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DILI (6 July 2011) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter warned on Monday that football players and officials found guilty in the on-going probe into a match-fixing scandal in Asia would face life bans. “When those people are condemned and found guilty, we will ban them for life, whether they are players or administrators,” Blatter told…
Whenever Daniel Bravo thinks back to his playing days, the pangs of regret never take long to kick in. “Mine’s the story of the guy who let his career pass him by,” he has said, overlooking his healthy list of medals and a time in the game that continued into his 38th year. The former…
DILI (29 June 2011) – The third round draw for the 2012 Olympic Games qualifiers will be held on 7 July 2011 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. Twelve teams have qualified for the third round where they will be divided into three groups of four teams each with the three group winners qualifying…
DILI (19 June 2011) – The AFC Medical Committee’s first meeting for the 2011-2015 term was held this week under the chairmanship of Malaysia’s Dato’ Dr Gurucharan Singh. The committee decided that all new registered players for the AFC U-16 Championship be subject to MRI scanning at an AFC accredited MRI Centre, under the…
DILI (15 June 2011) – Clubs in Europe’s top five leagues generate Euro8.4 billion (USD12.2 billion) a season, but that revenue is being outstripped as salaries rise at a faster pace. A survey of football finances found that while the total revenue for clubs in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France rose by 5%, their…
DILI (9 June 2011) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has named opera legend Placido Domingo, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Dutch football icon Johan Cruyff to a ‘council of wisdom’ to help solve FIFA’s woes. The 75-year-old global football supremo, elected unopposed to a fourth and final term as FIFA president last…