... find even the most famous clubs tightening their belts.
Players are griping because teams delay paychecks. Managers balk at signing for less money. Third party syndicates continue to own shares of players like slices of churrasco, dribbling around FIFA rules.
Government subsidized football hasn't improved quality
Brazil's version of big government has traditionally played Santa for the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the FIFA entity at the top of the nation's futebol ...
Before the FIFA World Cup was given “sports diplomacy” status by pundits, academics and some among its own leadership, the ice hockey rivalry between the Soviet Union, the United States and Canada that developed during the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at ...
... along Brasilia’s divided highway of government were gone for the weekend.
After former president Jose Inacio Lula da Silva (known as “Lula”) made headlines by saying that anybody who uses the Metro (in Rio and Sao Paulo) to travel to FIFA World Cup games is an “idiot” (babaça) it was the perfect time for president Dilma Rousseff’s media team to call a press conference about World Cup security.
The setting for around 70 journalists and government media advisers ...
As the Godfather of association football, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been implicated in major corruption scandals in the past. But this time with the investigation of Qatar and Russia the prize in this high stakes game could be his job. Led by Michael Garcia, the former U.S. attorney general ...
