| I’m disappointed with Fifa, says Beckenbauer – 14/12/2010 |
Fifa executive Franz Beckenbauer is ’disappointed’ with football’s ruling body for publishing the 2018 and 2022 World Cup election results. Beckenbauer said that he and the other voting executives were told the ballot results would be kept under wraps but they were then made public after all, exposing the losing bidders such as England (two votes for 2018) and Australia (one for 2022). ’I am disappointed with the way Fifa handled the election. Seven losing countries were exposed, especially England and Australia,’ said Beckenbauer.
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| SA scores huge Fifa bonus – 13/12/2010 |
South Africa was given a R685 million bonus by soccer’s world controlling body Fifa on Monday for hosting the 2010 World Cup, notes a report on the IoL site. South Africa was given a R685 million bonus by soccer’s world controlling body Fifa on Monday for hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup. ’We trusted South Africa and that trust was well-founded,’ Fifa president Sepp Blatter said in launching the 2010 Fifa Legacy Trust at Soccer City, in Johannesburg.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| Blatter says no gay sex in Qatar – 13/12/2010 |
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has raised eyebrows again by joking gay people should simply not have sex during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to avoid any possible punishment. Qatar will be the first Middle Eastern and first Arab country to host a World Cup, and also the smallest nation. Asked whether gays and lesbians should worry about attending the World Cup in Qatar because of its hostile attitude towards homosexuality, a smiling Blatter quipped: ’They should refrain from any sexual activities.’
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Full ABC Net report
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| Fifa consider later WC start – 10/12/2010 |
A later start to the next World Cup to allow top players to have a longer rest after sapping club seasons will be one of the key issues for a Fifa task force looking at improving future tournaments, notes a report on the IoL site. Starting the 2014 finals in Brazil in July rather than mid-June would allow players to be fresher for the tournament, a senior source at world soccer’s governing body said.
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Full report on the IoL site report
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| FA chief quits because FIFA can’t be trusted – 06/12/2010 |
Roger Burden, acting chairman of the Football Association, has withdrawn his application for the permanent position saying he can no longer trust FIFA members after the failure of England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. ’I recognise that an important part of the role is liaison with FIFA, our global governing body. I am not prepared to deal with people whom I cannot trust and I have withdrawn my candidacy,’ he said in a statement.
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Full report in The Times
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| Bribery saga continues – 01/12/2010 |
BBC’s Panorama programme accused four members of the FIFA’s 2018 World Cup voting committee of taking bribes and corruption, a decision which had a potentially destructive effect on England’s bid. As debate rages over whether the BBC were right to broadcast the expose, Alex Kay looks at which FIFA members were named and what they are supposed to have done wrong as the fall-out continues.
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Full Daily Mail report
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| FIFA should ’postpone’ vote – 30/11/2010 |
FIFA should postpone Thursday’s vote to choose the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts and allow an independent investigation into corruption allegations, watchdog body Transparency International (TI) said on Monday. ’FIFA’s integrity and credibility, already shaken in the past, have been badly tarnished and the reputational damage suffered by FIFA these last weeks is considerable,’ the anti-corruption organisation’s Swiss chapter said in a statement.
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Full Sport24 report
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| Fifa members face new allegations – 30/11/2010 |
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) accused three Fifa executives of taking bribes in a programme to be aired on Monday, three days before the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups are decided, notes a report on the IoL site. The BBC’s Panorama programme, which also accuses another Fifa executive of planning the corrupt sale of 2010 World Cup tickets, offered what it said was new evidence over the ruling body’s appointment of International Sports and Leisure (ISL) as its marketing arm.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| FIFA vice unhappy with bans – 22/11/2010 |
FIFA vice president Chung Mong-joon thinks the recent suspension of two executive committee members for alleged ethics violations is too harsh. ’I personally believe the disciplinary measures on the two executive committee members are excessive,’ said Chung. Sport24 reports that the ethics panel for football’s world governing body last week banned Nigeria’s Amos Adamu from all football activity for three years for allegedly agreeing to take bribes from undercover reporters from Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper who posed as lobbyists trying to buy votes.
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Full Sport24 report Sport24
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| Blatter - No bid damage – 21/11/2010 |
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has added his voice to those which do not believe England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup has been damaged. His comments come after Fifa executive committee members Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii were suspended on Thursday following allegations of corruption over World Cup votes that came out in a Sunday Times investigation. And, while Blatter told a news conference on Friday that he thought the ’entrapment’ was ’not fair’, he insisted that should not - as is feared by England 2018 - rebound on their bid, with the host nation set to be announced on 2nd December.
