That's the tough part about the game of soccer, sometimes you're right in front of the open goal and you still miss hitting the net.

Dec 27, 2011
The decision by a canton (state) Zug court was reported Tuesday by Zurich business weekly Handelszeitung. It rejects multiple appeals blocking the publication of the documents. The latest decision is now open to further appeal for 30 days.

Blatter has said he was cleared of any wrongdoing in all aspects of the ISL case. Still, the court document could give details of his awareness of kickbacks being paid at a time...

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2011/12/27/sp-soccer-fifa-kickbacks-document.html


Jan 26, 2012...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/13/us-soccer-fifa-warner-idUSTRE80C2FG20120113

(Reuters) - Ousted former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner said Friday he had documented evidence to back his claim that he was gifted World Cup television rights in return for FIFA votes and accused the organization of being "disingenuous and dishonest."

"To choose to respond only to the allegation that FIFA sold to me the FIFA World Cup Rights for Trinidad and Tobago for one dollar ($1.00) USD in 1998 and refuse to even comment on the other accusations that the FIFA World Cup Rights for 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 were also sold to me at a nominal fee is nothing more than deception," he said in a statement Friday.

"FIFA... damns itself for withdrawing the said FIFA World Cup Rights for 2018 and 2022 after it was alleged that I refused to support the presidency of Mr Blatter.

"These actions can stand alone as demonstrative of the fact that there has been a relationship between the roles I played in the success of Blatter's presidential campaigns and the award of FIFA World Cup Rights to me.

I saw an article in SoccerAmerica that Blatter is losing support. This guy needs to go to jail!

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/world...-officer-011312

ZURICH (AP)
FIFA has cut another tie to disgraced former vice president Jack Warner, ending his son Daryll's job as a Caribbean development officer.

FIFA says in a statement that Daryll Warner is not on its staff but declined to give further details ''due to employment confidentiality reasons.''

http://www.espnstar.com/football/news/detail/item736899/Scudamore:-Hard-to-respect-FIFA/

"FIFA have had their difficulties, it's very hard to have huge regard for the institution the way it's performed in the last couple of years. -Richard Scudamore, Premier League chief executive

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012...tial-bid160101/

A former French diplomat, member of the 1998 World Cup organising committee in France and journalist with France Football magazine, (Jerome) Champagne was widely perceived as the one senior executive at FIFA untainted by corruption allegations before being sacked in mysterious circumstances in 2010.

Concerned over what FIFA’s new Independent Governance Committee, chaired by Swiss Professor Mark Pieth, can achieve, Champagne has produced an impressively detailed 25-page document identifying seven key governance problems and 11 proposals for reform, detailed in a moment.

http://www.insideworldfootball.biz/world...heads-to-brazil

January 15 - Under fire Brazilian powerbroker Ricardo Teixeira will be conspicuous by his absence when FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke flies to Brazil today for his latest bi-monthly series of World Cup 2014 meetings.

Teixeira has been under increasing pressure surrounding a fraud investigation against him at home and the possibility of FIFA releasing files relating the collapse of their former marketing partner ISL, which are believed to incriminate the Brazil 2014 chief.

Teixeira, recently hospitalised suffering from abdominal pain and understood to be still too unwell to carry out his role as head of Brazil 2014, has been keeping a low profile in recent weeks amid speculation that he is being marginalised in favour of Ronaldo, top scorer in World Cup history and recently appointed on to the local Organising Committee's management Board to deal with mounting concerns over legal issues and infrastructure delays.

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/world...isl-file-011612

Brazil's FIFA member Ricardo Teixeira is expected to lodge an appeal in the Swiss federal court this week to try to prevent the now-infamous ISL file being published.

The court action by Teixeira means that FIFA's plans to publish the file, which names FIFA executives who took kickbacks from World Cup television deals from now-defunct marketing firm ISL, could be delayed for as long as six months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/david...r?newsfeed=true

Mark Pieth, professor of criminology at the Basel Institute, appointed by Blatter to chair this committee, told the Guardian that at Thursday's inaugural meeting it will consider an examination into what has been happening at Fifa.

"It is a matter for the independent governance committee to decide whether it is going to call for a fuller investigation into the past," Pieth said, "and who should be conducting it."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/david...r?newsfeed=true

Blatter was accused last month by Jack Warner, his former ally...

Any investigation by Fifa's ethics committee has to be initiated by Blatter himself, the secretary-general, Jérôme Valcke or the executive committee as a whole, and no investigation or reference to the ethics committee followed Warner's remarkable allegation against Blatter. Warner was not interviewed by anybody. Instead Fifa simply issued a statement rejecting his claim.

This inconsistent response, and Blatter's recent emphasis on "putting the past to bed", has reinforced for many a sense of him clinging to his position at Fifa by means of his road map, not genuinely wanting to root out alleged wrongdoing during his presidency.

Since the... vote to host the 2018 World Cup, the dyke has burst on a flood of Fifa corruption stories. Seven members of Fifa's executive committee – its most senior decision‑making body, which awards the World Cup – have faced serious allegations, finally and most recently including Blatter himself. Yet the differing official reaction by Fifa to the allegations, with Blatter's rivals banned for life but no investigation even started into him, has itself illustrated a core fault line in the organisation's credibility.