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Dec. 20th, 2014 09:19 am
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Tis the season before the transfer window! tra la la la la la

Dec. 17th, 2014 09:31 am
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news and gossip

Dec. 9th, 2014 10:09 am
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Nov. 26th, 2014 08:47 am
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Final results excluding Sporting vs Maribor-- will update when I get the other graphic, k?
( you know the drill- news pics and more )
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news and gossip

Nov. 14th, 2014 09:22 am
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The FA come under fire as FIFA attack England World Cup bid... but clear Qatar!

Nov. 13th, 2014 08:43 am
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( wtf did I just read? Oh, and some pictures  )
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Sepp Blatter allegedly heard saying that the WC in Qatar won't happen

Nov. 10th, 2014 06:07 pm
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The World Cup in 2022 is not going to happen in Qatar, says Sepp Blatter according to the sources of Der Spiegel. The president of FIFA is said to have said this during a dinner held by the Norway Football Association in October.

The decision to choose Qatar to host the Cup has been the target of massive criticism for a long time. The complaints have regarded the hot climate which would make it difficult for the players as seen in Brazil and the poor conditions of the workers building the stadiums. Recent studies claim that at least 1400 workers have died due to the dangerous working conditions and many others are practically working as slaves. Earlier FIFA had confirmed that the Cup is likely to be held in winter, but apparently IOC (International Olympic Committee) is not keen on the idea since it could possibly affect the Winter Olympics held in the same year.

FIFA is currently having an investigation about the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, as there have been rumours about corruption affecting the choosing of the host countries, but no decision has been reached yet.

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No idea if this is even relevant or just random speculation, but I saw this in the news today and thought that it could have some truth to it since these sources are respectable news agencies. Also first post ever, so apologies for messiness. Sources translated by yours truly.
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'Russia’s heart & soul': World Cup 2018 logo unveiled in Moscow

Oct. 28th, 2014 09:40 pm
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A still from RT video

The official emblem of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia has been unveiled in Moscow and by the cosmonauts at the International Space Station.

The logo was then projected onto the iconic Bolshoi Theater building in the heart of Russian capital, Moscow.

The ceremony was broadcast live during the popular Evening Urgant television talk show, which was attended by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, Italian football great Fabio Cannavaro and Russia's sports minister, Vitaly Mutko.

Blatter, who saw the logo before the show, said that he liked it very much as it reflected the heart and soul of Russia as well the country’s cultural traditions, TASS news agency reports.

In his earlier interview with FIFA’s official website, Mutko, said that "winning the right to host the FIFA World Cup was a dream come true for millions of Russians."

"To creatively capture the essence of this remarkable historic moment inspiration was drawn from both Russia's rich artistic tradition and its history of bold achievement and innovation," he said. "I hope that fans around the world will appreciate and love the Russia 2018 emblem.”
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UEFA president Platini voted for Russia and Qatar, says it was "the right decision."

Sep. 8th, 2014 10:59 pm
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UEFA president Michel Platini has said awarding the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar was "the right decision."

Speaking to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Platini said he had voted for both host nations -- a decision he said he had taken for "the development of football."

Platini also told the paper he opposed European Union suggestions that the 2018 Russia World Cup should be boycotted because of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

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not sure... if these people listen to themselves when they speak.
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Political messiness with the next World Cup approaching

Jul. 28th, 2014 03:19 pm
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FIFA and Putin Understand Each Other Very Well

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Last year the Kremlin published photographs of a meeting at which Gazprom (GAZP:RM), Russia’s state-controlled energy giant, became the highest-level sponsor of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the organization that runs international soccer. There was FIFA President Sepp Blatter, alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller, and Vitaly Mutko, who is both head of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Sport and a member of FIFA’s executive committee.

Just a group of guys who like soccer, hanging out.

( They just get together and play footie )

Source: BloombergBusinessWeek

Nick Clegg: Strip Russia of the World Cup

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Russia should be denied the right to host the World Cup following the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane that killed more than 200 people including 10 Britons, Nick Clegg said.

