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U.S. Women Defeat Japan to Win World Cup
Carli Lloyd's two goals in first five minutes set the tone.
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Ben Affleck to Produce FIFA Scandal Film for Warner Bros.
'Warrior' helmer Gavin O'Connor attached to direct story of Chuck Blazer, the American soccer exec at the center of world's biggest sports corruption scandal, while Entertainment 360's Guymon Casady and Darin Friedman are also producing.
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Fifa's United Passions confirmed as lowest-grossing film in US history
Fifa wanted to call it Men of Legend or The Dream Makers. But even a somewhat more toned down title has not been enough to stop United Passions being named as the lowest-grossing film in US box office history. The Hollywood Reporter has now confirmed the self-congratulatory project, starring Tim Roth as controversial outgoing president Sepp Blatter, scored the puniest total of all time in North America.
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Qatar to be stripped of 2022 World Cup, says country's whistleblower
Qatar are likely be stripped of the 2022 World Cup, according to a former senior figure in their bid team, who turned whistleblower to expose corruption. Phaedra Almajid says the weight of evidence of wrongdoing from her and others will be so overwhelming that FIFA will be left with no option but to find another host.
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Why African Soccer Officials See FIFA Probe As 'Imperialist'
The corruption scandal has struck a nerve among African officials wary of Western dominance in sport and politics. FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves after a press conference at the headquarters of the world's football governing body in Zurich on June 2, 2015. The news of Sepp Blatter’s resignation on Tuesday drew outrage from the leading officials in African soccer.
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At Headbutt Moment for Russia, Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov Show Their Stuff — What Stuff?
Russia survived the threat of a homosexual boycott of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, handily. But can it survive the threatened boycott of the 2018 World Cup from a wannabe candidate to lead a minority party in the House of Commons; a British prince whose chance of becoming king is, failing accidents, at least 20 years off; and four US senators, one of whom has been indicted for taking bribes himself... By John Helmer
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How the Cayman Islands Became a FIFA Power
Chickens scurried about on Friday morning as a bulldozer spread crushed rock for a new soccer field with artificial turf at the Cayman Islands Football Association. It might seem unlikely that FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, has spent $2.2 million since 2002 to build a new headquarters for the soccer association and to fund two planned fields, given that the land is swampy and a grass field struggled to exist in brackish conditions.
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Sepp Blatter re-elected as Fifa president for fifth term
Sepp Blatter has been officially re-elected as Fifa’s president for a fifth term by the world governing body’s 209 member associations
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Fifa 16 to add women's teams for the first time
In what is likely to be the only piece of positive PR that the world football governing body will receive this week, publisher Electronic Arts has announced it will be introducing female footballers into its Fifa video game series, beginning with the forthcoming Fifa 16 edition. The game features 12 international all-female teams, 11 of whom will appear at next month’s World Cup finals, including hosts Canada as well as England, Brazil, Germany and Spain.
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Fifa officials 'corrupted' football
US prosecutors have accused several officials from football's governing body Fifa of racketeering, fraud and money laundering involving tens of millions of dollars over 24 years. Prosecutors said they had discovered a dozen schemes, including one awarding the 2010 World Cup to South Africa. Fourteen people have been indicted, with seven held in Zurich on Wednesday. Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who is not among them, issued a statement vowing to kick out corrupt officials.
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FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S.
As FIFA leaders gathered for a meeting, Swiss law enforcement officials arrived unannounced and made arrests at the Justice Department’s request on charges including racketeering and money laundering.
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Proudly supporting the human rights abuses of World Cup 2022
Someone has taken Coke "Share Happiness" logo & made an ad to remind them of the happiness they're sharing in Qatar.
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1,000 Indian Workers Dead. The Grim Reality Of Qatar's FIFA World Cup Dream
The 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup will kill more Indians than the numbers of players it will host. This is what Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation said last year, when news of Qatari human rights violations made headlines. A thousand Indians had already died, and a year later, we’ve only rescued Indians from the Gulf country when bombs fell, but ignored the darker, hidden world of Indian migrants in these nations.
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German TV Program Shows Qatar Slave Conditions, More FIFA Corruption
FIFA is horrible and untold numbers of people will needlessly die so Qatar can have its soccer stadiums for the World Cup. You know that already, but sadly there’s always more corruption and exploitation to expose when it comes to FIFA. The latest details comes from a pair of German networks, ARD and WDR. Journalists working on the project said they were detained, had all their material erased, and their equipment demolished while shooting in Qatar.
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FIFA says 2022 World Cup final in Qatar will be on Dec. 18
The final of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be on Dec. 18, the country’s national holiday. FIFA confirmed on Thursday the date of the world’s most watched sports event more than four years after it controversially chose the tiny Gulf emirate as host. Finally, Qatar got its reward for enduring an investigation into alleged corruption in the bidding process, and a European-led furor over moving the World Cup from its traditional June-July period.
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Qatar 2022 World Cup set for switch to start or end of year
FIFA has announced that two options have emerged as the most likely dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar - and both are in the winter.
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The inside story of how Chuck Blazer, ex-U.S. soccer executive and FIFA bigwig, became a confidential informant for the FBI
New York City's Blazer, a former member of the FIFA Executive Committee and a top boss for CONCACAF, gathered information on some of international soccer's most powerful figures.
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"Qatar will not host World Cup" - FIFA's Zwanziger
The 2022 World Cup will not be held in Qatar because of the scorching temperatures in the Middle East country, FIFA Executive Committee member Theo Zwanziger said on Monday. "I personally think that in the end the 2022 World Cup will not take place in Qatar," the German told Sport Bild on Monday.
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Nigeria are suspended by Fifa
Nigeria have been suspended from all international football by Fifa amid allegations of government interference in its football federation. The ban means no Nigerian team - including club sides - can play internationally.
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Even International Quidditch Has a Concussion Problem
What FIFA can learn from the official sport of witchcraft and wizardry.
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