Blatter and Platini, a former France national team captain who was president of European governing body UEFA, faced sentences of up to five years for financial wrongdoing but actual jail…
The fallout from the case ousted Sepp Blatter ahead of schedule as president of FIFA and ended Michel Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor. In 2015, federal prosecutors in…
Two officials from the world soccer organization FIFA, including the president of Union of European Football Associations, have been charged with fraud and other offenses. It developed after a six-year…