( he said... )

Source: Telegraph

What do you think? Do you hate Blatter? Do you want them to change the location of the next World Cup?
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So...Next Captain for England?

Jul. 21st, 2014 02:18 pm
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wazza is serving attentiveness and probably apologizing for a mistake england made

With Steven Gerrard announcing his international retirement with immediate effect on Monday afternoon, it leaves a big question for head coach Roy Hodgson: who should be the next England captain?
The Liverpool midfielder was named national team skipper in the lead up to the 2012 European Championships.
And now that he has hung up his boots for the Three Lions, after 114 caps, it leaves Hodgson with a big decision to make as he prepares for the next European Championships, in France in two years time.
The early favourites to take the captain's armband will be as follows, but who gets your vote?

Wayne Rooney
The Manchester United striker burst on to the international scene as a teenager, sparkling at Euro 2004. He scored four goals at that tournament and has been England's great hope for a decade. The Manchester United forward will be 29 in October, and has scored 40 goals in 95 internationals. However, he has never been named club captain at Old Trafford, though he has taken the armband on occasions. And in the recent World Cup many called for his exclusion from the side.

Joe Hart
Manchester City's goalkeeper has been a mainstay for England, since ousting the aging David James in Fabio Capello's reign. The 27-year-old now has 43 international caps, though few would name him one of the best stoppers in the world after a season in which he was dropped by his club side. Similarly to Rooney, he has not been his domestic side's captain, either.

Jack Wilshere
Following in the footsteps of Rooney, the Arsenal midfielder carried the hopes of the nation when he impressed in his first international outings as an 18-year-old. That was back in 2010, though, and he has only made 20 appearances in that time for England, thanks to injuries and loss of form. Now 22, Wilshere has been in the public eye recently, having been spotted smoking while on a post-World Cup hoilday in Las Vegas with Hart.

Gary Cahill
The Chelsea centre-back is commanded by former England captain John Terry at club level, though he was deputy skipper at Bolton Wanderers before a £7-million move in January 2012. The 28-year-old may only have 27 caps, but he is likely to be one of the first names on Hodgson's teamsheet in the next couple of years.

Jordan Henderson
The Liverpool defensive midfielder was one of England's few positives in the World Cup, despite the fact that the 24-year-old has only 13 caps for England. Last year he captained the England under-21 side at the 2013 Uefa European Under-21 Football Championship. He would be a bold choice, and as he showed with this squad for Brazil Hodgson is not frightened of making a tough call and backing youth to shine.

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please not Wazza, he already gets so much crap from the press to the fans, i don't want him shouldering anymore blame
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Russia 2018 promotional posters are released

Jul. 14th, 2014 04:41 pm
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After Sochi, Russia's Putin to Spend Billions on 2018 World Cup

Jul. 13th, 2014 02:04 pm
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As I shift into a fetal position thinking about my student loans, Russia is about to spend billions on hosting the next tournament - a $200-$800M for each stadium that economists predict will give Putin an economic headache and leave his country with numerous taxpayer-funded "white elephant"** stadiums.

Putin's plan will have stadiums built the land from the Ural Mts to the Baltic Sea (1,500 miles) and is expected to the be the 2nd most expensive after the $51B Winter Olympics.

Sochi is seen as an economic disaster for Russia and it seems to be the in the cards for World Cup 2018 since to comply with FIFA regulations, the city is increasing its 27,0000-capacity stadium to more than 43,000 seats. For fans who venture to the city - which lies as far east as Pakistan and as far north as Latvia - these facilities will no doubt be welcome for one month in 2018. But with an average attendance of 13,188 for local soccer team Ural Yekaterinburg last season, there might be more than a few empty seats at future games.

