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UEFA member Gibraltar will appeal FIFA decision rejecting its incorporation
Gibraltar's football association has announced it will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after FIFA rejected its bid to become a member. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the “FA of Gibraltar cannot be accepted as a member of FIFA” because it contravened the world governing body's statutes regarding independent territories. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSepp Blatter said the “FA of Gibraltar cannot be accepted as a member of FIFA” because it contravened the world governing body's statutes regarding independent territories,
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Slightly confused here,
Are they saying that if you are not a sovereign independent country, you cannot join UEFA ??
cry baby Picardo does it again!! he wants to play with the big boys...LOL BUT FIRST TEACH THE UEFA GIB TEAM TO PLAY FOOTBALL lol lol THEY ARE GETTING NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL SCORES....LOL
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Silly response...
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 03) I KNOW THE TRUTH HURTS!! how can you play with the big boys in the block if the young lads don´t even know how to kick a ball!!! My advice is the should get a SPANISH COACH to teach them how play football FOR GOD´S SAKE!!! lol lol
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its only a game..
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0tell that to Picardo..
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Spain still hasn't recovered from Gibraltar outsmarting them and joining UEFA.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gibraltar might not win many games but they are still playing. And Spain can't stop them.
@4
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey Aussie, have you got your ticket booked for the big friendly next year: Catalunya v Gibraltar at Camp Nou. I hear its gonna be a sell out ;)
*8 KEEP ON DREAMING!!
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*7 outsmarting??? Spain does not have to say anything.THEY ARE MAKING A FOOL OF THEMSELVES ON THEIR OWN. lol
they only have to give blatter a bribe to sort all this out, sorry meant to say watch
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The FIFA rules were changed in 2004 to include the text:
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“In this context, the expression “country” shall refer to an independent state
recognised by the international community”
This was done partially to exclude Gibraltar, but also Kosovo. It ignores that 14 current FIFA members (excluding the 'home' nations) are not independent states.
And, crucially, it is a change made 8 years after Gibraltar applied to FIFA.
As the CAS ruling re: UEFA was that Gibraltar's application had to be accepted because it was eligible at the time of application (UEFA also changed its rules - in 2001 and in 2006 - to try and retrospectively exclude Gibraltar) - then it seems likely that they will tell FIFA precisely the same thing.
All this will do is stall it a few years. Unfortunately, that is not long enough for Spain to grow up into a mature state, so we'll have to expect the same lip-pouting and foot-stamping when it happens.
Oh, and Aussiesunshine, one question: when are you playing the Netherlands again?
Spanish sunshine
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Picardo is doing a great job with Gibraltar's economy unlike Rajoy.
2% unemployment -v- 25%. A politicians prime responsibility is to create employment opportunities for their electorate.
Viva Picardo!
*11 and one question for you: when are you playing Italy again LOL LOL LOL
Oct 01st, 2014 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or and I nearly forgot; when are you playing Uruguay again?? LOL LOL LOL
By the way, spain has BROKEN ALL RECORDS IN FOOTBALL.
So your post is rather childish......
it certainly is an independent territory;
Oct 01st, 2014 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0one protected by the UK
- somewhat similar to all the other small territories/countries of Europe.
11
Oct 01st, 2014 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“In this context, the expression “country” shall refer to an independent state
recognised by the international community”
Is Wales or Scotland an independent state...?
They are members....
Since when has Mr Corruption set himself up as on a par with the General Secretary of the UNO and to be able to judge whether Gibraltar is a “country” or not?
Oct 01st, 2014 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who does he think he is?
Oh dear, spanisharseholee is on his own, no support from the other argies, what can that mean?
Oct 01st, 2014 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pity he is such a dick head he can't tell truth from a pack of lies from the Chief FIFA crook?
I suppose Spain always played in the highest ranking games from the first day they kicked a ball, NOT.
Give him his dummy to suck on and keep him quiet. If he hasn’t got his dummy Blatter’s dick will do for him.
Trolls have given up? Or are the trolls are being trained up by La Camping It Up for when TMBOA is gang banged by her new mates the Chin. We all know what they think of the two Yuan whore and women in general.
“UEFA member Gibraltar will appeal FIFA decision rejecting its incorporation”
Oct 01st, 2014 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0these llanitos are not too bright, are they?
first they need to learn to play.
second they need a real country to represent.
3rd class colonies are not allowed at the fifa
ChrisR
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tsk tsk language!!!!!!!!
Dickhead is one word not two.
