Danny Jordaan, President of the South African Football Association (SAFA) and the former chief executive of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is one of two senior football officials who have had charges of fraud and corruption laid against them in relation to an alleged $10 million (£6.4 million/€8.9 million) bribe to secure votes to win the right to host the tournament.

Colombian Enrique Sanz has been sacked from his role as general secretary of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) as the fallout from the United States investigation into widespread corruption within FIFA continues.

If you watched Sepp Blatter’s press conference last week in Zurich, and if you’re anything like me, you would have cringed at the state of world football administration. Is this the best they can do? I’m not just talking about Blatter here either. There are 25 other people on the FIFA Executive Committee, including Michel Platini, who announced today he is standing to succeed Blatter.

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) set-up a Governance Commission tasked with creating a Sport Governance Code, they have announced. 

Here’s a thing about the international football scandal that has gripped us all and stunned some of the game’s most powerful figures.

Australian authorities have begun an inquiry into their nation’s failed bid to host the 2022 World Cup as the backlash from the FIFA scandal continues.

Three officials, including Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) general secretary Enrique Sanz, have been provisionally banned from carrying out any football-related activities by FIFA’s Independent Ethics Committee.

The United States Justice Department on Wednesday declared war on some of the most powerful figures in world football, indicting nine FIFA officials and five other executives for racketeering, conspiracy and corruption.