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Beckenbauer Against Scrapping Penalty Shootouts
former Bayern captain and the head of FIFA Task Force to improve football for the newspaper Bild on Saturday, a day after FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Beckenbauer alternative to shootouts. Blatter told the FIFA Congress on Friday that soccer "loses its essence" when matches are
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FIFA to Test Goal-Line Technology at Wembley
FIFA says the Hawk-Eye goal line technology system of Hawk-Eye in a recognized match before FIFA 's rules-making panel meets July 2 in Kiev is being tested in Danish league matches. FIFA says test results are not available to match
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FIFA Doctors Want Safer Headscarf Designs
FIFA 's medical advisers say new designs are injuries. Michel D'Hooghe, chairman of FIFA 's medical committee, says samples received represented a danger" to players' health. Soccer 's rules-making panel has said it intends approve headscarves following a campaign by FIFA executive committee member Prince Ali
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CONCACAF Tries to Oust Blazer of US From FIFA
most senior American official in world soccer , and voted to seek his removal from FIFA 's executive committee after 16 years represented by a thief with a white collar in FIFA ," Cuba soccer president Luis Hernandez told Webb during Warner ruled CONCACAF and Caribbean soccer for almost three decades before he resigned June under pressure from the subsequent FIFA probe. Blazer was a longtime ally of
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CONCACAF Tries to Oust Chuck Blazer From FIFAmost senior American official in world soccer , and voted to seek his removal from FIFA 's executive committee. FIFA must represented by a thief with a white collar in FIFA ," Cuba soccer president Luis Hernandez told Webb during focus from "politics and economics" to soccer . Most members applauded the suggestion that Blazer be investigated by a FIFA ethics panel. They hailed the new president
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CONCACAF Tries to Oust Blazer of US From FIFA
CONCACAF nations have asked FIFA to remove American official Chuck Blazer from its executive committee Luis Hernandez describing Blazer as a "thief with a white collar." FIFA must consider how to deal with the issue at its full Congress of 208
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CONCACAF Nations Lash out at Disgraced Ex-Leaders
Warner and Chuck Blazer was outlined to 40 soccer nations Wednesday, just minutes after candidate to succeed disgraced former FIFA vice president Warner. He resigned last Warner ruled CONCACAF and Caribbean soccer for almost three decades before he resigned last year under pressure from FIFA . Soccer leaders from across central America and
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FIFA Delays Appointing Anti-Corruption Officials
Sepp Blatter said Tuesday he expects the FIFA Congress of world soccer nations to be a lot calmer than the last it is a very positive Congress," the FIFA president told The Associated Press in the candidates. He was happier with FIFA 's selection of Lydia Nsekera as the of Nsekera, who has led Burundi's soccer body since 2004. "She's a princess
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FIFA Delays Appointing Anti-Corruption Officials
FIFA President Sepp Blatter's anti-corruption hit another delay on Tuesday, even as soccer 's world governing body appointed the first woman to its inner circle. FIFA pushed back plans until July to select figures from politics and civil society. FIFA said the approved candidates and an updated the only female president of a national soccer federation, and a member of the International
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Organizers: Don't Mess With the Olympic Brand
so infrequently — once every four years — and the competition includes virtually every country on the planet. Although soccer 's World Cup is similar in terms of national fervor, it goes on for longer, diluting its appeal, and it is less popular
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FIFA Prepares to Pick Anti-Corruption Officials
Tackling corruption in football will again top FIFA 's agenda when the 208 member nations body's executive committee. Continuing FIFA 's efforts to restore its battered image after a series of corruption scandals, FIFA will announce Tuesday which independent
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S.Africa's Most Famous Township Gets New Theater
New playhouse in Soweto, South Africa's most famous township, could spark theater revival
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Marcelo Lippi Joins Guangzhou Evergrande as Coach
passionate and confident about it," Lippi said. "I promise to work with my utmost passion and professional knowledge." Chinese soccer has long been mired in corruption and underachievement. Lippi's arrival is further evidence, however, of the drive to use
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