The EU has suspended direct financial support for Burundi after concluding that the authorities in the central African nation had not done enough to find a political solution to a conflict that has so far cost more than 400 lives.
Gianni Infantino pulled off a stunning victory Friday to take over as FIFA president, and called for a fresh start for soccer's scandal-wracked world body.
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa's bid to take over as FIFA president received a massive boost on Friday with the Asian football chief getting the powerful backing of the African continent.
Jérôme Valcke, the suspended secretary general of Fifa and Sepp Blatter’s long-time associate, has been sacked with immediate effect.
The embattled president of world football's governing body FIFA , Sepp Blatter, is pledging to fight an eight-year ban from all football-related activities imposed by the organization’s ethics committee. The three-man FIFA panel applied a similar ban on the Head of European Soccer, Michel Platini.
