So Joseph Blatter made a slightly less questionable pronouncement last week by repeating his call for Major League Soccer to switch to a European calendar. I wrote a long piece earlier this year explaining the reasons why MLS won't, and to be honest shouldn't. I am not sure that a person like Blatter truly appreciates the challenges that a fall-to-spring MLS would face, from weather to pitches to media, and when he says that such a move would improve the popularity of the sport in this country, I find it challenging to believe that he knows what he is talking.

So Joseph Blatter made a slightly less questionable pronouncement last week by repeating his call for Major League Soccer to switch to a European calendar. I wrote a long piece earlier this year explaining the reasons why MLS won't, and to be honest shouldn't. I am not sure that a person like Blatter truly appreciates the challenges that a fall-to-spring MLS would face, from weather to pitches to media, and when he says that such a move would improve the popularity of the sport in this country, I find it challenging to believe that he knows what he is talking.

27.09.2011 - Eso de andar sugiriendo no es para el público del fútbol (?). O acaso no es el estadio, la cancha de fútbol, el templo donde sucumben enlodadas prohibiciones y pruritos (?). Un mosaico de muestra puede verse aquí y otro aquí.
Ya lo sabe (y lo expone) Antoni Muntadas, el artista catalán que reconoce "el estadio, que nos viene de los romanos y los griegos, está destinado a una cultura popular.

Der Mann versteht sein Geschäft seit 30 Jahren, umschifft jede Klippe auf hoher See.

Franz Beckenbauer, lebende Legende und ehemaliges Mitglied in unzähligen Ausschüssen, äußert sich über FIFA-Präsident Joseph Blatter.

Salón de la Fama del Fútbol en Pachuca
Estructura de 37 metros de alto, en forma de balon de fútbol. Sede del Salón de la Fama del Fútbol. Alado de la sede del Mundo Futbol, en el Parque David Ben Gurion en Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, México. Foto por ruber2011 Ruben Hernandez.

30.07.2011 - Más allá del altercado público en el que participan directa e indirectamente, Dilma Roseff, Joseph Blatter, Pelé, Ricaro Teixeira y el Daily Mail inglés, se llevó a cabo en Río de Janeiro el sorteo de los grupos clasificatorios que integran 166 selecciones de 5 confederaciones continentales de los que saldrán la mayoría de los 31 equipos que acompañarán a Brasil en 2014.

Before departing Pachuca for Queretaro, the U.S. U-17s got in a light training session at the CF Pachuca training grounds ... We could have stayed there for quite a while. The YNT Blog has seen some stadiums in it's time - NFL, NHL, etc - but we haven't seen anything quite like this. The locker room that the first team uses comes complete with the hot and cold tubs right there, personalized showers and personal televisions above every locker.

The whistleblower and the beneficiary: FIFA Executive Committe member Chuck Blazer, left, and newly-relected FIFA president Joseph Blatter in Zurich today where Blatter was elected to a final term as president of the world governing body of soccer (AP Photo).

Last man standing:

ZURICH (AP) -- Sepp Blatter was re-elected FIFA president on Wednesday after a major bribery scandal left him as the only candidate to deal with a sport reeling from a wave of corruption allegations.

Por snedecor
- Oye, Sepp, mira, es que tu rival Bin Hammam tenía pensado organizar una reunión con los presidentes de las federaciones caribeñas para comentarles un poco por encima su proyecto y bueno, ya sabes cómo son estas cosas, a lo mejor les ofrece algún dinerillo... Unos 40.000 dólares o así, pero para cubrir sus gastos, no es para que luego le voten ni nada de eso, ¿eh?

Jack Warner, vice-presidente da Fifa e presidente da Concacaf, suspenso neste domingo enquanto se investiga um suposto caso de fraude eleitoral, denunciou neste domingo em um comunicado uma "doação" de US$ 1 milhão de Joseph Blatter Concacaf. Warner disse estar "surpreso" pela suspensão e a considerou um "abuso" nos procedimentos disciplinares do Comitê de Ética da Fifa.

FIFA announced that there will be a press conference at the conclusion of the Ethics Committee meeting, and it will be streamed live on their website. The conference is scheduled to start at 1800 CET, which is in ten minutes from now. I don't see a direct link, but I imagine there will be one soon.

Tomorrow is the day of the FIFA ethics committee meeting, and its rulings will have significant implications on the governance of world soccer and especially that of the CONCACAF region. Already we're seen one casualty of the corruption investigations, as today Mohammed bin Hammam withdrew his campaign for the FIFA presidency.

Simply explosive news coming from FIFA headquarters this morning, as Reuters and London's Daily Telegraph report that CONCACAF president Jack Warner, AFC president (and FIFA presidential candidate) Mohammed Bin Hammam, and two Caribbean Football Union officials will be investigated by FIFA for bribery allegations.

A Fifa anunciou nesta segunda-feira que o Japão sediará o Mundial de Clubes este ano. A informação foi confirmada pelo presidente da Fifa, Joseph Blatter.
"Estou muito feliz que podemos organizar o Mundial de Clubes no Japão. Mais do que isso, estou honrado que podemos contribuir para reconstruir a estrutura da J.

La Unión de las Comoras, o simplemente las Comoras, Comores o Comoros, es un país formado por tres islas en el sureste de África, en el océano Índico, entre el norte de Madagascar y el norte de Mozambique.
Estas islas son Gran Comora (Ngazidja), Mohéli (Mwali) y Anjouan (Nzwani), mientras que la vecina isla de Mayotte (Mahore), reclamada por Comoras, sigue perteneciendo a Francia.

24 de enero de 2011, 00:05 Moscow, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) Russian PM Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Joseph Blatter signed an official statement in which his country is committed to host FIFA World Cup 2018 in a ceremony in San Petersburg. After signing ...

Quería iniciar mi primer escrito del año con algo relacionado al concepto de mujer y futbol, por ello se me vino a la mente tomar un poco de una investigación que realicé hace unos meses sobre la influencia del futbol en la sociedad, la cual me dio a conocer que en el mundo, según estadísticas de la FIFA, 40 millones de mujeres practican soccer, ya sea de manera profesional o amateur.

Quería iniciar mi primer escrito del año con algo relacionado al concepto de mujer y futbol, por ello se me vino a la mente tomar un poco de una investigación que realicé hace unos meses sobre la influencia del futbol en la sociedad, la cual me dio a conocer que en el mundo, según estadísticas de la FIFA, 40 millones de mujeres practican soccer, ya sea de manera profesional o amateur.