Tag: Chuck Blazer

• Thursday, June 4th 2015 - 08:17 UTC

  Whistleblower Blazer admitted receiving bribes for hosts of 1998 and 2010 World Cups

  

  Former FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer told a U.S. federal judge that he and others on the governing body's ruling panel agreed to receive bribes in the votes for the hosts of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.

• Saturday, November 8th 2014 - 10:18 UTC

  Former US soccer leader Blazer spied on FIFA as an FBI informant

  

  Chuck Blazer, once the most powerful man in US soccer, was an FBI informant used to spy on Fifa, the New York Daily News reports. Blazer, who is now suffering from cancer, secretly recorded conversations with officials he arranged to meet at his London hotel during the 2012 Olympics, the report said.