#13: Did you know that Spain's first ever international match was against Gibraltar?
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Besides: we know we won't win many games. We have a population of 30,000. But what is really funny is that mighty Spain is too frightened to play against us and has asked UEFA to make sure we are kept away from them in qualifiers.
Of course - Spain is only interested when it can pick on schoolboys
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020393/Spanish-spoilsports-Gibraltar-boys-football-team-booed-flag-seized-banned-opening-ceremony.html
Big, manly country. What brave people.
So brave that, at the recent NATO summit, when the real countries discussed what to do about Ukraine, ISIS etc, feeble, little, playground bully Spain wasn't even invited to the meetings. Was it?
*20 well put it this way!!.....I believe Spain does not want to play with you because they do not want to embarass you more that you are. What would the score be??!!
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Gibraltar 0------spain 20. Picardo would not know where to hide himself. lol lol
#18 #21
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you two seriously suggesting that Gibraltar should be excluded because they're not as good as neighbouring countries with 1000 times the population? So you believe San Marino, Andora, and Cambodia should also be excluded from FIFA then?
Spain doesn't want to play to Gibraltar because they are scared that doing so would be de facto acknowledgement that Gibraltar is not in fact Spanish. The Spanish FA (and in fact the entire Spanish state) are behaving like children. Let us know when you've grown up.
Worth repeating -
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Spain doesn't want to play to Gibraltar because they are scared that doing so would be de facto acknowledgement that Gibraltar is not in fact Spanish.'
@ 19 Anglotino
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL
I bow to your superior knowledge, sir. :o)
what can a bunch of llanitos or a bunch of kelpers know about football?
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0nobody, and that means none of the top 50 nations, want to play against the inhabitants of that rock because it is a waste of time, and worse, a waste of money.
who the f*ck would watch a match against...gibraltar LOL
not even the macacos
“what can a bunch of llanitos or a bunch of kelpers know about football?”
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah being British. And anritain inventing the modern game. What would they know.
Bahahahahahaha
Gibraltar Football Association was founded FOURTEEN years BEFORE Spain's.
Typical Argentinean, always trying to rewrite history.
anglotine
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0you are not very fond to football, are you?
i strongly doubt it, since you are...australian.
almost at the same category of the llanitos & kelpers regarding football.
and the british did not invent anything...lol
football is as old as life.
#27
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 07:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's really sad, you just don't get the spirit of the game do you? Of course your nation has demonstrated this with its cheating and political stunts, and Spain with its bullying tactics.
Since joining UEFA the Gibraltar team have had 3 losses, 2 draws (including against Slovakia, FIFA ranked 45), 1 win. Which I think is fairly respectable for the smallest nation in UEFA.
“british did not invent anything” perhaps we didn't invent kicking an object around, but we codified the modern game and made it the sport it is today.
It must drive you mad knowing that you and your Spanish “friends” will never get your hands on the Falklands or Gibraltar respectively. In your impotence all you can do is denigrate and insult two nations, that despite their small size, provide their inhabitants with a much better standard of living and opportunities than your nations can.
well!! NEVER is an ADVERB that most spaniards ignore.It is not in their vocabulary.If they had used the NEVER, America would not have been discovered. or the circumnavigation of the world would never had happened. would´ve it???
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0#29
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“If they had used the NEVER, America would not have been discovered.” What an utterly meaningless sentence.
But anyway, you do realise that neither Columbus nor Magellan were Spaniards right?
To make you happier though,
It must drive you mad knowing that you and your Spanish “friends” will **almost certainly** never get your hands on the Falklands or Gibraltar respectively.
Who does he think he is?
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sepp Blatter thinks hes God, just like Bernie shrimp Ecclestone..and all other utterly corrupt big-cheeses.
Gibraltar will win inclusion, its just a matter of time and legal proceedings... unlike the Argentines Gib will go to court as it has confidence in its own case.
...and they dont stone Top Gear out of the country either... :-0
#30
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oh look, no response, what a surprise. Cowards.
S
How come the Faroe islands are allowed to compete? They are still attached to Denmark. And Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England are not independent countries either.
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Blatter won't last forever.
Gibraltar's team will prevail.
When Catalonia become independent they will require to compete separately from Spain.
Bring it on.
why you opine about football is a mystery.
Oct 04th, 2014 - 01:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0you have never set foot in a football field in your entire life, you don´t even have a pitch in the islets, but suddenly all of you become experts...lol
gibraltar and the falklands are not qualified to be in the fifa because: they are not nations, they are just 3rd class colonies, and most important, because they don´t have the slightest clue about playing.
anyway a match falklands vs gibraltar would be the funniest thing ever.
not to be played on a pitch but in a circus, of course.
