April 24 – UEFA may be concentrating on how it grapples with the effects of Covid-19 but away from the pandemic, today marks the fifth anniversary of the organisation’s Foundation for Children, using football as a tool to aid vulnerable kids particularly in less-privileged parts of the world.
April 24 – UNESCO has partnered with the Sports Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) to build a ”business case for sport integrity”.
April 23 – beIN Sports boss and Paris St Germain supremo Nasser al-Khelaifi has failed in a bid to have three prosecutors recused from a case against him in Switzerland that is part of a wider bribery investigation of FIFA.
April 22 – SIGA has updated its Universal Standards in preparation for the pilot phase of SIRVS, the rating and verification system that federations will be able to use to audit the governance integrity standards of their organisations.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Yet another significant twist has emerged over undocumented dealings between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Switzerland’s judiciary authorities.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 17 – Former FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, removed three years ago by the FIFA Council led by Gianni Infantino, has added his voice to speculation over the motives of undocumented meetings between Infantino and Switzerland’s attorney general Michael Lauber.
April 17 – Former Nigerian international Dickson Etuhu (pictured), who played for a raft English teams including Manchester City, has been banned from football in Sweden, where he last competed, for five years for attempted match-fixing.
April 17 – The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) and Soccerex are launching a series of bespoke webinars for the sports industry on hot topics impacting the sector.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 15 – Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has hailed the dropping of criminal mismanagement charges against him by Swiss prosecutors as a partial success in his bid to clear name and has dragged his successor Gianni Infantino into the narrative by implying Infantino was partly behind a conspiracy against him.
April 15 – In a joint statement from SIGA (the Sports Integrity Global Alliance) and the President’s Council on Sport, Fitness and Nutrition (PCSFN) based in the United States, the two bodies have reaffirmed their cooperation and commitment to a sports integrity reform agenda.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 14 – Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter (pictured), still under a six-year global ban from football at the age of 84 despite always protesting his innocence, has won a partial victory against his accusers with federal prosecutors in Switzerland agreeing to drop one of two cases against him for suspected criminal mismanagement.
April 14 – In a move that will fuel further suspicion over his links with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Switzerland’s federal court has prevented controversial Attorney General Michael Lauber’s (pictured) bid to rejoin investigations of corruption.
April 14 – Two former 21st Century Fox Inc. executives have been released on $15 million bail after pleading not guilty for their alleged roles in the FIFAgate scandal.
By Paul Nicholson
April 9 – The former president and board of the Trinidad and Tobago FA (TTFA) have followed through on their promise and yesterday filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against their removal and replacement by a FIFA Normalisation Committee.
April 9 – Rui Pinto, the Portuguese whistleblower whose string of incriminating revelations shook the footballing world before he was controversially extradited from Hungary to his native Portugal, has been released from pre-trial detention and placed under house arrest, his lawyers announced.