Columnist Kendall Tull, a certified management account and industrial management practitioner, explains how he would go about cleaning up FIFA: Sepp Blatter was not the problem at FIFA. It is easy to think that Blatter’s departure changes anything since he presided through an era of rampant corruption. But the FIFA …
Read More »Blatter’s presidential rival, Mayne-Nicholls, faces possible FIFA suspension
ONE OF FIFA’s top corruption investigators is claiming that the inspection report on countries bidding to host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022 can no longer be trusted, calling into question the votes that gave the tournament to Russia and Qatar. How come? A Zurich lawyer, hand-picked by Sepp …
Read More »FIFA flouted own principles in TTFA election delay
Have you ever heard the story about the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and the Big Bad Wolf? Well once upon a time there was a tiny island that was almost fooled into thinking that they were a sovereign football nation. No fairy tale is true. In reality the …
Read More »Shaka gets FIFA appointment; ex-W/Cup goalie on IFAB panel
Former World Cup 2006 and England Premier League goalkeeper Shaka Hislop has been appointed by FIFA to serve on an advisory panel for the influential International Football Association Board (IFAB), which discusses and decides upon proposed alterations to the laws of the game. Hislop, who now works as a football …
Read More »FIFA tries to justify TTFA stance; but doubts over zonal elections
The suspension of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) elections was, according to FIFA Associations Committee representative Primo Corvaro, an initiative of the world governing body, FIFA, rather than beleaguered local football president Raymond Tim Kee. Corvaro tried to make that point clear at a press conference yesterday afternoon …
Read More »TTFA versus Tim Kee: FIFA must referee civil war in T&T football
FIFA chose to involve itself in Trinidad and Tobago’s football business on an obscure premise. Now, the world governing body has no choice but to play referee. Two of the three Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) vice-presidents, Lennox Watson and Rudi Thomas, told Wired868 that they wrote to FIFA …
Read More »FIFA protects TTFA president: Tim Kee gets seven-month extension
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee will hang on to his football portfolio for another seven months at least after FIFA granted the local football body an undemocratic extension without citing any by-law that allowed its decision. The delay, according to correspondence sent by FIFA general …
Read More »Training compensation: What FIFA says you’re owed for developing talent
Are you unsure as to what, if anything, you are owed when a player you developed after the age of 12 turns professional? Wired868 publishes the FIFA by-law governing training compensation for players up until the age of 21, so you can figure it out yourself: Article 1: Objective 1. A …
Read More »Can FIFA blank T&T starlet Levi Garcia’s move to Europe?
Sixteen-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 attacker and Shiva Boys Hindu School football star, Levi Garcia, is set to leave for Europe next week in a controversial move engineered by Dutch agent Humphry Nijman. Here is what FIFA says about the movement of players under the age of 18: (FIFA …
Read More »FIFA sets TTFA deadline; senior Warriors blank Guadeloupe
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) financial woes can go from bad to worse if the local body cannot prove it is fit for business within the next four months. The FIFA press office informed Wired868 that the TTFA will not be eligible to receive any funding from 1 …
Read More »Omertà (Part Three): Havelange’s Golden Briefcase
Chapter 3: Havelange’s Golden Briefcase: Why is it so heavy when he leaves Zurich? ZURICH AIRPORT, anytime, 1974-1998. The easy thing for Rudi the chauffeur was meeting and greeting the FIFA President when his plane arrived from Paris. Havelange loved to stay a day or more in Paris on his …
Read More »Uruguay bites back: Suarez sinks England… but was he offside?
England was left tottering on the brink of elimination from Group D today after mad genius Luis Suarez bit twice to seal a 2-1 win for Uruguay. And if English fans are feeling sorry for themselves now, wait until they figure out that Suarez’s winner was probably offside. According to …
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