Tag: Andrew Jennings

• Friday, July 17th 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  Comparing FIFA to the mafia “is almost insulting to the mafia”. US Senate grills soccer federation

  

  Comparing FIFA to the mafia is “almost insulting to the mafia”, a US senator said, turning up the heat on football's corruption-tainted world governing body to reform. Richard Blumenthal made the remark at a Senate subcommittee hearing scrutinizing FIFA, after US authorities in May indicted 14 people - including top football officials over tens of millions of dollars of alleged bribes for media rights contracts.