KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - (AFP) - Ousted Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam has appealed his lifetime ban from football over accusations he sought to buy votes in this year's FIFA presidential election, he said Thursday.
Writing on his personal blog, bin Hammam vowed defiantly to fight on in an ugly split with FIFA President Sepp Blatter that has tarnished the football body's reputation and hig [...]
ZURICH (AFP) - (AFP) - Asian football supremo Mohamed bin Hammam was banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA's ethics committee.
The 62-year-old Qatari, the president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had been accused of trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $40,000 cash gifts to Caribbean football of [...]
ZURICH (AFP) - (AFP) - Mohamed bin Hammam admitted he was expecting a "guilty verdict" after opting not to attend the start of a two-day FIFA ethics committee hearing into bribery allegations against him here on Friday.
The 62-year-old Qatari, suspended from all football activity since May 29, is accused of attempting to buy the FIFA presidency by offering $40,000 cash gifts to Caribbean footba [...]
ZURICH (AFP) - (AFP) - Mohamed Bin Hammam touched down here on Thursday to face bribery allegations that have thrust a harsh spotlight onto the gloomy machinations of world football's governing body FIFA.
Grey skies blanketed the Swiss financial capital as the 62-year-old Qatari arrived to answer charges that he attempted to buy the FIFA presidency by offering cash in exchan [...]
PARIS (AFP) - (AFP) - FIFA has made no comment on the retraction of claims by a former bid official who alleged that Qatar paid bribes to three FIFA members to secure the World Cup in 2022.
Phaedra al-Majid, who worked as a press officer for Qatar 2022, told the BBC on Sunday she wanted to avenge losing her job on the campaign, but now had decided to go public to admit that the alle [...]
DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) - (AFP) - A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) figure asked Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Qatar to reconsider their policy of never having sent a woman to an Olympic Games at their session here on Friday.
"We hope that these three countries will send women to next year's Olympic Games in London," declared Anita DeFrantz, the American president of the [...]
PARIS (AFP) - (AFP) - The organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Thursday dismissed reports that games at the tournament will be broken into three 'halves' in order to spare players from the intense summer heat.
Michael Beaven, a director of Arup Associates, who are working on technology to cool stadiums in the Gulf state, had suggested on Wednesday that matches could be split [...]
AL-RAM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Palestine had a frustrating baptism of fire in their first ever World Cup home qualifier, drawing 1-1 on Sunday against Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, in the wake of their 2-0 win against the Afghans on Wednesday in Tadjikistan, Sunday's result was enough to take the Palestinians into the second round, where they will play Thailand.
Afgha [...]
LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, according to a secret report by the organisation's ethics committee obtained by Britain's Press Association.
There was "comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming" evidence against Bin Hammam, the head of the Asian Football Confederation, and former FIFA vice-pr [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Four contestants have entered the fray to head the Iraqi Football Association (IFA) in an election Saturday that is expected to end two years of paralysis and problems with FIFA.
The candidates are IFA deputy head Najeh Hmoud, former star player Ahmed Radhi, as well as Falah Hassan and Mahmoud Jassim al-Saadi, respectively the chairman of Baghdad's top-rated [...]
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