Tag: 2014 FIFA World Cup

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  FIFA will take no disciplinary action against player who injured Neymar

  

  FIFA will not take action against the Colombia player who injured Neymar and ended the Brazil star's World Cup. FIFA said its disciplinary panel “cannot consider this matter” under the rules because the match referee saw the challenge by Camilo Zuniga and judged it at the time.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:01 UTC

  FIFA hospitality's provider arrested over World Cup tickets scalping

  

  Rio do Janeiro state police said Monday they arrested the head of the soccer world governing body's hospitality provider, accusing him of aiding scalpers who illegally resold World Cup tickets worth an estimated 100 million dollars.

• Monday, July 7th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  World Cup tickets resale and investigation becomes major scandal for FIFA

  

  World football governing body FIFA has revealed that the son of Argentina Football Association (AFA) president Julio Grondona, Humberto, must present a report explaining his actions following a scandal over the resale of tickets at the 2014 World Cup.

• Saturday, July 5th 2014 - 08:48 UTC

  The Economist on Argentina: “The Luis Suarez of international finance”

  

  In its latest edition The Economist writes about Argentina’s debt stand-off, and states this “reflects a teenage attitude that rules are there to be broken”.

• Friday, July 4th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  Tragic overpass collapse resurfaces Brazil's World Cup spending controversy

  

  Concerns over Brazil's World Cup preparations took a deadly turn on Thursday after a partially finished highway overpass collapsed on a road below, killing at least two people and wounding at least 23 others in Belo Horizonte, according to state health officials.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 06:30 UTC

  Argentina, 'a key partner' of Russia says Putin ahead of his Buenos Aires visit

  

  As part of a broader South American tour, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be visiting Buenos Aires in July to lay the groundwork for joint projects between Russia and Argentina in the energy sector, including civilian nuclear technologies, military-technological cooperation and machine building.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  “FIFA leaders are a bunch of old sons of bitches”, said Uruguay president Mujica

  

  FIFA leaders are “a bunch of old sons of bitches” and could have imposed sanctions “but certainly not fascist sanctions” complained Uruguay's president Jose Mujica referring to the suspension suffered by Uruguay's scorer Luis Alberto Suárez who was banned for nine matches and with four months of complete football inactivity.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 02:40 UTC

  Bachelet delays trip to Washington to receive national football team

  

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet welcomed the national football team at Government House on Sunday afternoon thus delaying for a few hours her trip to the United States where on Monday she is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House.

• Saturday, June 28th 2014 - 10:23 UTC

  Uruguay's coach resigns FIFA post to protest 'excessive' ban of Suarez

  

  Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez has resigned his post in the FIFA strategic commission over the federation’s decision to ban Luis Suarez from the World Cup after the forward bit Italy’s defender Giorgio Chiellini during a group stage match.

• Friday, June 27th 2014 - 06:56 UTC

  Mujica strongly supports Suárez and blasts FIFA: “they went too far”

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica blasted FIFA's Thursday decision to fine and suspend the country's main scorer Luis Suarez from any football activity for four months arguing the association that rules world football measures things with different rods, and since Uruguay “is a small country, it's cheap for them”.