Valcke is facing a nine-year ban from FIFA after an ethics investigation into several alleged offences including being connected to black market sales of World Cup tickets.

FIFA’s ethics committee has recommended imposing a nine-year ban on the governing body’s suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke.

We express our best instincts and hopes — the worst too — through many mediums but few represent the human spirit and human frailty as brightly or as loudly as sport. 

Folks on Twitter have had plenty to say about it - with mixed reactions to the verdict.

Blatter’s personal advisor Klaus Stoehlker confirmed that he will appeal against the ban and take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

Fifa vice president Juan Angel Napout has agreed to be extradited to the US to face charges in the football bribery investigation.

A total of 16 indictments are expected to be announced by the US Department of Justice.

FIFA vice-presidents Alfredo Hawit of Honduras and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay were detained on orders issued by the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ).

Latest: Two officials from football’s world governing body FIFA have been arrested this morning on suspicion “of accepting bribes of millions of dollars”, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) has announced.

“The truth is that I suspect it was the worst moment in FIFA’s history and that it will be living with the consequences for at least another seven years."

Fifa has formally opened proceedings against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini and hopes to give verdicts before the new year.

Michel Platini has filed an “urgent” appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that his 90-day provisional ban be lifted.

One of the most influential figures in Asian football over the last two decades has been banned for 10 years for bribery by FIFA’s ethics committee.

The outgoing FIFA president, currently suspended for 90 days amid a corruption scandal, was admitted to hospital in Zurich for a check-up due to stress last week.

Sepp Blatter is to remain in hospital until next week after suffering what has been described as a “small emotional breakdown”.

The man behind the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has pleaded not guilty to US charges stemming from the sprawling bribery case that has scandalised the football world.

The head of organising the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has been extradited to the United States in the Fifa bribery case.

The corruption crisis surrounding Germany’s 2006 World Cup has intensified after tax authorities launched raids on the country’s football federation (DFB) and private residences.

The Football Association is to consult its lawyers after suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter's stunning disclosure that there was an agreement fixed for the 2018 World Cup to go to Russia even before the vote took place.

The head of organising the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has agreed to be extradited to the United States in the Fifa bribery case.

FIFA’s executive committee is being urged to discuss postponing the presidential election following the crisis that has struck the world governing body.

Michel Platini is being given the full support of UEFA after his suspension by world football governing body FIFA.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have both been provisionally banned for 90 days from any football-related activity in a ruling that throws world football into total meltdown.

UEFA president Michel Platini has insisted reports that he is to be suspended by FIFA’s ethics committee are ”insidious” leaks that are ”essentially an attempt to damage my reputation”.

Sepp Blatter will turn up for work at FIFA today despite facing a recommended 90-day provisional suspension by FIFA’s ethics committee, according to his adviser.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter will not resign ahead of February’s emergency presidential election despite calls from major sponsors Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa to go now.

Coca-Cola, a top sponsor of Fifa, has called for Sepp Blatter to step down immediately as president of soccer’s governing body following a scandal involving alleged bribes and kickbacks. His departure would allow a “credible and sustainable reform process” to begin, the company said yesterday.

Blatter’s immediate response was to insist that he is staying in office until February.

Warner, who is fighting extradiction from Trinidad to the USA on corruption charges, resigned from FIFA in 2011 following a bribery scandal and has not been involved since then.

Sepp Blatter’s lawyer says that the Fifa president has told his staff he has done “nothing illegal or improper”.

THE never-ending difficulties brought by allegations of corruption against those who run international soccer must be a cause of embarrassment to those millions who love the beautiful game. 

Swiss prosecutors yesterday opened criminal proceedings against Fifa president Sepp Blatter and questioned Uefa president Michel Platini on another momentous day at football’s world governing body.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been questioned by Swiss federal police over alleged financial corruption.

Update 4:18pm Criminal proceedings have been opened against FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

FIFA cancelled a news conference at its headquarters at the last minute today, leaving a question mark over outgoing president Sepp Blatter's reason for not facing the media.

Jerome Valcke tried to secure a payoff of several million pounds from Fifa just a week before he was suspended, it can be disclosed.

Fresh arrests and charges are likely as a result of the FBI investigations into the FIFA corruption scandal, US attorney general Loretta Lynch has announced.

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FIFA is facing further questions over its role in channelling a $10mUSD payment through its accounts after fresh disclosures about South Africa’s role in the scandal.

A recent interview with Cristiano Ronaldo on CNN Espanol turned nasty, after the Real Madrid star became sick of questioning about the FIFA corruption crisis.

Michel Platini has been criticised by a rival for the FIFA presidency as “a product of the system”.

One of the most exquisitely gifted football players of his generation, Fifa presidential candidate Michel Platini likes to portray himself as an old-fashioned romantic with a mission to maintain the game’s purity.

Michel Platini has formally announced he will run for the FIFA presidency, saying he wants to restore dignity to the world governing body.

The 60-year-old Platini is the favourite to succeed Blatter in the election on February 26 after gaining the backing of four of the six FIFA confederations, including the powerful Asian bloc.