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DOHA, Qatar Qatar has welcomed an investigation into alleged corruption in its victorious 2022
World Cup bid. The 2022 host nation said the evidence put forward so far was false, unsubstantiated
and coming from a whisteblower who is probably a former employee "with a significant axe to grind."
Qatar has been on the defensive [.
LONDON/ZURICH Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president who is standing for re-election admits there is a
ground swell of popular support to rehold the 2022 vote won by Qatar The Fifa president Sepp
Blatter made the startling disclosure yesterday that he could not rule out a rerun of the voting
for the right to host [.
NYON, Switzerland — AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso was banned by UEFA for four matches
Monday after he head-butted a Tottenham coach at a Champions League match. UEFA's disciplinary body
"ruled that Gattuso had assaulted the Tottenham assistant coach Joe Jordan after the match," the
European football authority said in a statement.
GUATEMALA CITY The president of a soccer team whose second-in-command was killed two days ago has
also received threats apparently related to the club's poor performance, Guatemalan police said
Sunday. Carmelino Hidalgo, a spokeswoman for police in the northern province of Huehuetenango, said
Xinabajul club president Mauro Rodriguez reported receiving threats as did [.
ZURICH, Switzerland — Soccer's ruling body has postponed Yemen's home qualifying game for the
2012 Olympics against Singapore because of anti-government protests. FIFA says it agreed with the
Asian Football Confederation to delay Wednesday's scheduled first-leg match by one week until March
2. FIFA says the game could be switched to a neutral country if [.
NEW YORK, NY In an article on Sports Illustrated titled "It's time for someone to depose Sepp
Blatter as FIFA's leader" journalist Grant Wahl has announced his intentions to run for FIFA's
presidency. Current FIFA president Sepp Blatter is running for his fourth term, with elections
falling on June 1.
MADRID, Spain David Silva came off the bench to rescue Spain and give the world champions a 1-0 win
in a friendly against Colombia at the Bernabeu. The home side looked to be heading for a
frustrating draw until the Manchester City midfielder, who had replaced Xabi Alonso 10 minutes
earlier, poked the ball [.
DALLAS, Tx. Of all the commercials seen during yesterday's Super Bowl, one seems to have captured
the imagination more than others; perhaps even more than Christina Aguilera's messing up of the
Star Spangled Banner and the pulsating end to the game itself. One ad where a child in the full
Darth Vader costume attempts [.
BERNE, Switzerland Europe's big-spending soccer clubs were warned on Tuesday that their recent
frenzy of transfer activity could affect their ability to meet UEFA's new financial rules aimed at
making them live within their means. The European governing body also repeated its determination to
stamp out reckless spending one day after the end of [.
PARIS, France — Marseille boss Didier Deschamps admitted his team flopped in front of Sir Alex
Ferguson on Sunday as the Manchester United boss scouted his Champions League opponents. Marseille
drew 0-0 at relegation-haunted Monaco, a result which left the French champions in fifth place in
the table.
VANCOUVER, BC Support is building for staging the 2015 women's World Cup of soccer in Vancouver. At
a meeting on Feb. 3, city council will vote on a parks board recommendation to endorse the Canadian
Soccer Association's bid to bring the big event to Canada. The bid includes Vancouver as one of the
six [.
LIVERPOOL, England Liverpool forward Ryan Babel has been fined £10,000 ($15,800) and warned about
his future conduct by the Football Association after admitting a charge of improper conduct
relating to comments and images posted on Twitter concerning referee Howard Webb. Babel incurred
the wrath of the governing body when tweeting a doctored photo of [.
PORT-HARCOURT, Nigeria Barely two weeks after they were rewarded with cars and cash gifts for
winning the West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup by the Rivers State government, the domestic
league and indeed the families of Sharks FC of Port-Harcourt players and officials would have been
thrown into mourning after the Port-Harcourt side's team [.
LITTLE ELM, Texas — Uche Okafor, a defender on two Nigerian World Cup teams and a stalwart
player for the Kansas City Wizards in the U.S., committed suicide this week at his Dallas-area
home, authorities said Friday. He was 43. Okafor's body was discovered Thursday afternoon by his
wife in their house in Little Elm, [.
?DOHA, Jordan — Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein stunned powerful South Korean Chung Mong-Joon
by unseating him as a FIFA vice-president on Thursday while Mohamad bin Hammam won another term as
AFC chief. Chung, the controlling shareholder in industrial giant Hyundai Heavy Industries, a major
FIFA sponsor, had been in the job since 1994 [.
