Getting rid of a morally tarnished leader is often the easiest part of cleaning up an organisation. The hard work begins now within FIFA.
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Blatter’s decision to step down shocked the world. We asked a few academics to weigh in on what it means.
The inside story of an Interpol conference (sponsored by FIFA) on how to use education and research to tackle match fixing and corruption in soccer.
Blatter has stepped down, but this may not be the last we see of him.
Blatter has resigned on his own terms, at his own pace. FIFA is not saved.
The FIFA chief’s surprise resignation was the only halfway decent choice he had left. Now it’s up to the reformers to clean house.
I have lived in the US for over three decades. And I have never seen soccer – that is, real “football” – dominate the front pages of US newspapers for so many days and with so many stories. In that sense…
UEFA might lack the members to out-vote FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, but it’s got a lot of power in other forms.
The US move against corruption in FIFA, which has been both praised and condemned, strengthens America’s soft power around the world.
Blatter’s re-election reflects the powerful rejoinder he’s made to the Eurocentric view of football. But he’ll be hard pressed to outlive the latest crisis.
There is a growing business risk for sponsors from being associated with FIFA and they are better placed than UEFA even to push for reform.
Corruption at the pinnacle of sports sets a tone for all the rest. Targeting its roots is the right thing to do no matter what comes of the FBI’s investigation.
Football is a huge deal in Europe but less so in the states. So why did it take action from Loretta Lynch to topple FIFA?
While FIFA officials face charges, women footballers face poor conditions and underinvestment ahead of the World Cup.
Charges of corruption by US prosecutors against FIFA have parallels to the IOC’s problems in the 1990s.
Football’s governing body and its President Sepp Blatter are used to annual meetings which run like clockwork. US and Swiss police have made sure this time it’s different.
Palestine is spearheading an international effort to get Israel booted out of FIFA – but the organisation just wants to stay out of politics.
The big beasts of European club football have missed a chance to make a Champions League style land grab from the sport’s governing body.
A winter World Cup in Qatar is no one-off inconvenience, it’s football’s new normal.
The news that three major sponsors have ceased their partnership with FIFA could potentially damage its reputation, and more importantly, its finances. Reports on Friday revealed that Castrol, Continental…
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