While racism has ever been a biggest problem no one could ever manage to control, this menace has crossed European border off late with continuous reports of incidents in Russia as well. Like Asia or South America, there used to be far less number of cases in this part of the world as far skin color discrimination is concerned but last few months carry a defining change in this assumption. Since next FIFA world cup is going to be hosted by Russia, it is evident they would try their best to control this peril as soon as possible. One of leading official in Russian football association has recently called racism as the deadliest virus that they need to eliminate before FIFA event could start else they can never stop themselves to be in line with other soccer regions where taunting others over their color, cast, and breed is a day to day affair. Anatoly Vorobyov, general secretary at Russian Football Union, said recently they are far away of doing anything concrete in this direction. If … [Read more...]

These days it is not easy to do anything against the rules book, especially after media’s active coverage of anything suspected in the field of soccer. We have seen how media exaggeratedly highlighted the Qatar issue and then whole world came to know what went wrong with infamous bidding process that allowed a hot State to host the biggest soccer event that too during summer. Though, investigations are still one about the 2022 world cup bidding process, a new revelation made by English news daily The Sunday Times specifically accused not only Arab nation but England and Russia as well for not following the correct procedure to win the world cup hosting rights for 2018 and 2022 FIFA events. The news published by Culture, Media and Sport revealed how Russia and Qatar organizers were engaged in vote trading during the bidding process and convincingly won the hosting rights while whole world was against of their entitlement for holding such a big event. Expectedly, all the three … [Read more...]

Ever since Qatar world cup controversy hit the headlines, trust in FIFA’s top management decisions has touched a new low and to win this lost confidence back, many executive members have long been asking to release all the materialistic facts about the controversial bidding in public, but for some reasons, neither FIFA nor Qatar has yet put anything in public domain. Recently, when ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert cleared both Qatar as well Russia for any irregularity it only got a silent support from its own members and like expected most of the members kept discussing about the wrongdoings in private. To make thing public, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has now written every executive committee member for their support for an urgent action over both upcoming world cups in 2018 and 2022, especially about how they could win the hosting rights. Despite severe pressure from every corner, Eckert refused to public the full report about the findings of a secrete … [Read more...]

Qatar word cup is the most talked about world cup in the history of FIFA, coz this mega event has been in the headlines ever since Arab State won the hosting rights some five years back. The reason of its over media space is the hot climate this State enjoys during June – the traditional timing for the world cup and for that reason many experts all over the world have long been criticizing governing body for picking an unfavorable place for the event which would be followed by billions of fans including hundreds of thousands who would be there in the venue during each game. To counter this widespread criticism, governing body provided many solutions including one where Arab organizers have promised to provide conditioned venues for the world cup games but that too was rejected by European medical experts calling it would pose another danger on the health of players and spectators since they can’t live inside the stadiums forever, they would have to leave the venues after game and enter … [Read more...]

Qatar world cup and controversies surrounding voting that chose the Arab nation to host its first world cup have been in the headlines but now it seems to be in concluding stage with a FIFA executive committee member almost threatens in his interview that they are positively thinking of shifting the venue to somewhere else coz of the heat. Although, these kinds of rumors have ever been in the air but this time it looks something serious especially after ethics committee started investigating 2010 bidding process where Qatar won the hosting rights. Notably, several recent findings alleged that some influential peoples played an important role in winning or rather buying the confidence of a section of voting members hence if anyhow, ethic committee finds anything wrong in the whole process, Arab state may be ousted from world cup penal at least for the 2022 world cup. Theo Zwanziger, the member of the executive committee, broke his silence about shifting the hosts in his interview to a … [Read more...]