World Jul 08 Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA By Daniella Matar, Associated Press
World Nov 02 Former FIFA bosses indicted for fraud in Switzerland Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors after a six-year investigation into a controversial $2 million payment. By Graham Dunbar, Associated Press
World Dec 21 FIFA bans Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from soccer for eight years FIFA's ethics court has banned president Joseph "Sepp" Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini from soccer for eight years in the latest fallout from investigations of corruption in the organization. By Corinne Segal
World Sep 25 Watch 4:55 News Wrap: Saudi officials blame pilgrims for deadly stampede In our news wrap Friday, Saudi authorities launched an investigation into the deadly stampede among hajj pilgrims near Mecca, but officials also blamed the crowd as well as the will of god. Also Sepp Blatter, head of soccer’s world body… By PBS News Hour
World Sep 25 Swiss open criminal proceedings against FIFA president Sepp Blatter The Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings Friday against FIFA president Joseph “Sepp” Blatter on suspicions of “criminal mismanagement” and “misappropriation.”… By Gretchen Frazee
Jun 02 Watch 4:56 Does the end of Sepp Blatter mean a new start for soccer? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 02 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces he will step down By Margaret Myers Less than a week after a corruption scandal rocked the soccer world, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who maintained he was the man to lead soccer's international governing body, has stepped down. Continue reading
May 29 Watch 8:06 Re-elected FIFA president Blatter faces corruption fallout By PBS News Hour Days after top officials were arrested on major corruption charges, Joseph “Sepp” Blatter won a fifth term as the head of FIFA, the governing body of the World Cup and international soccer. To discuss the geopolitics and economics behind Blatter’s… Continue watching
May 29 FIFA president re-elected despite corruption probe By News Desk Sepp Blatter won a fifth term as president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, on Friday, at the end of a week of major developments in separate Swiss and American investigations into widespread corruption in the soccer… Continue reading
May 28 Watch 3:21 Leadership under scrutiny, critics call for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to resign By PBS News Hour Amid a $150 million corruption scandal, critics are calling for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to step down. On Friday, he will stand for election as a fifth term as head of soccer’s governing body. Hari Sreenivasan has the story. Continue watching