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Full Sky Sports report
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| Hearing into vote-selling allegations under way – 16/11/2010 |
FIFA has begun a three-day investigation into corruption allegations which have cast a shadow over the contest for the right to stage the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, notes a report in The Gazette. Two members of FIFA’s executive committee, Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Reynald Temarii of Tahiti, have been provisionally suspended pending the outcome of the hearing into newspaper allegations that they offered to sell their votes.
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Full report in The Gazette
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| Jordaan seeks top FIFA post – 05/11/2010 |
Danny Jordaan, the man responsible for organising the last Soccer World Cup, is now seeking to sit on the all-powerful FIFA committee that decides, among other things, where future World Cups will be played. Sports24 reports that the 59-year-old South African administrator, whose term as chief executive officer of the 2010 World Cup Organising Committee ends next month, has been nominated by his country for a post on the FIFA executive committee, the 24-man inner cabinet that runs the game and takes all its major decisions.
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Full Sports24 report
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| FIFA slams China for extra-time change – 05/11/2010 |
FIFA has joined Chinese players, coaches and fans in criticising a move by Chinese authorities to extend half-time in a bid to stamp out graft. In an effort to fight corruption, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced that during the final weeks of the Super League, half-time would be extended from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| Host pays up but FIFA takes profit – 04/11/2010 |
It all depends on which side of the fence you are sitting. South Africa was persuaded to spend more than R35 billion on infrastructure, while Fifa expects to earn something like R8 billion in net profit. The Sowetan reports that when Thierry Henry applied his personal version of ’the hand of God’ to secure the vital goal against Ireland that enabled France to qualify for this year’s World Cup finals he was vilified and proclaimed as devious, unscrupulous, unprincipled and lumped with almost any derogatory description that is yet to be invented.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Blatter wants to liven up WC – 31/10/2010 |
FIFA, disappointed at cagey tactics by teams in the first round of matches at the World Cup this year, is setting up a task force to look at ways of making the game more attractive. Sepp Blatter, president of soccer’s governing body, said the intention was to find solutions to be introduced in time for the next World Cup in Brazil in 2014, notes a report in the IoL site. Blatter said his task force would have representatives of the players, coaches, doctors and referees. He said he had made the proposal to the executive committee himself.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| Blatter opens meeting on scandal-hit WC – 29/10/2010 |
Fifa’s ruling executive committee started a two-day meeting this week which could alter the shape of the scandal-hit 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests, notes a Mail & Guardian report. The session was scheduled long ago for the executive to select a voting procedure it would use in a December 2 secret ballot to choose the two hosts, but it has been overtaken by events and began with two of the 24 members temporarily banished from Fifa headquarters.
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Full Mail & Guardian report
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| WC bidders work on despite probe – 27/10/2010 |
Three countries competing in the scandal-hit 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting contests tried to keep campaigning as usual on Tuesday, as Fifa president Sepp Blatter called for advice and tougher scrutiny to help deal with corruption, notes a BBC News report. ’Reports and Updates on the 2010 Fifa World Cup, 2014 Fifa World Cup, 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups, and the 2010 Fifa Women’s Under 20 and Under 17 World Cups.’ Bid leaders from Russia, Australia and Japan insisted that their work is not affected by reports of alleged bribery and collusion involving two Fifa voters and at least two bid rivals.
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| FIFA hammer looms over Nigeria again – 26/10/2010 |
A logjam at the Federal High Court Ikoyi, where the National Association of Nigerian Footballers (NANF) formally discontinued its case against the NFF has given rise to speculations that the country might be risking another FIFA ban. Whilst NANF’s case against the NFF was formally struck out by the presiding judge, Okon Abang, the court however failed to reinstate the Aminu Maigari-led board as expected by the defendants who argued that it was one of the conditions given by FIFA when it provisionally lifted the ban on October 8.
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Full 234 Next report
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| FIFA asks for more ’dirt’ – 26/10/2010 |
FIFA said on Monday that it had asked a British newspaper to provide more evidence for a probe into a Soccer World Cup scandal after it reported remarks by a former official about collusion between bidders. ’FIFA has immediately requested to receive all the documents and potential evidence that the newspaper has in relation to this matter, and will in any case analyse the material available,’" world football’s governing body said in a statement.
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Sport24 report
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| FIFA promises zero tolerance approach – 25/10/2010 |
FIFA has promised a zero tolerance approach to unethical behaviour in the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in response to comments made by the body’s former general secretary to undercover newspaper reporters. Sport24 reports that last week, two members of FIFA’s executive committee members were provisionally suspended on suspicion of selling their votes in the contest to host the two tournaments.
