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On May 27, 2015, the U.S Department of Justice unsealed a massive indictment of fourteen officials for soccer from across the world, including top officials in FIFA. The indictment alleges widespread corruption has been going on for over the last two decades including wire fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice charges, and bribery in regards to [...]
Continue Reading →Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the English Premier League is its most popular professional league. This includes the United States, where the league’s television broadcast ratings doubled from 2012 to 2013, and have now surpassed those of the US’s own Major League Soccer.
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Continue Reading →According to a report from German newspaper Der Spiegel, FIFA (soccer’s international governing body) is looking into suspicious betting patterns during several recent soccer matches. In particular, during a recent exhibition match between Nigeria and Argentina, more than $1.5 million was wagered in the final ten minutes of the game that Argentina [...]
Continue Reading →The International Federation of Association Football, commonly known as FIFA, is making international sports headlines this week amid allegations of corruption. FIFA is the international governing body of football (better known as soccer to us Americans). Lord David Triesman, the former chairman of The Football Association (FA) and the head of England’s failed 2018 World Cup bid, accused [...]
Continue Reading →Besides the NBA playoffs, the 2010 World Cup has been the sporting event of the summer that has captured American attentions, even those of us who usually do not follow soccer. Although my interest has waned a little since the U.S. team lost to Ghana in a round sixteen match, I think that Americans, [...]
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