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Chuck Blazer, a former top official at Fifa, admitted that he and other members of the Executive Committee (ExCo) at football’s global governing body, took bribes in connection with the award of the 2010 World Cup to South Africa, it emerged yesterday (Wednesday) evening.

Fifa has denied reports that its general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, authorised a $10m (€9.2m) payment from the South African government to Jack Warner, a former vice-president of football’s global governing body, in order to secure votes for South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup.

Football’s European governing body Uefa has led the calls for the scheduled election for the presidency of Fifa tomorrow (Friday) to be postponed amidst the crisis enveloping the sport’s global governing body.

Jeffrey Webb’s re-election as president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) was confirmed on Thursday as members rallied behind Sepp Blatter to continue as head of Fifa.

Gordon Derrick, the president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), has confirmed that the regional body will not adopt a block-voting approach for the upcoming presidential election at Fifa, the sport’s global governing body.

Juan Angel Napout has been re-elected as president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), with Jeffrey Webb also set to retain power at the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf).

Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) president Jeffrey Webb has called on Fifa to open up the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup as the region seeks the return of the showpiece tournament for the first time since 1994.

Competition organisers have revealed 24 metropolitan areas in the United States are interested in hosting matches at the 2016 Centennial Copa America national team football competition.

Jeffrey Webb, FIFA vice-president and president of CONCACAF, has called on football's world governing body to reintroduce the continental rotation of the World Cup.

The investigatory chamber of Fifa’s Independent Ethics Committee has said that it intends to complete its investigation into the bidding processes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups by June 9 in the wake of the latest allegations surrounding the award of the latter tournament to Qatar.

Jeffrey Webb, the president of Concacaf, football’s governing body in North and Central America and the Caribbean, has claimed that the region should be awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has signed a formal cooperation agreement with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organisation, in an effort to intensify ongoing work to combat match-fixing in the sport.

Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) president Jeffrey Webb has been announced as a speaker at the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Summit, which takes place on October 8-9 at Stamford Bridge in London.

The United States was today confirmed as the host nation for a 2016 Copa America, with the special edition of the national team tournament set to mark the centenary of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol).

Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) president Jeffrey Webb has declared his interest in moving the Gold Cup national team tournament out of the US in its entirety for the first time in the competition’s history.

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with football’s European governing body Uefa for mutual co-operation in the development of the game.