**White Elephant: : something that requires a lot of care and money and that gives little profit or enjoyment

b. a property requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit
c. an object no longer of value to its owner but of value to others

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i still want to go, i'm awful but WHY NOT AMERICA GOD WHY
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Lord Triesman lifts the lid on 2018 World Cup bid

May. 10th, 2011 12:03 pm
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Accuses Fifa executives of 'unethical behaviour'


Lord Triesman, the former Football Association and England 2018 chairman, has accused several Fifa executive committee members of "improper and unethical" behaviour.

He told the select committee looking into football that the Fifa vice-president Jack Warner asked for money – suggested to be £2.5m – to build an education centre in Trinidad with the cash to be channelled through him, and later £500,000 to buy Haiti's World Cup TV rights for the earthquake-hit nation, also to go through Warner.

Paraguay's Fifa member, Nicolás Leoz, asked for a knighthood, he alleged, while Brazil's Fifa member, Ricardo Teixeira, asked Triesman to "come and tell me what you have got for me", although Triesman said the comment could be open to interpretation.

Thailand's Fifa member, Worawi Makudi, wanted to be given the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team, said Triesman.

( moar drama )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/10/lord-triesman-fifa
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sepp to stepp down??

Mar. 22nd, 2011 10:11 am
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Sepp Blatter will make way for a successor as FIFA president in four years' time if he is re-elected in June, he has announced.

Blatter is seeking a fourth term as FIFA president and is being challenged by Asian confederation chief Mohamed Bin Hammam.

The 75-year-old told UEFA's Congress in Paris on Tuesday that if he wins he will definitely stand down in 2015, saying: "You know very well that I am a candidate for the next four years as FIFA president but these will be the last four years for which I stand as a candidate."
He added: "Together we have the task of bringing together the adventure we have started.
"We want to ensure a better future for our youth."

The new president will be elected at a Fifa Congress which starts on 31 May.

With Bin Hammam vowing to increase Fifa's decision-making power and spread its considerable wealth, Blatter is facing his first challenge since Issa Hayatou took him on - and lost - in 2002.

Bin Hammam is also currently attending the Congress for European football's governing body, Uefa, as they lobby federation presidents for their vote on 1 June in Zurich.
Uefa members make up more than one quarter of the maximum 208 Fifa voters that Blatter and Bin Hammam will attempt to woo.
The winner needs a two-thirds majority of valid votes cast in the first ballot, or a majority in the second.

Fifa has set an 1 April deadline for other candidates to be nominated by a single member federation.
"We are in extra time," said Blatter, referring to the time left before the election. "Let's wait and see what the outcome will be."


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i could have sworn there was a "blatter infection" tag, maybe i just made that up

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I tried to install FIFA on my computer, but the file was corrupt

Jan. 7th, 2011 03:51 pm
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Sepp Blatter expects January switch for 2022 World Cup



Fifa president Sepp Blatter expects the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be held in January because of the country's intensely hot summers.

( Oops, we should have thought of that before. )

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More on FIFA being corrupt and incompetent///The English reaction to the 2018 decision

Dec. 5th, 2010 04:41 pm
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The Guardian's Said & Done World Cup vote special: Sepp's best bits, the ExCo highlights, plus the Mail on why England really lost

How Sepp's big decision was made easier:
1) Leaked US cable describes Russia as "a rampantly corrupt, autocratic kleptocracy" run by a leader who has "amassed a massive secret fortune" by running a "mafia state" based on "personal enrichment, protection for gangsters, extortion and kickbacks, suitcases full of money, a parallel tax system and bribery estimated at $300bn a year".

2) Sepp: "Congratulations to Russia! Clearly, I am a satisfied man."

The highlights

Highlights from the last three months as Sepp set about shaping his legacy ("I'm working to make football a school of life, bringing hope, bringing emotions!"):

• Best individual performance: Executive Committee member Amos Adamu – caught in the bribery sting four months after telling colleagues facing separate fraud charges how they should behave. "The public sees every football administrator as corrupt, and I cannot explain why it is so. We must always be transparent to prove them wrong!"

