... been an unprecedented event. And nobody would have been able to predict the consequences. Considering the number of actors involved, including in purely economic terms, it would have been met with enormous opposition. This is why a “shake-up” of FIFA and a turnaround with regard to the decision to host the 2018 World Cup in Russia are far more likely.
Partners on the Wings
Russia Beyond the Headlines
The battle is not over, however. In the current situation, Russia is interested in maintaining the status quo and, as a result, has found a number of unexpected allies. And ...
... Michel Platini, the European Football Union (UEFA), which operates under FIFA's aegis, is expected to earn $2.4 billion annually in 2015 and 2016 on its Champions League alone, sports magazines and websites say. Russia, which hosts the 2018 FIFA Russia World Cup, is also a member of UEFA.
Although UEFA is headquartered in Switzerland like FIFA, the federal senator who authored the FIFA anti-corruption legislation says a separate piece of legislation will be required to regulate UEFA, which ...
... situation with the big winner being the defense industries of both nuclear superpowers. Neither hockey or sports diplomacy friendly FIFA football (soccer)or even soft power has changed that. Credit: www.ironpigs.com The Soviet Union walked away from the 1960 ... ... exponentially. In 1989 CBS paid $300 million to acquire the rights to televise the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Today, Russians, Czechs and Finns are stars in the National Hockey League (NHL). Vladislav Tretyak, one of the most admired hockey players ...
... precipitate individuals choosing to resign their FIFA connected activities. No matter how much you steal or bribe or fix games when you are in the FIFA club, once you resign, FIFA holds you harmless. That’s how the system works. Bout affair bars FIFA sleuth from Russia Michael Garcia, the American lawyer who also serves currently as FIFA’s “in house” ethics investigator has been on a world tour in an effort to gather information for his highly publicized inquiry. But one place he hasn’t ...
