“Things are going so well she said she doesn’t need to speak. There’s no point repeating the same things as everyone else.” — Bangladesh soccer president KaziSalahuddin on why countrywoman Mahfuza Akhter Kiron, who was re-elected to the 37-person FIFA Council as the Asian Football Confederation’s women’s representative on the slate backed byKuwait’s Sheikh Ahmad […]
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Fantastic FIFA and its Win-Win President
After decades of negative media coverage about FIFA’s corruption, nepotism and secrecy, its President Gianni Infantinohas hit upon a novel way of looking at the governing body’slatest money-driven schemes. Everything’s good! Reacting to his own sparrow-brained proposal to expand the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to 48 teams, he gushed last week, “If it happens […]
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Report: Will Ferrell will play Chuck Blazer in HBO film about FIFA scandal
Will Ferrell will play the late Chuck Blazer inthe film about the 2015 FIFA scandal based on the book American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich from-and Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports, reported Deadline.
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Infantino's scurrilous plan to sell FIFA down the river
First of all, I’d like to apologize for my column three weeks ago taking FIFA President Gianni Infantino to task for harboring a surfeit of bad ideas. It turns out that mycriticism was far too mild. According to German media reports this past weekend, Infantino’s bad ideas were not just bad ideas, but nothing less […]
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What They're Saying: Pamela Chen
“These crimes were not because of need, but because of greed. There is really no explanation.” — U.S. district court judge Pamela Chen, unswayed at sentencing by thearguments of Silvia Pinera-Vasquez, Juan Angel Napout‘s defense attorney, comparing her client, the former Conmebol president, to the late U.S. Senator John McCain andnoting how he had been […]
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What They'e Saying: Pamela K. Chen
“Mr. Marin says he loves the sport, yet he and his co-conspirators were the very cancer on the sport he claims to love. His crime was one of pure and unmitigated and unchecked greed.” –U.S. District Court Judge Pamela K. Chen, saying she wanted to “send a message of deterrence” with her sentence of four […]
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Ken Bensinger on the secret informants who made the USA's case in soccer's biggest scandal, the soccer guys who worked it, and the Christopher Steele twist
It’s hard to imagine how someone who was not a soccer fan could have written the story of how the FBI and IRS busted the biggest criminal enterprise in the history of international sports. Nor is it easy to see how the case could have been broken if an agent had not followed the sport […]
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How United 2026 won — five reasons why World Cup is headed to North America
The USA, Canada and Mexico were awarded the hosting rights to the 2026 World Cup. While the outcome was for a while in doubt, United 2026 won in a rout by a vote of 134-65 over Morocco. Here are five reasons why United 2026 won — and won going away … 1. What FIFA wants, […]
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World Cup 2026 race: The six men of influence
On Wednesday, FIFA’s 207 members should decide who will host the 2026 World Cup. United 2026 — the USA, Canada and Mexico — has been locked in a tight race with Morocco, which hopes to garner thehosting rights on its fifth try. The 2026 contest marks the first time FIFA members themselves will decide the […]
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Jose Hawilla, Traffic founder and FIFAGate corruption witness, dies in Brazil
The one of the major breaks Federal authorities got in their case against soccer executives from across Concacaf and Conmebol came when Brazilian Jose Hawilla, the Traffic founder, became acooporating witness. Hawilla, who suffered from respiratory problems, died on Friday at the age of 74 in Sao Paulo. JoseHawila: Indictment Hawilla, who began his career […]