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Banned former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has received an open invitation from President Vladimir Putin to attend the World Cup ...

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter talks to the media as he arrives at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland July 8, 2022.

Blatter, Platini cleared of corruption charges at FIFA trial

by Tshepiso Moche

8 July 2022, 12:11 PM

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France footballing legend Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss ...

Verdict due in corruption trial of Blatter and Platini

by Richard Brooks

8 July 2022, 3:36 AM

Swiss judges are set to rule on Friday in the corruption trial of ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France's former ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter arrives before a commemoration service for the former coach of the Swiss national soccer team Koebi Kuhn at the Grossmuenster church in Zurich, Switzerland December 13, 2019.

Ex-soccer chief Blatter too ill to testify at his fraud trial

by Lebo Tshangela

8 June 2022, 5:00 PM

The trial of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and French footballing legend Michel Platini over alleged corrupt payments ground to ...

Blatter and Platini, who were once close associates but are now bitter enemies, have both denied wrongdoing.

Blatter and Platini face Swiss corruption trial

7 June 2022, 9:34 AM

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and ex-UEFA President Michel Platini are due to appear in a Swiss court on Wednesday ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter talks to the media as he arrives before a commemoration service for the former coach of the Swiss national soccer team Koebi Kuhn at the Grossmuenster church in Zurich, Switzerland December 13, 2019. [File image]

FIFA loses court bid to revive probe of Blatter over media rights deal

29 July 2021, 12:52 PM

A Swiss court has rejected world soccer body FIFA's bid to revive a criminal probe against its former president, Sepp ...

Former FIFA president Blatter handed new ban over bonuses

24 March 2021, 3:12 PM

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been handed a further six years and eight months ban from the game and ...

FIFA’s ethics committee would not comment on whether Infantino, who was elected in 2016, would face an internal investigation.

Former FIFA president Blatter calls for Infantino to be suspended

by Preggie Moodley

1 August 2020, 8:11 AM

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for his successor, Gianni Infantino, to be suspended by the global soccer body ...

Swiss prosecutors to drop one of cases against ex-FIFA chief Blatter

11 April 2020, 2:59 PM

Switzerland's federal prosecutor is about to end its investigation into former FIFA President Sepp Blatter's deals with the Caribbean Football ...

Violence broke during the match between Ghana and Equatorial Guinea. Picture:REUTERS

Blatter slams media negativity after Nations Cup violence

7 February 2015, 4:47 PM

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and CAF chief Issa Hayatou accused western media on Saturday of dramatising the crowd violence which ...

FIFA President, Sepp Blatter faces four challengers in his bid for re-election on May 29. Picture:REUTERS

Africa solidly behind Blatter, officials say

27 January 2015, 5:05 PM

African countries will vote overwhelmingly for Sepp Blatter in this year's FIFA elections, senior officials told Reuters on Tuesday.

Former Bafana Bafana coach, Ted Dumitru says perpetual ignorance leads to perpetual failure and it should not be accepted anymore in South African football. Picture:SABC

Paying dearly for football ignorance

23 November 2012, 3:40 PM

Joseph Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president, says he has been analysing African football and the problems facing African football are ...

Former Bafana Bafana coach, Ted Dumitru says in South Africa, out of approximately 6900 trained coaches only 11 are youth qualified coaches. Picture:SABC

Paying dearly for football ignorance

23 November 2012, 3:22 PM

Joseph Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president, says he has been analysing African football and the problems facing African football are ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino addresses delegates during the CAF President's Outstanding Achievement Awards, in Kigali, Rwanda

Infantino re-elected FIFA president unopposed, promising greater revenues

16 March 2023, 11:32 AM

20 November 2022, 12:07 AM

Gianni Infantino was re-elected as FIFA president during the 73rd Congress in Kigali on Thursday, promising record revenues in the ...

PREVIEW: Qatar’s moment of truth has come

by Sipho Kekana

19 November 2022, 3:09 AM

The moment of truth for Qatar's ability to organise the World Cup after years of failed overtures and criticism over ...

A fan takes a photograph of a countdown clock to the start of the World Cup.

Qatar’s moment of truth has come

by Tshepiso Moche

12 October 2022, 12:37 PM

The moment of truth for Qatar's ability to organise the World Cup after years of failed overtures and criticism over ...

FIFA's president Gianni Infantino gestures during a news conference at the Nicaragua National Football stadium, in Managua, Nicaragua August 29, 2022

CONMEBOL back Infantino for new term as FIFA president

by Ashley Muhluri Maluleke

The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) expressed its unanimous support for incumbent FIFA president Gianni Infantino as he seeks to ...

Cameroon's Hayatou, 75, was banned from all soccer-related activity at national and international level and fined 30,000 Swiss francs ($32,000) after a decision by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee on June 17.

CAS voids ban, fine against FIFA former interim chief Hayatou

by Richard Brooks

5 February 2022, 5:28 AM

Sport's highest global court has upheld FIFA former interim president Issa Hayatou's appeal against a one-year ban on him for ...

Swiss launch criminal probe of FIFA boss Infantino

by SABC Digital News

30 July 2020, 8:02 PM