FIFA
FIFA has come under pressure from several European soccer federations who want to support a human rights campaign against discrimination at the World Cup.
The case centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter’s approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier.
Russia had asked for a temporary halt to a FIFA competition ban sparked by the country's invasion of Ukraine.
The former officer spied on rival bids and then kept tabs on Qatar’s critics in the soccer world, an investigation by The Associated Press found.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
"What else is there at the World Cup?"
USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone wants the men’s national team to allow the reallocation of FIFA’s World Cup payments to the federation to the women’s team.
In her acceptance speech, the USWNT star urged athletes to use their public platforms to challenge bigotry and "lift other people up."
"I’ll say: ‘I don’t get it. How are you simultaneously as proud as punch of me, and watching Fox News all the time, doing takedowns of your daughter?'"
The U.S. women's soccer coach led the team since 2014, guiding them to secure back-to-back World Cup titles.
The goalkeeper tweeted a response to a video of the former Texas Tech star: "You don’t belong in a sport that aims to unite and bring people together.”