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The 48-year-old has been in charge of FIFA since February 2016. (Reuters)

Infantino sole candidate for FIFA presidency in June vote

The election will take place on June 5 in Paris ahead of the women’s World Cup

Fifa boss Gianni Infantino (left), Russian President Vladimir Putin and France’s Emmanuel Macron. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Fifa lifts Club as split hits the fans

Infantino says it’s in the best interests of football to expand the Club World Cup

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Editorial: A beautiful game of capital gain

‘​The Fifa World Cup is an extravagant symbol of so much that is wrong with this world. But let’s not kid ourselves: we are going to watch it anyway’

Thriftless: Sepp Blatte

Fifa names high rollers

Sepp Blatter and Jerome Valcke are among the officials who milked the association

CAF president Issa Hayatou.

CAF president Issa Hayatou faces challenger in bid for eighth term

Ahmad Ahmad, head of the Madagascar Football Assocation, has picked up key votes with his calls for ‘change’ against the 70 year old.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter.

Court of Arbitration for Sport maintains Sepp Blatter ban

Blatter was banned from all soccer-related activity last December along with then-European soccer boss Michel Platini.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will fight their ban.

Blatter and Platini banned by Fifa for eight years

Football moguls still in denial, claim unfair treatment and will appeal ruling of ethics committee.

Putin: Blatter deserves Nobel prize

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes Sepp Blatter is not only innocent, but deserves a Nobel prize for his stewardship of Fifa.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter.

Blatter to stick it out until he pushes through Fifa reform

While critics step up their call for Sepp Blatter’s departure amid a growing scandal, he has no plans to step down before his replacement.

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula.

Fifa $10-million – it looks, smells and tastes like a bribe

Stefaans Brümmer examines the evidence that the South Africa payment to Jack Warner was corrupt.

Former president Thabo Mbeki

How much did Mbeki and Blatter know?

What did Thabo Mbeki and Sepp Blatter know about – and do to facilitate – the $10-million "bribe" allegedly to win the 2010 World Cup vote?

Jean Deysel gets airborne in a line-out during the quarterfinal match between the Highlanders and Sharks on July 19. The Sharks won 31-27.

Fifa’s decades of corruption laid bare in Blazer guilty plea

Top Fifa official Chuck Blazer has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to influence both the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.

Mbalula: Don’t knock us

Mbalula: Don’t knock us, we’ve got a nation to build

Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has again said neither the government nor the LOC paid any bribes to Fifa officials to secure hosting rights.

Sepp Blatter leaves after a press conference.

Blatter becomes new focus of FBI probe

US media reports say the FBI has a new focus on Fifa supremo Sepp Blatter, but many are already asking who the next chief of Fifa will be.

Thriftless: Sepp Blatte

Europe should boycott World Cup to oust Blatter – UK

Pressure is mounting on Fifa’s chief, Sepp Blatter, to step down as the association’s president, while the UK calls for a boycott of the World Cup.

Thriftless: Sepp Blatte

Fifa gets a hard kick in the shins

The international football association has gone from a source of pride to one of embarrassment.

Jeffrey Webb

US indicts 14 officials in $100m Fifa corruption probe

The US Justice Department has laid conspiracy and corruption charges against nine Fifa officials and five business executives in a bribery probe.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter.

Fifa chiefs arrested on corruption charges

High-ranking Fifa and soccer officials were arrested in Zurich on US corruption charges, in what’s being described as a crisis for the organisation.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter.

Platini: Blatter lied about plans to let go of power

Uefa president Michel Platini says Sepp Blatter is desperately clinging to the reins of power because he is scared of life outside of Fifa.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter.

Blatter doesn’t see a need for campaigning

After 17 years as Fifa president Sepp Blatter refuses to step down – or to campaign. Also: "Fifa is more influential than religion".