While FIFA statutes currently limit a president to a maximum three four-year terms, Infantino has already prepared the ground to stay until 2031, declaring in December that his first three years at the helm did not count as a full term
17 March,2023 09:58 AM IST | Kigali | AFPIn an interview with German weekly Die Zeit released Wednesday, Blatter said that “what is happening at the moment is an overcommercialisation of the game... There are attempts to squeeze more and more out of the lemon”
22 December,2022 08:31 AM IST | Berlin | APIn a short statement, the former French football great claimed to have “won the first round,” while alluding to alleged political and judicial manipulation intended to remove him from power
09 July,2022 07:58 AM IST | Bellinzona | AFPThe case was centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier
08 July,2022 03:33 PM IST | Mumbai | APThe former FIFA chief and French football legend Platini are being tried at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court, following an investigation that began in 2015
10 June,2022 08:14 AM IST | Berne | AFPThe pair are being tried over a two million Swiss franc ($2.08 million) payment in 2011 to Platini, who was then in charge of European football’s governing body UEFA
08 June,2022 08:10 AM IST | Lausanne | AFPBlatter described this latest punishment as a "blow behind the neck, painful and incomprehensible". "The ethics commission, in its current form, is nothing like an independent body," he told AFP from a Swiss clinic where he is convalescing after two months in hospital.
25 March,2021 07:33 AM IST | Lausanne | AFPThe Zurich-based museum, a landmark Blatter project, was opened in February 2016 by current FIFA president Gianni Infantino just after he was elected as the successor to the disgraced Blatter
23 December,2020 11:38 AM IST | Geneva | APThe FIFA Council chose to back his re-election by acclamation, with Infantino now hoping to build on the work he started in February 2016, when he was voted in to succeed the disgraced Sepp Blatter at the head of the organisation
06 June,2019 09:11 AM IST | Paris | AFPDisgraced former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter defied a ban to attend World Cup matches and arrived in Russia on Tuesday at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin
20 June,2018 09:35 AM IST | Moscow | AFPADVERTISEMENT