Sepp Blatter
FIFA President Joseph Blatter gestures as he answers a journalist's question at the Hungexpo of Budapest on May 25, 2012 during the closing press conference of the 62nd FIFA Congress meeting. South Sudan on Friday became the 209th member of FIFA, just under a year after it declared independence and joined the United Nations.
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Perhaps Franz Beckenbauer with his Football 2014 group can present us with a solution, if not today then tomorrow
can be a drama, even a tragedy, when we go to penalty kicks. Football should not go to one to one, because when football goes to penalty kicks, it loses its essence as a team sport. Perhaps Franz Beckenbauer with his Football 2014 group can present us with a solution, if not today then tomorrow.
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Brazil, FIFA presidents meet to ease tensions
-- FIFA head Sepp Blatter and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff are meeting in Brazil to discuss preparations for the 2014 World Cup.The meeting Friday comes two weeks after FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke made harsh remarks over Brazil's slow preparations, Read more »
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Council of Europe calls for FIFA corruption probes
-- FIFA should investigate Sepp Blatter 's re-election as president and should publish documents relating to a kickbacks scandal, a group that advises European lawmakers said Wednesday in a new report on sports.A panel for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Read more »
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Brazil says Blatter apologizes over Valcke remarks
-- FIFA President Sepp Blatter apologized for remarks by one of his top executives about Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup.Blatter's comments came in a letter to the government Monday, a day after FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke sent his own Read more »
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Qatar World Cup Hosting Victory Still Faces Serious Challenges – Analysis
and a member of a 13-person panel assembled and headed by Swiss law professor Mark Pieth at the request of FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the Qatari bid for 2022 would be investigated as would the awarding of the Russia 2018 World Cup as part of wider inquiry from Eurasia Review Read more »
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Soccer report: Blatter creates stir again
Sepp Blatter serious when he says he wants to do away with the penalty kick shootout?Perhaps not. The FIFA president has a penchant for speaking his mind before his mind is ready to speak. Indeed, soon after declaring that soccer “loses its essence as a team from Dallas Morning News Read more »
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Why we should keep penalty dramas and get rid of Blatter
Blatter has admitted that tired players taking penalties is not an ideal way to settle drawn matches. Instead he wants women in tight shorts to take them. Blatter wants football to say goodbye to the penalty shoot-out and football wants to say goodbye to Blatter, from Mirror.co.uk Read more »
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RUFC - Are Penalty Shoot-Outs Fair
see that FIFA President, Sepp Blatter wants an alternative to a penalty shoot-out to decide a game. Seemingly not being able to come up with something else himself, he's asked Franz Beckenbauer, head of the Football Task Force 2014, to find with something from Vital Football Read more »
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FIFA Congress fully backs reform process, appoints first woman to Executive
Congress. Thus, the road map will be respected. FIFA, and me personally, are firmly committed to this process,” stated Joseph S. Blatter. The chairman of the Independent Governance Committee (IGC), international expert Prof. Mark Pieth, and the chairmen of from Football Media Read more »
