First Aussie in FIFA executive committee

FIFA adopted tough new measures in soccer's fight against racism yesterday when delegates at its Congress approved their introduction by 204 votes to one. The proposals, introduced by Jeffrey Webb, the CONCACAF president and chairman of the ...

MAURITIUS -- FIFA member associations have approved the anti-racism and discrimination resolutions proposed by the governing body's newly-formed task force chaired by FIFA vice president, Jeffrey Webb, during its 63rd Congress held in Mauritius on ...

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — The Fifa Congress yesterday passed a reform packet promising more democracy and transparency within the ruling football body with an overwhelming majority. The delegates in the Mauritian capital of Port Louis voted 198-2 ...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has risked criticism for comments made while congratulating the new female members of the executive committee. Sepp Blatter made hairy comments when congratulating Lydia Nsekera Are there ladies in the room? Say ...

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — The FIFA Congress opened Thursday with reduced expectations for reform after one area flagged for change was set to be delayed for at least a year. With undercurrents of soccer politics at play, representatives of FIFA's ...

Reuters Enlarge photo PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter's two-year campaign to change the public perception of FIFA as a corrupt organisation run by self-interested old men, reaches its moment of truth at the governing body's annual Congress in ...

PORT LOUIS: Former CONCACAF leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer should face the full force of the law for their alleged misdemeanours during the two decades that they ran the confederation, Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's Audit and Compliance ...

Making his presidential address to delegates from 208 of the world governing body's 209 members at the 63rd FIFA Congress, Blatter said the wide-ranging reform process started two years had changed the organisation but the modifications and fights ...

the FIFA president may be 77 and contemplating staying in office into his 80s, his attempts at widespread reform have already produced a different looking organisation than the one engulfed in scandal and crisis two years ago.