Keir Radnedge is the author of 33 sports books, encyclopaedias, biographies, statistics, quizzes etc.; Film/video/dvd scripts from the World Cup to Maradona to other main issues. He is also a broadcaster, carrying out analysis on TV (BBC, CNN, Sky, Al-Jazeera etc.). He has appeared worldwide on the radio, sports websites, magazines and in national/daily newspapers. He is also a conference moderator, operates a sponsor consultancy, publication aggregation and more… He is also Chairman of the Football Commission of AIPS, the international sports journalists' association.
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The self-inflicted damage of FIFA’s botched judicial clean sweep has been exacerbated by the resignations of two more members of the governance committee. Britain’s Ron Popper and South African Navi Pillay are the two latest departures of respected human rights specialists confirmed by the world football federation in the wake...
Five of the defendants in the world football corruption case in the United States are awaiting a final ruling on their claim for separate trials. Brazilian Jose Maria Marin, Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout, Peruvian Manuel Burga, Guatemalan Hector Trujillo and Anglo-Greek Costas Takkas believe their cases could be harmed by...
Issa Hayatou, veteran President of the African Football Confederation (CAF), faces possible corruption charges in Egypt over the awarding of television rights to the imminent Nations Cup (ACN). Cameroonian Hayatou is the Senior Vice-President of world federation FIFA and its finance committee Chairman. However he survived the ethics culls prompted...
Manuel Burga, former president of the Peruvian football federation, has been brought before a New York court and bailed on charges arising from the US$200m FIFAGate corruption inquiry. Burga was extradited from Lima at the weekend after a lengthy attempt to contest the order sought by the United States Department...
Luis Chiriboga, one-time President of the Ecuadorian football federation, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for money laundering in the latest CONMEBOL corruption case. A Quito court convicted Chiriboga, along with two co-defendants, on allegations involving nearly $6.12 million which was allegedly received from 2010 to 2015. Hugo...
The inquiry by the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) into the Rio 2016 ticketing scandal has been halted by the threat of legal action by Patrick Hickey, its own President. Hickey is currently under effective house arrest in Brazil on charges brought against him during the Games in August including...
The spectre of matchfixing has come back to haunt El Salvador, after national team players claimed they had been offered ‘third party bribes’ to win, draw or avoid a heavy defeat in yesterday’s World Cup qualifier against Canada. A heavy defeat for the Salvadorans in the match in Vancouver would have prevented...
An investigation into a payment made during Tokyo’s successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics has found no evidence of bribery. The payment had been linked to the son of the ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack, who was a member of the International Olympics Committee at the time. Japanese officials...
International financial specialist KPMG has quit as FIFA auditor, 10 days after being ridiculed for approving the excessive top-level bonus culture at the world football federation under Sepp Blatter. Blatter, general secretary and then president from 1998 until February of this year, was shown by an investigation undertaken at...
The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has set up an investigation panel to consider the scandal over the sceret ‘consultancy’ payment made in the run-up to the award of 2020 Games host rights to Tokyo. The panel includes independent lawyers and an accountant which will investigate the consultancy agreement between the...
Yet another head has fallen from the derided old FIFA ‘inner circle’ with the sacking of Markus Kattner, the Finance Director who has been interim Secretary General since last summer. Kattner, a 45-year-old German, joined the world football federation in 2003 from business consultancy corporation McKinsey in the restructing which...
Juan Pedro Damiani, the Uruguayan football director whose offshore business was revealed in the ‘Panama Papers’, has quit as a member of the Ethics Committee of world federation FIFA. Damiani, the president of former world and South American champions Peñarol, was shown to have had close business ties in the...
The Brazilian parliamentary inquiry into the running of the CBF wants to recall Marco Polo Del Nero over concerns that he misled it over foreign bank accounts. Last December Del Nero, who has been indicted by the United States Department of Justice over the FIFAGate corruption investigation, told the inquiry...
FIFA is to pursue Jeffrey Webb and the other FIFAGate crooks through the United States courts for more than “ten of millions of dollars” in restitution and damages. Webb was a vice-president of the world federation – tipped as a future leader – and head of central and north...
Jerome Champagne has expressed his ‘stupefaction’ to the FIFA electoral committee about the number of observers from the Asian and European federations being admitted to Friday’s congress. The Frenchman, pictured, one of the five presidency candidates and a former senior official of the world football federation, fears support staff members...
