FIFA/UEFA/CONMEBOL/CAF/CONCACAF/AFC news thread

[ParkedTheBus]

Just read about Jerome Champagne on a football app , the guy sounds like the real deal. I am really sick of Blatter and Platini , they have been just downright bad.

 

[War]

Sepp Blatter to stand for re-election as FIFA president - ESPN FC

 

[ParkedTheBus]

Sepp Blatter to stand for re-election as FIFA president - ESPN FC

I just wish he kept his word. He promised that this will be his last term , now standing again.. Smh.

 

[War]

Michel Platini says more video technology would kill football - ESPN FC

 

[thedon5]

Michel Platini says more video technology would kill football - ESPN FC

In other news, video technology says more Michel Platini would kill football.

 

[War]

FIFA president Sepp Blatter admits Qatar mistake over 2022 World Cup - ESPN FC

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

can't possibly go ahead now, this has been a farce.

 

[ParkedTheBus]

Yeah , but is it possible to change the location ? I mean , the construction of Lusail and it's stadium should be fairly complete , so if you change the location right now what will they do with the stadium?

 

[Epic]

Nine clubs sign settlement agreements - UEFA.org

Settlement agreements for each of the nine clubs in full detail ? UEFA.org

 

[War]

What UEFA's Financial Fair Play ruling means by Gabriele Marcotti - ESPN FC

 

[ParkedTheBus]

Anzhi , one of the clubs who were caught , were relegated to the russian second division last week. They had the money and potential to have become a real force , but they squandered their money.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

Yeah , but is it possible to change the location ? I mean , the construction of Lusail and it's stadium should be fairly complete , so if you change the location right now what will they do with the stadium?

use it as a mass grave for all the foreign workers that have died during it's construction?

the heat is just one aspect of why if shouldn't be in Qatar. if there are significant challenges moving it to another location (they have plenty of time as under the old system the 2022 world cup hosts would be chosen in 2016, not 10 years ahead) then I don't see how blatter can keep his job.

 

[thedon5]

Anzhi , one of the clubs who were caught , were relegated to the russian second division last week. They had the money and potential to have become a real force , but they squandered their money.

No. Very few players wanted to play for a team in a war-torn Dagestan. That was their problem initially when the money first came in from Suleyman Kerimov, they weren't able to get much more than Samuel Eto'o and Roberto Carlos. That was what meant that they would never become a big force in Russian football let alone European football. Seeing this, Suleyman Kerimov pulled all his money and left the club marooned in a terrible financial state. They had to sell all their players earning anything resembling decent wages. Hence the relegation and the penalty.

 

[War]

BBC Sport - Qatar World Cup 2022: Fifa vice-president 'would support' re-vote

BBC Sport - Qatar World Cup: '?3m payments to officials' corruption claim

Whenever they come to the inevitable conclusion and move the cup from Qatar, Australia should get it based on the candidates that voted & because that part of the world has yet to host a cup.

 

[thedon5]

Any chance it would be Australia and New Zealand, you think?