After only eight months under Bulat Chagaev's ownership, Swiss club Neuchatel Xamax has been kicked out of the country's soccer league for financial irregularities, according to the Guardian. Chagaev, a businessman from war-torn Chechnya, ...
AP GENEVA -- Swiss authorities say they have arrested the Chechen owner of Neuchatel Xamax, hours after the soccer club said it would file for bankruptcy. Geneva prosecutors said in a statement Thursday that Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev was ...
GENEVA — Swiss authorities say they have arrested the Chechen owner of Neuchatel Xamax, hours after the soccer club said it would file for bankruptcy. Geneva prosecutors said in a statement Thursday that Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev was arrested ...
NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (AP) — Stricken Swiss side Neuchatel Xamax slipped from crisis into shame and near-oblivion Thursday, as its Chechen owner was arrested hours after declaring the club bankrupt. Bulat Chagaev was detained by authorities in Geneva ...
Neuchatel Xamax have failed to win back their Swiss Super League licence prior to the restart of the season on February 4, after two courts ruled against the club. The club were stripped of their license on January 18 less than a year after being taken ...
Women's Professional Soccer's Board of Governors on Monday canceled the 2012 season, choosing to use the year to fight its legal battle against magicjack owner Dan Borislow, and return in 2013. It's a move they threatened three weeks ago when a Florida ...
GENEVA (AP) — Even having Sepp Blatter as honorary president couldn't save Neuchatel Xamax from losing its license to continue playing in Switzerland's Super League on Wednesday. Still, the FIFA president's longtime adviser Walter Gagg is leading an ...
GENEVA (AP) — Neuchatel Xamax players are leaving the humiliated club which faces expulsion from the Swiss Super League because of its Chechen owners' financial mismanagement. FC Sion says it has signed Sebastian Wuethrich and Vullnet Basha, ...
Neuchatel Xamax have filed for bankruptcy after failing to win their Swiss Super League licence back, and the club's owner, Chechen Bulat Chagaev, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. “Neuchatel Xamax has decided to file for bankruptcy because of ...
By Frank Giase/The Star-Ledger View full sizeby Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesUS Soccer's Ricardo Clark celebrates after scoring the winning goal in the final moments of a 1-0 victory against Venezuela in a friendly match in t at University of Phoenix ...