FIFA president Gianni Infantino has put forward a new 48-team format for the 2026 World Cup in a speech in Colombia on Monday.
A fugitive inmate and the female guard who helped him escape from a Swiss prison were arrested in northern Italy, police said.
Sepp Blatter turned 80 on Thursday, with a party planned at a luxury hotel in Zurich, as Switzerland's criminal investigation into his FIFA presidency looked set to intensify.
Europe's Gianni Infantino and Asian football leader Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa led the five man battle for votes ahead of crisis-stricken FIFA's landmark vote on Friday for a new president.
FIFA's disgraced president Sepp Blatter returned to the headquarters of world football's governing on body to face an appeals committee he hopes will overturn his eight-year ban from the sport.
FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa plans to keep the world soccer body’s headquarters in Zurich and retain the name “FIFA” if he wins the race for the game’s top job later this month.
Barcelona star Lionel Messi won a record fifth FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player at a ceremony in Zurich on Monday.
