.... But the former french national team star says he is satisfied being president of UEFA and that he has no plans to challenge Blatter's leadership at this time.
Seemingly immune from the media campaign conducted by ethics assets, including FIFA officials in the United States and Britain, Platini has artfully dodged accusations that he supported Qatar's bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, based on the suggestion of former french president Nicholas Sarkozy.
Will ethics advocates steal Blatter's ...
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 Squaw Valley, California proved that competitive athletics could capture the hearts and minds of adversaries who were threatening each other with nuclear war. Thanks to hockey,...
... muscle to the mix.
International influence was evident. The organizers of the demonstrations cleverly cloned tactics from abroad, mimicking the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. They focused on Brazil’s freely elected government and FIFA much as global capitalism was attacked in the United States as an exercise of America’s constitutionally protected right to free speech in the context of “digital democracy.”
In spite of the popular social inclusion programs operated by her Workers Party government, which critics ...
... to get himself elected as president of FIFA. He was banned for life from FIFA football. Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago had been a vice president and a member of the FIFA Executive Committee since 1983. He also served as president of CONACAAF, the FIFA region that represents the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America, since 1990. After being re-elected for a new term as head of FIFA’s CONACAAF division in the spring of 2011 he resigned. Media reports had been buzzing up a long string of activities ...
