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Peruvian goalie drop-kicks referee in the back after receiving a yellow card
During a Copa Peru match between Union Perene and Pichanaki, Perene goalie Paulo Insua lost his mind after receiving a yellow card from the referee.As video first published by L'Equipe shows, the...
View ArticleJordanian prince: FIFA president has 'cost us our dignity'
Zurich (AFP) - Prince Ali bin al Hussein on Monday accused FIFA president Sepp Blatter of leading an administration of waste that ignores ethics as he stepped up a leadership battle ahead of a vote...
View ArticleRussia plans to use prison labor for the 2018 World Cup
Russian authorities want to use prison labor to drive down the costs of holding the 2018 World Cup.The Russian prison service is backing a bid by Alexander Khinshtein, a lawmaker from the ruling United...
View ArticleGerman soccer team gets relegated after goalie makes diving save only to have...
Playing in his final game with SC Freiburg in the German Bundesliga, veteran defender Pavel Krmas was hoping to save his longtime club from relegation. Instead, the 35-year-old sealed Freiburg's fate...
View ArticleAlex Morgan says FIFA president Sepp Blatter had no idea who she was when she...
US women's national team forward Alex Morgan is one of the best and most recognizable soccer players in the world heading into the Women's World Cup in Canada.But when she was one of the three...
View ArticleThe US has a brutal group in the Women's World Cup, but it might not even matter
The U.S. women's national team enters the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada as one of the favorites to win it all.But if they're going to win their first World Cup since 1999, they'll have to do it out...
View ArticleFIFA officials arrested on corruption charges; Swiss prosecutors open...
Authorities in Zurich on Wednesday arrested several high-ranking FIFA officials on racketeering and corruption charges and will most likely extradite them to the US, The New York Times reported.The...
View ArticleThe story behind the former top-ranking FIFA executive who reportedly became...
Authorities arrested more than a dozen people on Wednesday as part of an investigation of corruption within FIFA, soccer's world governing body, The New York Times reported.And the man who reportedly...
View ArticleSwiss federal prosecutors are opening criminal proceedings into the 2018 and...
ZURICH (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after seven soccer officials...
View ArticleFIFA's 'byzantine and impenetrable' empire is wobbling
Several top officials at FIFA, soccer's world governing body, were hit with corruption charges on Wednesday.Authorities showed up to a five-star hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, where FIFA was having its...
View ArticleEurope's soccer chiefs want to postpone the FIFA presidential election after...
WARSAW (Reuters) - European soccer's governing body UEFA has called for Friday's FIFA presidential election to be postponed, secretary general Gianni Infantino told reporters on Wednesday."We strongly...
View ArticleThe most damning bribery allegations from the bombshell case against FIFA
The US Department of Justice arrested nine FIFA officials and five sports marketing executives on bribery and corruption charges in a dramatic raid in Zurich on Wednesday.The indictment alleges...
View ArticleSepp Blatter may wriggle away from Justice Department investigators
Sepp Blatter and his FIFA cronies, who have run world football as a personal cash machine since the 1970s, appear to be betting they'll wriggle off the hook this time, just as they have every other...
View ArticleEnglish soccer chairman: 'Blatter has to go'
ZURICH (AP) — The chairman of the English Football Association says FIFA President Sepp Blatter should leave his job immediately in the wake of the string of corruption arrests of some of the...
View ArticleCoca-Cola, Visa and Adidas are responding to the FIFA corruption scandal
LONDON (AP) — FIFA's sponsorship paymasters are facing mounting calls to put pressure on soccer's global governing body to clean up its act — and fast — following Wednesday's arrest of seven...
View ArticlePutin suggests the US FIFA investigation is a ruse to take the 2018 World Cup...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the United States is meddling in FIFA's affairs in an attempt to take the 2018 World Cup away from his country.Putin said in televised comments...
View ArticleSepp Blatter held an emergency FIFA meeting while avoiding the press
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has chaired an emergency meeting with continental soccer bodies, while staying out of public view himself.Blatter called together leaders of FIFA's six regions Thursday as...
View ArticleThe US and Swiss timed the FIFA raids perfectly
For months, American and Swiss investigators worked in secret to prepare for the raids that would shake the soccer world.They knew that the moment to strike would come when FIFA, the sport's governing...
View ArticleThe pressure is mounting on FIFA's all-powerful president ...
Pressure mounted on FIFA President Sepp Blatter on Thursday as the corruption scandal engulfing world soccer's governing body deepened, with warnings from big sponsors and growing criticism from senior...
View ArticleFIFA is staining the beautiful game
Soccer is a game, a beautiful game — but it isn't only a game.It is a global cultural obsession, and its quadrennial showcase, the World Cup, is one of the biggest entertainment spectacles on the...
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