Articles tagged with "fifa"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 18th, 2007
The Seppster once again emerged from his dark, undisclosed cave today to spread joy and happiness to football fans everywhere. FIFA Czar-for-Life Sepp Blatter ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 15th, 2007
Normally when you read about FIFA intervening in club versus country controversies they are defending the various football associations around the world for plucking players ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Jun 9th, 2007
Thanks to reader El Simon, you can follow this link to an online petition to protest FIFA's latest gift to Brazil and Argentina at the ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Jun 6th, 2007
I know this is going to come as a shock to the FIFA people in Switzerland, but there are in fact 10 countries in CONMEBOL, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 2nd, 2007
It is a democracy that even the most authoritarian of leaders would support. FIFA announced today that head honcho Sepp Blatter is running unopposed ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 23rd, 2007
On a day when FIFA czar-for-life Sepp Blatter blasted money as being the cause of football's ills and paradoxically FIFA announced that it made a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 14th, 2007
When you read the praise being heaped on Jack Warner after he was elected to a fifth term as CONCACAF president today, you would almost ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Mar 2nd, 2007
I'll admit that Ivan Kaviedes may have taken some actions that have tarnished the game of football (whatever that means). But surely honoring Otilino ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 28th, 2007
Every couple of weeks FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter crawls out of his undisclosed cave to give his thoughts on the world's game. Today ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Connor Fabiano | Feb 20th, 2007
The Washington Post is reporting that the US Soccer Federation (USSF) is "formulating a bid to host the 2018 World Cup." According to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 17th, 2007
Like clockwork, FIFA releases its rankings of the world's teams each month and like a Clockwork Orange they are best viewed with a heavy dose ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 15th, 2007
Like many football fans around the world, FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter was left with a bit of an unpleasant taste in his mouth after ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 8th, 2007
The final FIFA report on the 2006 World Cup is out and the world's football organizing body expresses its displeasure with some of the theatrics ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 6th, 2006
The world's football governing body showed again today that it plays by an entirely different set of rules than anyone else in this world. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Nov 14th, 2006
FIFA czar-for-life Sepp Blatter seems to have an on again, off again relationship with South Africa. After heading there a few weeks back to ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Oct 30th, 2006
Brazil has been playing most of its friendlies in Europe lately, and the CBF says don't look for that to change in the near future. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 24th, 2006
If it seemed to you like a lot of players were faking injuries at the 2006 World Cup your intuition was correct. FIFA's chief ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 23rd, 2006
The FIFA ethics committee met for the first time Monday and pledged to address corruption, doping, racism and match fixing in football.
After that they will ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 16th, 2006
A leading football administrator says that the six confederations are set to restructure the way FIFA is run so that the confederations have more power ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 27th, 2006
FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter has come out today with public statements in favor of getting rid of penalty shootouts in the World Cup final. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 26th, 2006
The Guardian today details allegations that Nicolás Leoz, a Fifa executive committee member and long-serving president of Conmebol, the South American football confederation, took bribes ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 22nd, 2006
In a bit of a surprise move, FIFA is working on a plan that would compensate football clubs for injuries that occur to their players ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 15th, 2006
If you are worried about the slow pace of stadium construction in South Africa and are concerned the country might not be ready to host ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Aug 25th, 2006
The world's football governing body has finally gotten around to taking action against Togo, handing out a 100,000 Swiss Franc fine to the Togolese Football ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Aug 17th, 2006
Well, that's one place higher than the last FIFA rankings, anyway. Full rankings here.
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Aug 2nd, 2006
Now that the dust has settled and FIFA honcho Sepp Blatter is back home in Switzerland counting the gazillion dollars he made through World Cup ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Jul 14th, 2006
Ecuador striker Felix Borja and his new club Greek champions Olympiakos, will take part in the 2006-07 Champions League. As expected, the Greek FA ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 12th, 2006
Like that grumpy neighbour you had growing up, Sepp Blatter is threatening to take away Zidane's Golden Ball.
Zidane may feel he won the award ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jul 12th, 2006
One of the many people who appreciated my unbiased perspective on this year's World Cup matches recently emailed me to ask if I thought that ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Jul 12th, 2006
Ecuador are now ranked 28th in the world by FIFA. That's closer to reality than the 39th ranking, but is Guinea really that much ...
