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Fifa’s ethics committee has called for a change in rules to allow for more information to be released about ongoing investigations at football’s global governing body.

US senators yesterday (Wednesday) called for an extensive overhaul in the way football is administered by both global and US governing bodies, as a collective of labour union and human rights groups stepped up their campaign for reform at Fifa.

The office for the Swiss Attorney General has said that new evidence has emerged of 28 new acts of possible money laundering in relation to the bidding contests for football’s Fifa 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Adidas chief executive Herbert Hainer has stated that Uefa president Michel Platini would be the best choice to succeed Sepp Blatter as president of football’s global governing body Fifa.

Fifa has today (Thursday) banned former Executive Committee member Chuck Blazer from all football-related activities for life, while the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has chosen Sonia Bien-Aime to replace its suspended president Jeffrey Webb on the Fifa ExCo.

Harold Mayne-Nicholls will appeal against a seven-year ban from football by the ethics committee of Fifa, the sport’s global governing body.

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has unveiled a sweeping reform package as it seeks to clean house following a second Fifa corruption scandal in the space of four years.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has claimed there were “political interventions” from the presidents of France and Germany ahead of the voting for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, stating criticism over the award of the tournaments to Russia and Qatar should not be solely directed at world football’s governing body.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has maintained his conscience is clean and warned anyone who associates him with the ongoing scandal in world football “should go to jail”, as it emerged today (Thursday) that the United States has submitted a formal request for Switzerland to extradite seven Fifa officials arrested as part of a corruption investigation in Zurich in May.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into corruption in football is unprecedented and has presented the sports marketing industry with a number of complicated questions. We canvassed industry insiders to try to answer five of the most pressing questions.

LaLiga, the new brand name for the Spanish Football League, has filed an appeal against the decision by the sport’s global governing body Fifa to switch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from the summer to the winter.

Sepp Blatter has added a fresh layer of intrigue surrounding his future at Fifa by stating he has not quit as president of world football’s governing body, comments that have furthered speculation that he may still seek to remain at the helm.

FIFA Fan Fests were a natural development of the large-scale public viewings that were staged by some of host cities during the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. Although FIFA had no official involvement in these events, their high interest and popularity encouraged world football’s governing body to hold the first official Fan Fests at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

With fan festivals attracting huge populations of the host city, the top priority for rights-holders is safety. Helmut Spahn, director general of ICSS (the International Centre for Sport Security), tells Elisha Chauhan how difficult it is for event organisers to address concerns in this area.

Elisha Chauhan asks leading fan zone stakeholders how they organise their fan festivals and what makes them successful, including case studies of best practice, as well as how to manage safety and security at these mass participation events.