The Ethics Committee of world football
governing body, FIFA has banned 11 top officials including its executive
members from all football-related activities.
The banned individuals are: Jeffrey
Webb, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Jack Warner, Eugenio Figueredo, Rafael
Esquivel, José Maria Marin, Nicolás Leoz, Chuck Blazer and Daryll Warner.
South Africa’s Sports Minister, Fikile
Mbalula, has said that South Africa’s successful bid for the 2010 World Cup has
not been tainted in any shape or form.
Mbalula was speaking a day after the
game was plunged into turmoil following the arrest of senior FIFA officials on
corruption charges. He also said that all 2010 soccer World
Cup funds are accounted for and audited.
» Meanwhile Sepp Blatter Refuses To Quit
FIFA President Sepp Blatter who is seeking a fifth term as president has refused to
resign following a request from UEFA chief, Michel Platini, and then opened the
65th FIFA congress in Zurich. The 79-year-old held an emergency
meeting with key FIFA officials on Friday after world football’s governing body
was subjected to yet more damaging corruption claims.
He then met Platini alone, at which
point he was urged to quit, but refused and vowed to carry on with his mandate. Reports has it that Blatter, appears to still have the support of the Confederation Of African
Football (CAF) as well as the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
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