FIFA president Sepp Blatter kicked off an executive committee meeting on Friday in a bid to turn the page on a damaging World Cup bidding scandal that prompted a ban on two of its members.
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London must honour its promise to maintain an athletics track at the 2012 Olympic Stadium, senior vice president of the IAAF and IOC member Sergei Bubka said on Saturday.
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Chris Canetti, who was promoted from chief operating officer to president of the Dynamo this week, took time out for a question-and-answer session with the Chronicle.
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Great hope of Australia’s World Cup bid team fanned by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, but back at home, the AFL and NRL remain familiar irritants.
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David Cameron will today welcome Fifa president Sepp Blatter to Downing Street as England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup reaches its final phase.
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FIFA president boosts 2018 World Cup bid team by saluting nation’s struggle against crowd violence.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has today praised the way in which England has removed the threat of hooliganism and racism from the national game since the 1980′s.
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Italian Football Federation (Figc) president Giancarlo Abete claimed on Monday that an agreement to avoid a proposed players’ strike is close to being found.
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Diego Maradona on Wednesday accused Argentina Football Association (AFA) president Julio Grondona of “lying” and team manager Carlos Bilardo of “treason”.
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Australia’s World Cup bid has suffered an untimely setback with the president of the Asian Football Confederation, Mohammed Bin Hammam, effectively promising his vote to Qatar to host the 2022 tournament.
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SYDNEY: A six-man delegation of Fifa inspectors arrived here today to examine the credentials of Australias bid to host the 2022 World Cup. The team, led by Chilean Football Federation president Harold Mayne-Nicholls, was treated to a traditional Aboriginal smoking ceremony welcome on the Sydney Opera House forecourt on the opening day of their three-day visit, Football Federation Australia …
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A FIFA delegation arrived in South Korea on Thursday, the second leg of its tour to inspect bidders to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The five-member team, led by Chilean football federation president Harold Mayne-Nicholls, landed at Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport on Thursday to start a four-day trip.
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A FIFA delegation praised Japan’s planning and advanced infrastructure after completing an inspection of the country’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup. The FIFA inspection team, headed by Chile Football Federation president Harold Mayne-Nicholls, toured stadium and broadcasting facilities in Osaka and Tokyo from Tuesday to Thursday.
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According to ifeng.com, the opening match of “Special Olympics Unity Cup 2010″ raised its curtain at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town of South Africa on local time of July 3. Sixteen Special Olympics athletes from all over the world and some other celebrities such as Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, Zhang Ziyi, China’s famous actress, and so on attended the friendly match on the day.
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CAPE TOWN – AMONG the tourist attractions in South Africa on World Cup football fans ‘must-do’ lists, one of the most notorious penal colonies of the last century is right up there. Robben Island, a barren outcrop off the Cape Town coast, is best known for being home to political prisoners jailed by the old apartheid government, most famously former leader Nelson Mandela and current president …
United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati will meet with coach Bob Bradley to discuss his future with the national team following their second round exit but all the signs point to a likely parting of the ways.
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SANDAKAN — Football betting should be legalised because it can help minimise illegal gambling, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president Datuk Liew Vui Keong said.
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A unique football created in Butte will make its national debut on home shopping network QVC this week. Passback Football is designed so it can be thrown and caught by the same individual. The football comes from First Base Sports Group LLC run by company president Mark Shutey of Butte.
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