• Runner-up: Former ExCo member Ismael Bhamjee – caught in the same sting, four years after his first one: exposed in 2006 for touting World Cup tickets at three times face value to supplement his £270 daily Fifa expenses. "I got myself in a mess," Bhamjee said at the time. "This was out of character."

• Best award: Former ExCo member Viacheslav Koloskov – travelling to Asunción in October to lobby current ExCo member Nicolás Léoz for Russia's bid. Léoz (accused by Panorama of taking £450k in bribes) honoured Koloskov (who received an unauthorised £65k payment from Sepp in 2002) with an award for "services to football and its principles".

• Best analysis: also from Koloskov – greeting the publication of the bids' expensive technical reports in November: "I know from my own experience that ExCo members work with little information. The inspection reports are enormous, so no one reads them."

• Best timing: October – Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko attacks the British press for "obsessive" analysis of Russia's racism record. Also that month: Russian football agent Vladimir Abramov gives an interview to Sport.ru about how Nigerians ruin Russian cities with "their drugs, and ultimately, their Aids". Abramov: "Teams shouldn't have more than one dark-skinned footballer. When there's more than one they are aggressive"; plus: "I am very respectful towards blacks, but Russia isn't ready for them." FIfa's view: "Racism will not be taken into account in the bidding process … It is not an operation matter".
( more more more PLUS Boris Johnson vs FIFA )
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Someone Needs to Go All Wikileaks On FIFA

Dec. 3rd, 2010 07:54 pm
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World Cup bid process flawed and in need of greater transparency

ZURICH -- The Baur au Lac hotel, a five-star palace on the banks of Lake Zurich, was the epicenter of The Game here this week: the final lobbying of the nine bids vying to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. As the official hotel of the FIFA Executive Committee, the 22 men who choose the World Cup hosts, the opulent Baur au Lac welcomed all manner of dignitaries this week, from former President Bill Clinton and David Beckham to Prince William and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

On Wednesday night, I shared a couch in the lobby bar with Mia Hamm and her husband, Nomar Garciaparra. And on Thursday night, after FIFA had chosen Russia '18 and Qatar '22 as the big winners, I came back to the Baur au Lac to try to make sense of how Qatar -- a nation the size of Connecticut, one that had been deemed a "high risk" by FIFA's own inspectors -- had swept aside the U.S. with ease to win one of the biggest prizes in sports.

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These articles are about FIFA and the bid process and it would be nice if we could keep the comments about that. So please refrain from making “wanky” comments about countries being “butthurt”. And obviously no racist crap. I will remove any comments I do not like and you will be banished (j/k).
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Ready to Inspire. Russia 2018

Dec. 3rd, 2010 06:01 pm
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I hope all noise and not adequate people calmed down a bit, so I could write this post.
Please be politically corrective.



“I want to tell you a little story about my hometown, Leningrad. The city was destroyed during World War II. There was no electricity, no heat and no food during winter, but there was football. Football helped the people to make it through this hard time. Football is especially popular in Russia. 2018 will be fantastic.”
Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister

"I always feel proud for our country. And today, after Mr. Blatter announced that Russia has won the right to host the 2018 World Cup, I felt a tremendous sense of happiness. Happiness for my homeland, my people. Russians deserve to host a football festival in our land. It's nice that it's a common joy. Immediately after this historic decision, I received a lot of congratulating sms, by the way, they were much more than that day when I scored 4 goals at Anfield:)
I have already said that in case of victory of our bid, we will hold this championship worthy, at the very highest level. We are entrusted the right to host World Cup 2018. We will not let you down. Holiday-to-be:)
Andrei Arshavin, the captain of national team

( if you know how much it means for you, then you know how much it means for us too )
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The votes are in and the host nations are...

Dec. 2nd, 2010 03:47 pm
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Fifa, world football's governing body, announced which bids have won the right to stage the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

England, Netherlands-Belgium, Russia and Spain-Portugal were vying for the 2018 tournament - Australia, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Qatar for 2022.

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