A change in the leadership of Fifa is very badly needed,” he added. "When ....
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Sepp Blatter re-elected as FIFA president for fifth term after Prince Ali withdrawal
Date: 2015-05-29 19:54:59 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:21 - ID:2691657
Sepp Blatter has been officially re-elected as FIFA’s president for a fifth term by the world governing body’s 209 member associations, The Guardian reported Friday. Blatter, 79, saw off the challenge of Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein at ....
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Swiss police confirm bomb threat received at FIFA congress in Zurich
Date: 2015-05-29 13:00:57 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:15 - ID:2689701
A bomb threat has been received at the FIFA congress in Zurich, Swiss police have confirmed. Zurich police tweeted a statement saying that the bomb threat was made by telephone, and that the congress room is being searched. No one has been ....
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US Soccer will support Blatter rival in FIFA election
Date: 2015-05-29 10:17:17 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:7 - ID:2688697
Sunil Gulati, the president of US Soccer, will instruct the United States delegate to vote against the longtime incumbent, Sepp Blatter, and vote instead for the only other candidate, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, when one delegate from each ....
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Sepp Blatter: FIFA's 'few' corrupt officials must be 'discovered, punished'
Date: 2015-05-29 09:45:30 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:3 - ID:2688585
Amid calls for his dismissal Thursday, FIFA President Sepp Blatter blamed allegations of widespread corruption within soccer's governing body on "a few" and called for those involved to be punished as FIFA works to rebuild its reputation, the CNN ....
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Fifa officials arrested in Zurich on corruption charges
Date: 2015-05-27 11:38:32 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:4 - ID:2673749
Swiss authorities arrested several top FIFA officials and plan to extradite them to the United States, where they will face federal corruption charges, Sky news reported. More than a dozen plain-clothed Swiss law enforcement officials arrived ....
