Another key soccer official has called on FIFA to switch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from summer to winter to avoid the heat and to allow neighboring Arab nations to host games. Prince Ali of Jordan is seen as an ally of Qatari Mohmmed Bin Hammam, the Asian Football Confederation president and a memberof […]
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Chuck Blazer on the U.S. loss
[WORLD CUP 2022] A week after the vote by the FIFA executive committee to give the 2022 World Cup to Qatar over the United States and three other bidders, Chuck Blazer, the lone American on the executive committee that selected the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, finds himself in the Gulf. Blazer […]
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Just how did the vote go?
[WORLD CUP 2022] Like a U.S. presidential race, the race for the 2022 World Cup was a fascinating exercise in predicting the outcome — without the polling.After Qatar’s 14-8 victory in the final round of voting, the 2022 race had the added intrigue of trying to figure out who voted for whom. Only a few […]
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Blatter says English are 'bad losers'
FIFA President Sepp Blatter hit out at criticism of the selection of Russia and Qatar as the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. “To behonest, I was surprised by all the English complaining after the defeat. England, of all people, the motherland of fairplay ideas,” Blatter told Swiss magazine Weltwoche. “Now some of […]
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Will the Big Nations Take the World Cup Away from FIFA?
By Paul Gardner The idea — somewhat strange at first, admittedly — of an air-conditioned World Cup held in a tiny little Middle East country which, you can be sureof this, most people would have difficulty locating with any certainty, begins to sink in. I mean … Qatar? Like it or not, that’s what the […]
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Barcelona's trio up for FIFA Ballon d'Or
[AWARDS] Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta were named as the three finalists for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d’Or award given to the world’s best player. The FIFA Ballon d’Or was created in 2010 following themerger of the major awards — the Ballon d’Or, created by France Football in 1956 and voted for by […]
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No clear favorites in final hours
[WORLD CUP 2018/22 BIDS] With Zurich’s Bauer Au Lac hotel on lockdown and crawling with Secret Service and other security officials, FIFA executive committeemembers bunkered down for the night before they hear presentations on the 2018 World Cup and select the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Bid committee members have been warned […]
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Fresh payoff charges rock FIFA
[ZURICH COUNTDOWN] The World Cup 2018/22 races were thrown into more confusion on Monday with various media sources linking three key FIFA executive committeemembers who will vote on Thursday to payoffs from ISL, the international sports agency, before its collapse in 2001. Ricardo Teixeira (former FIFApresident Joao Havelange‘s former son-in-law and the boss of Brazilian […]
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Morgan Freeman to present on behalf of USA
[WORLD CUP 2018/22 BIDS] Actor Morgan Freeman will join former President BillClinton, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati and U.S. national team midfielder Landon Donovan in making the USA’sfinal presentation on behalf of its bid to host the 2022 World Cup to the FIFA Executive Committee on Wednesday in Zurich. Freeman is the narrator of the […]
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SA POLL: Who will be awarded the 2022 World Cup?
On Thursday, the FIFA executive committee will meet in Zurich to award the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The USA is in a tight race against four bidders from the Asian confederation toearn the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Who do you think will win the 2022 race? pollby twiigs.com