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FIFA to host Palestinians, Saudis for talks on venue spat

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Corruption crisis sees UEFA, FIFA call off friendly match

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FIFA President Sepp Blatter drives his car into the garage of the FIFA headquarters on his way to work in Zurich, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. Blatter was questioned by Swiss investigators on Friday about why FIFA paid 2 million Swiss francs (about $2 million) to UEFA President Michel Platini in 2011 for work supposedly carried out at least nine years earlier. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

FIFA bans Blatter ally Warner for life over repeated bribery

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2014 file photo FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures as he attends a press conference in Marrakech, Morocco. On Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings against FIFA President Sepp Blatter. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Swiss police open criminal case against FIFA head Blatter

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE-- In this Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, photo, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, right, hands the official ball for the 2010 soccer World Cup, called Jabulani, to World Cup organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan in Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa's main opposition party, The Democratic Alliance, said it filed papers with police on Monday asking them to investigate the involvement of former World Cup head Danny Jordaan and former South African Football Association President Molefi Oliphant in alleged bribery to get the World Cup. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, FILE)

FIFA to brief executive committee on US, Swiss probes

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, May 29, 2015 file photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter after his election as President, left, is greeted by UEFA President Michel Platini, right, at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. At the start of his seventh decade and his third term as UEFA president, Michel Platini still seems to prefer to do much of his talking on the pitch despite being the most powerful figure in European football and the favorite to be installed as Sepp Blatter's FIFA successor in February 2016. (Patrick B. Kraemer/Keystone via AP, File)

Election favorite Platini silent as FIFA crisis escalates

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Michael Lauber (left), attorney general of Switzerland, and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch arrive for the a news conference on soccer related criminal proceedings, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 14, 2015. Lynch says she expects more indictments in a widening investigation of corruption implicating FIFA. (Anthony Anex/Keystone via Associated Press)

Loretta Lynch: More arrests expected in FIFA corruption probe

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Jordan's Prince Ali bin al-Hussein attends a press conference for the launch of his FIFA presidency campaign, in London, in this Feb. 3, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein still deciding whether to run for FIFA president

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

FIFA President Sepp Blatter speaks during the preliminary draw for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, July 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky

FIFA scandal: A game of kickbacks

By Jabbar Wesley

FIFA President Sepp Blatter watches the preliminary draw for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, July 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

How the U.S. brought down FIFA

By Patricia Guadalupe

A handout photo, provided by Fox Sports, of David Neal, the network's Executive Producer of FIFA World Cup. Neal joined Fox Sports in 2013 and has more than 30 years of television experience. (Courtesy Fox Sports)

The Conversation: Fox Sports’ David Neal on Women’s World Cup, future of U.S. soccer

By Nora Princiotti - The Washington Times

A worker installs a banner outside the Nobel Peace Center for Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo Thursday Dec. 9, 2010 in Oslo, Norway. A day before the Nobel committee honors Liu, an imprisoned Chinese dissident with its peace prize, China ratched up the rhetoric calling the award "an interference" in its internal affairs. The exhibit is called "I Have No Enemies." (AP Photo/John McConnico)

FIFA criticizes Nobel Peace Center for canceled project

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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 file photo, FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces Russia to host the 2018 World Cup during the announcement of the host country for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA has been plunged into crisis since seven officials were arrested in dawn raids last week at a luxury Zurich hotel and in a separate probe, Swiss authorities are investigating the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests, which went to Russia and Qatar. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Could Sepp Blatter try to stay on FIFA president?

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, right, and Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, left, walk along an embankment of Volga river in Samara, Russia, Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Valcke came to attend a 2018 World Cup board meeting. (AP Photo)

FIFA postpones start of 2026 World Cup bidding amid turmoil

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Afternoon News with Tim Constantine June 10, 2015

Afternoon News with Tim Constantine (June 10, 2015)

By Tim Constantine

Tim Constantine News June 4, 2015

Afternoon News with Tim Constantine (June 4, 2015)

By Tim Constantine

The U.S.'s Abby Wambach said the second-place finish in the 2011 World Cup put the team "in a position where people were talking about us again." (Associated Press)

U.S. Women’s National Team seeks to build on momentum in World Cup

By Thomas Floyd - Special to The Washington Times

South Africa's sports minister Fikile Mbalula gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Mbalula "categorically" denied on Wednesday that the $10 million paid to former FIFA official Jack Warner in 2008 was a bribe for his help in securing the World Cup. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South African police investigating World Cup bribes

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2005 file photo, Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) general secretary Chuck Blazer attends a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Blazer, a former FIFA executive committee member, told a U.S. federal judge he and others on the governing body's ruling panel agreed to receive bribes as part of the vote that picked South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup, according to a transcript of the 2013 hearing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn unsealed by prosecutors Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer, File)

FIFA executive committee member Blazer admitted bribes

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

In this June 2, 2011, file photo, suspended FIFA executive Jack Warner gestures during a news conference at the airport in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Interpol added six men with ties to FIFA to its most wanted list on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, issuing an international alert for two former FIFA officials and four executives on charges including racketeering and corruption. Two of the men, former FIFA vice president Jack Warner of Trinidad and former executive committee member Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay, have been arrested in their home counties. Warner has since been released and Leoz is under house arrest. (AP Photo/Shirley Bahadur, File)

Interpol issues ‘red notice’ for 6 linked to FIFA probe

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