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The Guardian June 2
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'Sepp Blatter to resign as Fifa president – as it happened'
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'Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter is now part of the corruption probe by US prosecutors, according to reports by the New York Times, ABC News and Reuters.'
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'Blatter, in a shock announcement on Tuesday, said he would step down as Fifa president, though said he would stay in place for several months to allow a “proper election” of a successor.'
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'Uefa president Michel Platini: “It was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right decision.”'
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'Qatar has responded to claims that more than a thousand migrant workers have died during the construction of its World Cup sites, insisting: Not a single worker’s life has been lost. Not one.'
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'The Qatar Football Association also replied snippily to claims by English FA chairman Greg Dyke that they would be having a sleepless night after the resignation of Blatter, saying: We would urge Mr Dyke to let the legal process take its course and concentrate on delivering his promise to build an England team capable of winning the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar.'
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English Football Association chief executive Greg Dyke: “It’s a brilliant day for the game. If I was the Qatari organisers I wouldn’t sleep very well tonight.”
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If the issue came down to the most reasonable FIFA World Cup host candidates surely Europe with all of its football stadiums and top leagues would be awarded most of the World Cups.
No doubt the awarding is political.
The United States, Brazil and Argentina also being viable candidates. The United States of course with many professional league and NCAA University stadiums and Brazil and Argentina major football leagues.
Even Canada would make more sense as a site than Qatar, hosting the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and with several new and renovated stadiums in the country.
With Qatar being awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It will be the first Autumn-Winter World Cup due to the intense heat that would occur in the Spring-Summer in that time of the year.
Quite the political compromise.
Further, is FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) even necessary?
Could not UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) which is the most powerful football association by far featuring the most powerful and wealthy leagues, simply host the UEFA World Cup inviting nations that qualify from their own regional confederations/associations?
Perhaps the decentralization of football is needed?
On the other hand, perhaps UEFA would become as corrupt as FIFA?
But as it stands now, as UEFA is where most of the football money is at, FIFA is not really necessary in my view.
It is a level of unnecessary, political bureaucracy.
Both FIFA and UEFA have headquarters in Switzerland.
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Daily Mail June 1
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'UEFA plotting breakaway 'World Cup' in bid to force reform and get rid of Sepp Blatter
A European Championship every two years has been proposed
It would see invites to other big football countries outside Europe UEFA are putting the idea forward in their fight against FIFA corruption'
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'Since the World Cup was first played for in 1930, the winner has always come from Europe or Latin America, whose football hotbeds of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Colombia might all take up a UEFA invite.'
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UEFA does not need FIFA...
I do not think the football world needs FIFA...
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James 5:1-6
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Misuse of Riches
5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! 4 Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of [a]Sabaoth. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have [b]fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and [c]put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.
Footnotes: James 5:4 I.e. Hosts James 5:5 Lit nourished James 5:6 Or murdered New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
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