... to link geopolitical issues with football and disrupt FIFA's business model, which they claim remains a cesspool of corruption and bribery.
Petro Poroshenko, the pro-Washington president of Ukraine, is calling for a boycott of the FIFA 2018 Russia World Cup. The move is reminiscent of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in which he also used food as a political weapon.
FIFA claims it earned an overall gross profit of $2.6 billion on the ...
An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia.
Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the ...
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 and prosecutor who was involved in the Victor Bout affair, FIFA’s internal ethics “chamber” is finalizing its investigation ...
