#sepp blatter

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BTW, US v Belgium is 8PM EDT tonight

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Gérard Depardieu & Sepp Blatter 🅘🅝 🅡🅔🅐🅛 🅖🅐🅨 🅕🅐🅝🅣🅐🅢🅨 !

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Keep talking Leah… hopefully the people we need to will listen.

Leah Williamson: 'Qatar World Cup is against everything I believe in, football is for everyone'

Speaking to i's Katherine Lucas, the England captain talks about the importance of inclusive grassroots clubs, the fight for girls' football

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A report has been published which claims that a former FIFA president (Sepp Blatter) was bribed by a 'Russian oligarch' to award hosting rights to Russia for the 2018 World Cup.

Sky Sports News on Twitter

What? How? Why? How could this happen? I am shocked. Stunned. Horrified I tell you. Unbelievable stuff. The integrity of the sport, the honesty, the belief I held about it.... all in ruins. This is something none of us expected! This report.... it’s earth shattering! Who would have thought FIFA, THE FIFA FOOTBALL FEDERATION TOOK BRIBES!! *gasp* my faith in this beautiful sport has permanently been broken. : I

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Hope Solo claims ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter sexually assaulted her

Hope Solo says former FIFA president Sepp Blatter sexually assaulted her when he grabbed her buttocks backstage at the Ballon d'Or awards in 2013.

U.S. women's national team goalkeeper Hope Solo says then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter sexually assaulted her in 2013.

Speaking to Expresso while in Portugal, Solo said Blatter "grabbed my ass" at the Ballon d'Or award ceremony.

Blatter's representative called the allegation "ridiculous" in a statement to Expresso and The Guardian.

"I had Sepp Blatter grab my ass," Solo told Expresso. "... It was at the Ballon d'Or one year, right before I went on stage. ... It's been normalized."

Hope Solo said former FIFA president Sepp Blatter grabbed her buttocks just prior to walking on stage together to present Abby Wamback with the women's world player of the year award in 2013.

Solo and Blatter walked on stage together to present the women's world player of the year to her U.S. teammate Abby Wambach.

"I was in shock and completely thrown off," Solo told the Guardian. "I had to quickly pull myself together to present my teammate with the biggest award of her career and celebrate with her in that moment, so I completely shifted my focus to Abby."

Solo said she never saw Blatter again after the ceremony and was disappointed not to be able to "tell him directly, 'Don't ever touch me!'

"That's the way I've always handled things. Directly," she added.

Blatter, now 81, was banned by FIFA in 2015 after serving as president since 1998. In 2004, he was criticized for saying women players should consider wearing more revealing uniforms, such as skimpier shorts, to bring more attention to the game.

Last month, Solo posted on Instagram in the wake of revelations about the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, and on Friday she reiterated her stance to the Guardian that more must be done to combat sexual harassment in women's sports.

"While in this instance it was Sepp Blatter, who was the most powerful man in football at the time, sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior are rampant at every level in women's sport, and it needs to stop."

Solo, who won the 2015 World Cup with the U.S., has been sidelined by an injury and has not played for the national team since a six-month suspension for criticizing opponents Sweden at the Olympics in 2016.

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“In an interview with the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, being published on Saturday, Solo, 36, claimed she “had Sepp Blatter grab my ass” at the glittering presentation of Fifa’s annual football awards for achievement during 2012. Solo presented the Fifa women’s world player of the year award on stage alongside Blatter, to her colleague on the USA team that had won the gold medal at the London Olympics, the striker Abby Wambach.” - The Guardian