Amid the exaggeration and curiosity about upcoming Brazilian world cup, CONCACAF Women's Championship 2014 is back in the news for its new host US. The event which is commonly referred as the last qualifying tourney for the Women World Cup is to be held this autumn. Though, for its world cup qualification, winner is not as important as top three teams are coz they would directly qualify for the 2015 World Cup in Canada while fourth placeholder would have to fight in last playoff with a South American nation. Since, this tourney is being organized by CONCACAF, more than 31 nations showed their interest in fighting for the world cup but only last eight teams would qualify for the Championship and this qualification process is scheduled to be started later this month. Actually, women soccer could never get a dominating representation in world soccer coz of the basic mentality that this is primarily a men sports and that is why every time a FIFA world cup is nearby, every other news gets … [Read more...]
Belize players revealed of being approached for fixing
Match fixing by organized gangs has become a major threat for soccer’s sovereignty across the world and another example of how these gangs operate is right here. Three Belize national soccer players have disclosed of an advance being made by a man before their CONCACAF Gold Cup group match. Apparently, the man wanted them to fix the match for some monetary benefits and according to Andres Makin Jr., Ian Gaynair, and Woodrow West, who were approached by the unknown man, he first tried to befriend with them and then he started revealing his intentions for the upcoming CONCACAF match. However, players denied agreeing any of his offers, in fact, they immediately parted their ways after knowing who he was. The match in question was against United States to be played on Tuesday night at Portland and later US won that match by 6-1. It could be surprising to see a big winning margin and after knowing the fixing row, it is highly possible that similar offers would have also been given to other … [Read more...]
Whistleblower Blazer banned after accusing embezzlement of $21m
It is not a far behind incident when FIFA executive member, a high net worth American: Chuck Blazer, raised the eyebrow of everyone by blowing a cash for vote scandal being happened among some of the CONCACAF members at that point of point, perhaps he was actually the convener of a major anti-corruption reform at FIFA. Today, he has himself been accused of embezzling more than $21m and hence is banned for any soccer related activities for an initial period of ninety days. It is a rare case where an accuser is becoming an accused after blowing a larger than life scandal at FIFA; perhaps it was him who caused a spate of Caribbean officials being sanctioned by FIFA. The ban imposed on former CONCACAF general secretary is provisional at the moment, but it can further be enhanced as investigations carry to their peak. In 2001, he was a public figure when he whistled an issue related to CONCACAF members who reportedly took money in bribe during a conference in Trinidad which was held to hear … [Read more...]
2022 Qatar World Cup can be moved to winter
Soccer is the sport of stamina; perhaps strength that players show playing in the outdoors. FIFA world cup has ever been the biggest soccer event; hence every player wants to make it sure that he misses nothing of it. Ever since FIFA has allowed Qatar to host 2022 world cup, there have been consistence demands from every part of the world to make sure it is played in winters there, coz in this part of the world; there is an extremely high temperature outside which could be dangerous for players. Until now, FIFA did not show any response on these demands, but now, it has made it clear that if it belongs to players’ health and temperature is really that high there, it can think of postponing the tournament to winters. Likewise, emirate has asked the governing body to make a call to shift the mega event. According to FIFA General Secretary, Jerome Valcke, executive committee could soon decide about this coz as per historical data maximum temperature there would be 104 which could lead to … [Read more...]