Michel Platini on his former No. 2, FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
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MLS Cup 2017 Player Ratings
TORONTO FC-SEATTLE EXPRESS: Dec. 9 in Toronto Toronto FC 2 Seattle 0. Goals: Altidore (Giovinco) 67, Vazquez90+4. Att.: 30,584. After more than a nervy hour of controlling the action without getting a goal, Toronto FC punched through with a Jozy Altidore strike to propel itpast Seattle, 2-0, in the 2017 MLS Cup Final Saturday at […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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FIFA kingpin quits in fallout from latest federal plea
Many soccer fans of a certain age will have remembered Sheikh Ahmad‘s father. Only those who have followed soccer politics in recent years will know Sheikh Ahmad himself. SheikhFahad was president of the Kuwaiti Football Association in 1982 when he was at the center of one of the most bizarre scenes in the history of […]
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They're back! FIFA scandals enter new territory
It seemed like eons ago that Swiss police showed up (the first time) at 6 a.m. at the five-star Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, asked for the room registry and began knocking on doors and hauling awayFIFA officials only protected from public view by bed sheets held up by hotel employees suit coats with […]
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MLS Weekend: Three Games to Watch
The sharp reversal of 2015 MLS Cup finalists Columbus and Portland is one of the intriguing early developments of the 2017 season. Both fell short of the playoffs last year, the firstsuch occurrence in league history. And both are leading their respective conferences, with the Timbers also atop the overall standings at 4-1-1 (13 points). […]
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Platini: Blatter wanted to make me to be 'his last scalp'
Former UEFA president Michel Platini accused former FIFA president Sepp Blatter of getting him banned from soccer in a bid to save his own job. Both men were banned from soccer for eightyears — reduced to six years on appeal — after Blatter authorized a payment of $2 million to Platini was for old debt […]
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Video replay in soccer: suggestions for its better implementation
With the industrialization of soccer, the Laws of the Game (LOTG) started to change to answer the demands of industrialized soccer. The first major change came with “the specializedlinesman” in the early 1990s. Until then, there was no distinction between the referee and the linesman. It was thought that one could do both functions equally […]
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More officials do not necessarily mean less mistakes by officials
By Ahmet Guvener It is a well acknowledged fact that soccer has the fewest number of officials per square feet in any team sport may be with the exception of rugby. If one followsthe history of Laws of the Game one can clearly see the transition from the linesman — whose sole duty was to […]
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Three candidates running to replace Platini as UEFA president
Dutch soccer boss Michael van Praag, Spaniard Angel Maria Villar, the acting UEFA president and Slovenian federation boss Aleksander Ceferin are the three candidates to replaceMichel Platini as UEFA president. The election will be held on Sept. 14.