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Impotent CONCACAF To Plead For Fourth World Cup Spot
By Brian Straus - AOL NewsRemember back in high school when student government candidates would promise things they had absolutely no hope of delivering -- a soda machine in the cafeteria, the extra parking spaces, early release on football Fridays? Well, it appears that Jack Warner is running for class president. The December World Cup vote exposed the CONCACAF chief and his fellow FIFA executive committee members, American Chuck Blazer and Guatemala's Rafael Salguero, as nothing more than small-time gangsters, able to hold sway in their own little fiefdom but inconsequential at the varsity level. For all of ...
MLS To Back Off Schedule Shift Following World Cup Snub
By Brian Straus - AOL NewsBALTIMORE -- If FIFA doesn't want to play ball with the United States, than Major League Soccer isn't going to play ball with FIFA. MLS commissioner Don Garber on Thursday told FanHouse that the league is going to pocket its promise to look into shifting its season to the European fall-to-spring calendar -- it was a promise made to curry favor with FIFA days before the governing body awarded the World Cup to Qatar. FIFA president Sepp Blatter had pressed the U.S. Soccer Federation, and even President Barack Obama, about MLS's summer schedule. "It really is going to be a lot of work, but ...
Lionel Messi Wins FIFA's Player of the Year Award Despite Poor World Cup
By Brian Straus - AOL NewsIt's hard to argue with anyone who claims that Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world. But was he the player of the year? For the first time since it was introduced in 1991, the FIFA player of the year award has gone to someone who did not lift the World Cup the preceding summer. Fifty-eight goals in 54 club matches can make people forget about one disappointing tournament. So, despite missing out on both the World Cup and UEFA Champions League finals, Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or on Monday over Barcelona teammates and World Cup champions Xavi Hernández and Andrés ...
No Sex for Gays at Qatar World Cup? Was FIFA Chief Joking?
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Gay soccer fans unsure about attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal, should rest assured that they can attend the games ... as long as they refrain from sex, that is. That's according to FIFA chief Sepp Blatter, who stuck his foot in his mouth at a press conference in Johannesburg when he suggested jokingly that gays would be welcome at the games but should "refrain from any sexual activities" while in Qatar. Blatter did say that he wanted the World Cup to be inclusive. "We don't want racism, we don't want any discrimination. What we want to do is ...
Qatari Parents Name New Daughter 'Fifa' After World Cup Bid Win
By Matthew Hall - AOL News
(Dec. 13) -- Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup has inspired soccer-crazy local parents to name their new daughter after the sport's world governing body. The new parents named their baby daughter "Fifa" in tribute to the Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer's Swiss-based top administrative organization. The unnamed mother told local newspaper Al Raya she gave birth to baby Fifa on Dec. 2, the same day Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup. Osama Faisal, AP Qataris react in the streets of Doha on Dec. 2 after the announcement that Qatar will host ...
'Quatar,' 'Katar,' 'Qatar' All Trend After FIFA World Cup Announcement
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- Quatar, Katar and Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It's no surprise that the Internet is searching for "Qatar" -- spelled as such by the CIA's World Factbook -- after FIFA awarded the small Middle Eastern country the honor of hosting the 2022 World Cup over the United States. But the incorrectly spelled "Quatar" and "Katar" hitting Twitter's trending topics list? A little spell check, please. It's totally bizarre, actually -- you would think that the 140-character limit on Twitter would get folks to cut down on superfluous letters, not add them. In all likelihood -- ...
Qatar: Pros and Cons of the 2022 World Cup Site
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- The small Middle Eastern nation of Qatar has beat out Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States to win hosting rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the FIFA Executive Committee announced today. Shortly after the news broke, fans and sports analysts around the world began debating the wisdom of the decision letting Qatar, a nation of fewer than 2 million people, play host to the world's most popular sporting event. Surge Desk offers a look at key points being discussed across the Web. The lay of the land Qatar is about the same geographic size as Rhode Island, and the ...
Russia to Host World Cup in 2018; U.S. Loses 2022 Bid to Qatar
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailySports and politics -- or at least the politics of sports -- were at center stage Thursday as Russia was selected to host the 2018 World Cup and the United States lost out to Qatar as site of the 2022 tournament. The announcements were made in Zurich by FIFA, soccer's governing body. "We go to new lands," FIFA President Sepp Blatter said, according to the Associated Press. The decision to award Qatar the event 12 years from now ended American hopes to bring Cup play back to these shores for the first time since 1994. Also losing out were Australia, Japan and South Korea. The tiny Mideast ...
Russia Will Host 2018 FIFA World Cup: Twitter Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- Let eight years of Russian World Cup anticipation begin. FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced that Russia will host the 2018 World Cup at a televised news conference today in Zurich, Switzerland. "You have entrusted us with FIFA World Cup for 2018 and I just can promise, you will never regret," said Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov as he accepted the bid on the Russian delegation's behalf. "Let us make history together." It's unlikely Paul the Octopus could have predicted FIFA's other announcement. The international soccer organization revealed that Qatar -- ...
Germany, Uruguay Playing for 'Empty Cup'?
By David Moye - AOL News(July 9) -- If some people call the World Cup championship the biggest sporting event on the planet, what should the tournament's third-place game be called? The "Empty Cup"? Germany and Uruguay face off Saturday in the not-so-big game, and each country will be fighting for the right to yell "We're No. 3! We're No. 3! We're No. 3!" for the next four years. Along with ties, using points instead of wins to determine standings, and trying to draw penalties on the other team by faking injuries, the third-place game is yet another one of those things about soccer that Americans just don't get ...
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