#34
Oct 04th, 2014 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Paul, you tried at least.
Gibraltar is a member of UEFA, and thus should qualify for membership of FIFA. While it is not a sovereign state recognised by the UN that condition on membership in both organisations was only brought in after Gibraltar applied, hence why CAS ruled they should be permitted to join UEFA, and will presumably do the same thing with FIFA. This despite the Spanish FAs desperate belligerence.
“because they don´t have the slightest clue about playing.”
Having recently defeated a UEFA/FIFA member (with 15 times the population) and drawn against a top 50 FIFA ranked team I think they know how the game is played.
“you have never set foot in a football field in your entire life, you don´t even have a pitch in the islets, but suddenly all of you become experts...lol”
Still under the foolish belief that everyone who supports the Falklands is an Islander? I have never been to the Islands, I have lived most of my life in the UK (specifically Yorkshire, Durham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, London, and Sussex); the home of modern football.
“they are not nations, they are just 3rd class colonies, ”
That have a better standard of living that Argentina by far.
There is very little reason why the Gibraltar FA and even the Falkland Islands FA should be excluded from FIFA, the inhabitants of these territories, are, as far as I know, not guaranteed to be eligible for any other FA. By excluding these territories you are excluded people from Sport, not based on ability, but geo-politics, which is wrong.
Face it, your attitude, like that of your government towards the Falklands, and Spain towards Gibraltar, is simply childish spite. All because you can't have them. Pathetic.
Both Falkland Islands and Gibraltar are NATIONS. Paul you need an education. Quite badly too.
Oct 04th, 2014 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0They are NATIONS.
They are STATES.
They are not NATION-STATES.
Is NABO the correct title for you right now?
*36 NATIONS..MY ARSE,BOY!!?? they are COLONIES until the UNITED NATIONS SAYS OTHERWISE!! GET IT??!!! STOOGE......
Oct 04th, 2014 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0anglotine
Oct 04th, 2014 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you seem to be a good chap, but regarding football you are a nabo.
the islets and that rock cannot be part of the fifa because they don´t have entity.
got it?
it would be as if the seleccionado de buenos aires wants to participate in a fifa championship.
they can´t. period.
and believe they are way better than most of the national teams affiliated to the fifa.
#37 #38
Oct 04th, 2014 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You two seem incapable of a logical argument.
“the islets and that rock cannot be part of the fifa because they don´t have entity.
got it?”
There are 24 teams in FIFA which are not recognised by the UN as independent entities. The closest parallel are the Faroe Islands which share a relationship with Denmark similar to that of Gibraltar to the UK, and have a comparable population (50k vs. 30k). If the Faroe Islands can be members then I can see no reason why Gibraltar or even the Falklands Islands could be. Now, FIFA and UEFA have changed their rules relatively recently to exclude new application from states without recognition. However, Gibraltar, who's FA predates the existence of FIFA/UEFA, applied before the rule change. Hence CAS ruled that they should be admitted to UEFA, and this is likely to happen with FIFA.
“it would be as if the seleccionado de buenos aires wants to participate in a fifa championship.”
No, are you really stupid to believe this analogy is correct. The inhabitants of Buenos Aires are covered by the Argentine FA (regrettably a FIFA member), neither the Falklands nor Gibraltar are represented by a FIFA FA, though both deserve to.
Do you get it yet?
Sunshine
Oct 05th, 2014 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0It doesn't matter what the UN says. I stand by my comment. You are too ill-educated to understand the difference between nations, states and nation-states.
It doesn't matter what their status at the UN is. The UN doesn't recognise or adjudicate on whether someone is a nation-stste or not, its members do.
The Falklands and Gibraltar are both nations. They are both states. They aren't nation-states.... yet.
Paul
I never said the Falkland Islands can or should be part of FIFA. Stop making stuff up. But they do have what you call football. That's where you were wrong.... again.
@37
Oct 05th, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“are COLONIES until the UNITED NATIONS SAYS OTHERWISE!! GET IT??!!! STOOGE......”
While they elect their own politicians to make laws they cannot be a colony.
When did you ever respect what the UN decides?
Argentina doesn't give a sh1t for international adjudication, which is why the C24 is ignored.
The UN represents THE WORLD...and the WORLD says that Gibraltar is a COLONY. Is it so difficult for a democrat to understand??!!
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