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| FIFA official pleads innocence – 25/10/2010 |
FIFA executive committee member Amos Adamu, suspended on suspicion of selling his vote in the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, has denied wrongdoing and said investigations would show him to be a credible person. Sport24 reports that Nigerian Adamu has been provisionally suspended while FIFA’s ethics committee probes allegations that he and Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) president Reynald Temarii offered to sell their votes when approached by Sunday Times journalists posing as lobbyists for an American consortium.
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Full Sport24 report
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| FIFA official maintains innocence |
A Fifa official from Oceania who is accused of offering to sell his vote in the 2018 World Cup bidding insists he is innocent and is vowing to clear his name. Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) president Reynald Temarii said he was quoted out of context in a British newspaper expose which alleged he solicited money in return for his vote, the website insideworldfootball.biz reported. ’I am 100 percent convinced of my integrity ... I will prove I am an honest man,’ he told the British-based website.
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Full report in The Star
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| FIFA faces string of SA lawsuits - 18/10/2010 |
FIFA is facing a string of lawsuits in SA for nearly R1bn in unpaid debts for services provided before and during the World Cup, says a report on the Fin24.com site. The world soccer governing body has not paid about R240m for the buses that transported spectators and the security supplied by police after private security firms pulled out of the games over pay demands. Host cities are also threatening to sue for unpaid bills amounting to more than R500m for work Fifa allegedly demanded be done around stadiums.
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Full report on the Fin24.com sitereport
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| Accused to co-operate with probe – 18/10/2010 |
The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has pledged to fully cooperate with a FIFA probe into allegations its president offered to sell his vote in the bidding race for the 2018 World Cup. According to a Mail & Guardian report, world football’s governing body launched the investigation after a British newspaper alleged it covertly filmed OFC president Reynald Temarii and Nigerian FIFA official Amos Adamu soliciting money in return for their votes.
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Full Mail & Guardian report Guardian
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| Blatter doing damage control – 18/10/2010 |
FIFA president Sepp Blatter described a British newspaper story alleging two FIFA executive committee members offered to sell their votes in World Cup bidding as ’very negative’ for the governing body, notes a Sport24 report. Blatter wrote in an open letter to his colleagues on FIFA’s executive committee that the Sunday Times’ allegation is a ’very unpleasant situation’ for football’s governing body.
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Full Sport24 report
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| Fifa’s World Cup debt trail – 18/10/2010 |
FIFA is facing a string of legal suits in South Africa for nearly R1bn in unpaid debts for services provided before and during the World Cup. The world soccer governing body has not paid about R240m for the buses that transported spectators and the security supplied by police after private security firms pulled out of the games over pay demands. Host cities are also threatening to sue for unpaid bills amounting to more than R500m for work Fifa allegedly demanded be done around stadiums. And last week, top executives from the SA Football Association (Safa) went cap in hand to FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, asking for about R60m used to buy hospitality packages.
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Full FIN24 reportFull
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| Boost for England’s 2018 bid – 14/10/2010 |
FIFA president Sepp Blatter offered fresh hope to England’s World Cup bid, saying the ugly riots in the Italy v Serbia match would not have happened if other countries followed England’s lead in dealing with hooliganism. The Daily Mail notes that Scottish referee Craig Thomson abandoned the Euro 2012 qualifier in Genoa after only seven minutes on Tuesday when Serbia fans threw flares onto the pitch.
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| Togo threatened with suspension – 12/10/2010 |
Togo were threatened with an international ban unless their soccer federation holds elections by early next month. The Times report that the announcement by soccer’s governing body FIFA came less than a month after it was discovered that a ’fake’ Togo side took part in an international friendly against Bahrain. FIFA said that it had accepted a request from the Togolese federation (FTF) to extend the deadline for elections until Nov. 6, but said no further extensions would be granted.
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Full report in The Times
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| FIFA evaluating goalline technology – 12/10/2010 |
FIFA say 13 different goalline technology systems are being considered to help match officials make more accurate decisions. FIFA say all the project proposals were presented last week, and will be further discussed at an October 20 meeting of their rule-making panel, known as Ifab. The panel is gathering in Newport, Wales, to help set the agenda for their annual meeting next March when the laws of football can be changed, notes a report on the IoL site. FIFA president Sepp Blatter reopened the debate on using technology to help match officials after a series of mistakes affected the World Cup in South Africa, and helped eliminate England and Mexico.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| SA cities still waiting for FIFA payments - 08/10/2010 |
Nine Fifa World Cup host cities are demanding an estimated R500m that they claim Fifa owes them, according to a report in The Times. Durban City Manager Michael Sutcliffe told the paper yesterday that the host cities had been ’engaging’ with Fifa for at least three years but were still waiting to be paid for work done in the run-up to the tournament. Host city contracts with the world soccer body state that the cities are entitled to 10% of World Cup ticket sale.
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