FIFA's disgraced ex-president Sepp Blatter has told AFP he will go to next year's World Cup in Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, despite being banned from football.
Fifa's World Football Museum in Zurich, a landmark project of disgraced former president Sepp Blatter, is not under threat of closure despite a new round of redundancies according to its director.
Sport's highest court on Monday rejected the appeal of former Fifa president Sepp Blatter against a six-year ban signalling
the end of his efforts to clear his name.
Fifa plans to close its loss-making $142 million World Football Museum, a landmark project of ousted president Sepp Blatter, which was only opened eight months ago, a Fifa source said on Friday.
Fifa’s multi-million franc new museum, which opened earlier this year in Zurich, has recorded a loss of 30 million francs this year, according to reports.
Fifa's disgraced former secretary general Markus Kattner has begun legal action to challenge his "unjustified" sacking, a source close to the German told AFP on Tuesday.
Banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his former chief lieutenants were under investigation Friday over illicit bonuses totalling $80 million (71million euros), FIFA's ethics committee said.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino's salary has been fixed at 1.5 million Swiss francs a year (1.38 million euros, $1.5 million), world football's governing body revealed on Wednesday.
Sepp Blatter is back in court in Switzerland on Thursday in a final bid for redemption as he seeks to overturn a six-year ban from football following more than a year of scandal.
Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter will appear in person at the Court of Arbitration for Sport for his August 25th appeal against his ban from football, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
Swiss investigators have searched the Fifa headquarters as the world football governing body revealed that former president Sepp Blatter and two of his deputies awarded themselves more than $80 million in often suspicious payments over the past five years.
Uefa will hold an election for a new president on September 14th in Athens after Michel Platini quit over an ethics scandal with football's world governing body Fifa.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday rejected an appeal by Michel Platini against a six year ban from football saying it was "not convinced" a $2 million payment from football's world governing body Fifa was legitimate.
UPDATED: Uefa's fallen chief Michel Platini mounted a final challenge against his six-year ban from football on Friday in an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), with ally-turned-foe Sepp Blatter testifying for Fifa.
Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter will testify during Michel Platini's appeal against his ban from football, following a request from world football's governing body, a source close to the case told AFP on Tuesday.
UEFA president Michel Platini on Wednesday made a formal appeal against his six year ban from football at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the tribunal said.
Sepp Blatter congratulated Gianni Infantino on being elected his successor as FIFA president following a campaign focused on the need to condemn his scandal-plagued 18-year era to the past.
Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter claimed on Friday that the $2-million (€1.8 million) payment he made to Uefa president Michel Platini was a "gentleman's agreement".
Fifa president Sepp Blatter appealed against the 90-day ban that forced him out of office, his lawyers confirmed on Friday, as world football's scandal-tainted governing body headed into months of turmoil over how to find a new leader.
After powerful Fifa sponsors demanded his immediate resignation, a key question surrounded Sepp Blatter on Saturday: can the scandal-tainted president of world football's governing body survive until his planned departure in February?
Fifa should appoint an interim leader to replace embattled president Sepp Blatter to make reforms and steer the Zurich-based world football body out of its massive corruption scandal, a former Fifa reform chief said Sunday.
Beleaguered Fifa president Sepp Blatter was placed under a criminal investigation in a dramatic escalation of the corruption scandal engulfing world football as would-be successor Michel Platini came under scrutiny for receiving a murky multi-million-dollar payment.
Swiss prosecutors said Fifa agreed on Thursday to hand over the emails of suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke, evidence that had been demanded as part of a massive corruption probe into World Cup bidding.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter sold off television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups to disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner at a knockdown price, Swiss media have claimed.
