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That which can become football’s biggest scandal of all time began on Wednesday morning when seven senior football leaders with links to Fifa arrested in Zurich.

 

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What can be football’s biggest scandal of all time began on Wednesday morning when seven senior football leaders with links to Fifa arrested in Zurich.

 

This has happened:

Wednesday:

06.00
At the request of US authorities and the FBI arrested seven senior football managers of Swiss police in Zurich. The New York Times writes that more than ten people are suspicious and they are suspected of various forms of corruption and money laundering.

 
        
             

     
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08:00
Data will that including two deputy chairman of FIFA – Jeffrey Webb and Eugenio Figueredo – are among those arrested and that the former CONCACAF chairman Jack Warner is one of the suspects.

30.08
Fifa spokesman Walter de Gregorio announces that the Chairman Sepp Blatter is not among those arrested.

09:00
The New York Times reports that 14 people suspected and who they are.

30.10
Swiss police make a raid against FIFA Headquarters in Zurich and seizing electronic devices and documents. Swiss

prosecutors confirmed then that earlier in the spring has started an investigation into the election of host countries for the World Cup 2018 (Russia) and 2022 (Qatar). Hearings will be held with ten members of FIFA’s executive committee who attended the vote in 2010.

The case includes alleged bribes of over $ 100 million, related to commercial contracts from the beginning of the 1990s, said the Department of Justice in Switzerland.

11.30
FIFA spokesman Walter de Gregorio leads the union’s press conference. He says the raids came as a surprise, but Blatter is calm because this was the consequence of what Fifa initiated its investigation. de Gregorio insists that Friday’s electing the Chairman will be held and that the World Cup will be played as scheduled in Russia in 2018 and Qatar 2022nd

While conducting American police raided the Concacafs headquarters in Miami. CONCACAF’s football federation for North and Central America and the Caribbean.

14:30
Data from news agencies about four people and two companies plead guilty.

16:30
At a press conference in New York, says US Attorney Loretta Lynch that 14 persons are accused in the corruption scandal that has lasted for “more than two decades.” Lynch mentioned the particular choice of South Africa to host the men’s World Cup 2010 and the FIFA president election in 2011 as corrupt processes.

20:00
Sepp Blatter says in a statement on FIFA’s website that the suspects who have high positions in FIFA, eleven of the 14 turns off during the investigation. Blatter stressed that it was FIFA who asked the Swiss authorities to conduct an investigation of the selection process for the World Cup 2018 and 2022, and FIFA will work with relevant authorities to regain confidence.

23:00
Jack Warner, the former vice-president of FIFA, which is one of the 14 suspects, surrendered himself to the police in Trinidad and Tobago. The United States have two months in which to formally request the extradition Warner.

Thursday

07:00
During the night and early morning raised more votes to FIFA chairman Blatter will not stand for re-election for a fifth term in office. See, one of FIFA’s major sponsors, threatening to end the relationship.

08:00
Sepp Blatter stands over as speaker at FIFA’s medical conference.

11:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticizes the United States, says that the arrests are an attempt to interfere in legal proceedings the United States has nothing to do. Putin says that the time for action adopted to prevent Sepp Blatter, who has been Russia’s support, elected to a new term as Chairman of FIFA.

12:00
Sepp Blatter called the six Chairmen of the continental federations to an emergency meeting.

13:30
African Football Association announced that it opposes the president election moved.

14:30
The European Football Association, UEFA, announced that it would not boycott the FIFA Congress.

15:00
UEFA chairman Michel Platini talks during a press conference that during the lunch meeting with Blatter asked the Swiss to resign.

17:15
Fifa chairman Sepp Blatter pronounce itself for the first time since the scandal exploded. He does so in conjunction with the FIFA Congress in Zurich begins. He says, among other things, that what has happened is unprecedented in FIFA’s history, and that Wednesday’s events “have cast a long shadow over football.” Blatter also said he knows that many hold him responsible, but that he can not “monitor everyone all the time, and if people want to do wrong, they will try to hide it.” He warns that there will be “some tough months” and that “more bad news” may come, but stress the importance of cooperating with the authorities and to punish the guilty – all to win back the lost confidence.