Fifa

Football’s global governing body Fifa has been ordered by a Brazilian labour court to introduce mandatory breaks for players during World Cup matches played in high temperatures.

Football’s world governing body Fifa has insisted that corporate clients are not responsible for the empty seats seen at World Cup games so far in Brazil.

Germany national team legend Franz Beckenbauer has told Fifa he will answer the questions put to him as part of a corruption investigation by June 27 at the latest, following his provisional suspension by world football’s governing body.

Fifa has provisionally banned Germany national team legend Franz Beckenbauer from taking part in any football-related activity for 90 days for not cooperating with an investigation into Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid.

Uefa president Michel Platini has stated he will no longer support Fifa counterpart Sepp Blatter and will make a decision over whether to run for the top job in world football before the draw for the 2014-15 Champions League on August 28.

Football’s world governing body Fifa voted against introducing age and term limits for its executives at its congress yesterday (Wednesday) as Sepp Blatter hit out at “disrespectful” attempts to curtail his presidency.

World football’s governing body Fifa has announced a positive annual financial result of $72m (€52.9m) for the 2013 financial year, with revenues increasing to $1.386bn.

Greg Dyke and Michael van Praag, the heads of football’s English and Dutch national associations, spoke out against Sepp Blatter’s leadership of world governing body Fifa as the Swiss faced a tense meeting with delegates of European governing body Uefa yesterday (Tuesday).

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has moved to defend spending on preparations for the 2014 World Cup, while Fifa has denied that it is making major revenues from the football showpiece at the expense of the Brazilian people.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has bemoaned what he described as a “storm against Fifa” over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

Fifa’s commercial partners have waded into the debate over the governing body’s handling of the bidding process that led to the award of the hosting rights for football’s 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

Eduardo Paes, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, has claimed that organisers of the 2014 Fifa World Cup international football tournament have made a mistake by planning to stage matches in 12 different cities.

Uefa president Michel Platini has claimed attempts are being made to “tarnish” his reputation by linking him to the corruption allegations surrounding Qatar’s successful bid to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament.

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.

The spotlight on the controversial award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar has intensified after former Fifa Executive Committee member Mohamed bin Hammam was accused of making payments totalling $5m (€3.6m) to senior football officials in exchange for support for the bid.

Fifa presidential candidate Jerome Champagne has maintained he will continue with his campaign as incumbent Sepp Blatter confirmed his intention to stand for another term as head of world football’s governing body.