Courtesy of NEW ZEALAND HERALD.
"I am going to win," Blatter said yesterday on a visit to the Palestinian Territory, seen as a bid to shore up support in the Middle East. "We need consolidation, not revolution."
Fifa is looking into whether executive committee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were paid US$1.5 million ($1.9 million) to vote for Qatar, which was awarded the 2022 World Cup.
Evidence from an investigation by the Sunday Times released to a British parliamentary hearing last week sparked those questions.
David Triesman, chairman of the English FA until last May, told lawmakers that Fifa executive committee members Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira and Worawi Makudi engaged in "improper and unethical" conduct in the 2018 bidding, won by Russia.
Bin Hammam has called on Blatter to stand down, accusing the 75-year-old Swiss official of allowing Fifa's image to be "sullied beyond compare".
The Qatari has pledged to expand the number of members on the committee that chooses the location of World Cups, and to make the organisation more transparent. He has denied being involved in any wrongdoing in Qatar's win in the 2022 vote.
Blatter said yesterday that he would not yet consider a rerun of the voting on the two World Cups.
The bribery allegation "is a matter of investigation ... once we have evidence and results we can go back" and reconsider further measures, he said.
In Ramallah, Blatter inaugurated the West Bank's first international club tournament on a symbolic day - the annual commemoration of the Palestinians' uprooting after Israel's founding 63 years ago.
- AP http://tinyurl.com/42oe8vj
Firstly, I would like to take umbrage with Mohamed Bin Hammam not about the recent allegations, but about himself as a person who espouses RHETORIC (Bullshit), as opposed to SUBSTANCE (Truth).
I make no apologies for the fact that I am biased against Bin Hammam, but he brought that upon himself when he endeavoured to have my nation's ONE and ONLY Professional Football Club pack up and leave HOME SOIL and relocate the CLUB to Australia OR DISBAND THE CLUB IN 2011.
Courtesy of 'PITCH INVASION'
"A bullying, selfish FIFA Confederation President pursuing his own agenda to the detriment of the development of the beautiful game? No, not Jack Warner, but AFC boss Mohamed Bin Hammam".
That, at least, is the perspective of much of New Zealand’s soccer media this week, following the AFC’s ultimatum to New Zealand’s Wellington Phoenix, who play in Australia’s A-League: become a lot more Australian, or else.
The AFC has said that if Wellington don’t severely limit the number of non-Australian players in their team, the A-League will lose its two AFC Champions League spots from 2012 on (after the expiration of the A-League’s current participation deal with the AFC). This would classify players from New Zealand as foreigners on a team based in New Zealand.
The following demands were reportedly sent by the AFC to Football Federation Australia (FFA):
In a post typical of the reaction, Michael Brown of the New Zealand Herald says Bin Hammam is “bullying” Phoenix.
Despite the uproar and outcry, it’s hard not to see that the AFC have a point. After all, Wellington play in Australia’s A-League, which is a little incongruous not only because Wellington isn’t in Australia, but because New Zealand and Australia aren’t even in the same FIFA Confederation, following the latter’s move from Oceania to the AFC in 2005.
But the AFC have handled the dispute abysmally, with the news report from the Confederation on the issue removed from their website a day after publication, with no explanation provided.
A severe limitation on the number of Kiwis on Wellington, or their departure from the A-League, would be a serious blow to the development of the sport in New Zealand. Ricki Herbert is the manager of both the Wellington Phoenix and the New Zealand national team, with many core members of the team playing for him at both club and country. Perhaps a little generously, the Sydney Morning Herald calls Wellington the best-run club in the A-League:
The FFA and Wellington ought to be able to find a work-around for this, but it may require the involvement of FIFA to solve a dispute between confederations, meaning the politics will only get an awful lot messier.
http://tinyurl.com/47ghx7p
Bin Hammam's Blog shows that he is a 'HYPOCRITE'
FOOTBALL FOR ALL, ALL FOR FOOTBALL
The timely intervention of FIFA, President Sepp Blatter certainly put paid to the DEMANDS OF THE AFC'S PRESIDENT, MOHAMED BIN HAMMAM.
Courtesy of The Wellington Phoenix FC WIKIPAEDIA ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
"Despite the backing of FIFA, AFC President Mohammed Bin Hammam has stated that due to AFC criteria the Wellington team must move to Australia or disband by 2011. However in an interview aired on SBS on 21 December 2008 FIFA President Sepp Blatter stated unequivocally that "It is not the matter of the Confederation, it is the matter of the FIFA Executive Committee... If Wellington will go on play on in Australian League, then as long as Australian league wants to have them and Wellington wants to stay (and) Both association in this case, New Zealand Soccer and Australian Football are happy with that then we will give them the blessing. The Confederation can not interfere with that."
On 20 April 2010, the FFA granted the Phoenix a 5-year licence extension, keeping it in the competition until at least the conclusion of the 2015-16 season".
MOHAMED BIN HAMMAM is a FAKE PERSON, JUST LIKE THE FAKE CLOUDS THAT QATAR WISH TO USE FOR THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 TO BE HELD IN HIS 'SANDPIT'....HOWEVER, I AM A FAIR-MINDED PERSON...NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL FEDERATION'S CHAIRMAN, FRANK VAN HATTUM IS A BIGOTED BULLY...FOR "THREATENING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST UNDER 10 YEAR OLD CHILDREN FROM TARANAKI SCHOOLS WHO JUST WANT TO PLAY SOCCER.
BY THE WAY FRANK, AOTEAROA aka NEW ZEALAND is an INTEGRATED MULTI-CULTURAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, NOT JUST PAKEHA KIDS PLAY SOCCER/FOOTBALL ...YOUR IMAGE CHOICE AT THE TOP OF YOUR CHAIRMAN'S REPORT...WHETHER YOU DENY IT OR NOT, CLEARLY INDICATES THAT YOU ARE A BIGOT...WE HAVE SOME LOVELY AU NATURAL TANNED CHILDREN WHO PLAY SOCCER AS WELL...IN AOTEAROA!
http://tinyurl.com/3nxp289 Courtesy of TARANAKI DAILY NEWS ONLINE...I have commented within this article.
http://tinyurl.com/3rb57po Courtesy of Stuff.co.nz
Sepp Blatter. File Photo / AP
Sepp Blatter says he is confident of being re-elected president of Fifa when world soccer's ruling body votes on June 1, brushing off calls from his rival, Mohammed bin Hammam, to stand down over claims of bribery facing Fifa officials."I am going to win," Blatter said yesterday on a visit to the Palestinian Territory, seen as a bid to shore up support in the Middle East. "We need consolidation, not revolution."
Fifa is looking into whether executive committee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were paid US$1.5 million ($1.9 million) to vote for Qatar, which was awarded the 2022 World Cup.
Evidence from an investigation by the Sunday Times released to a British parliamentary hearing last week sparked those questions.
David Triesman, chairman of the English FA until last May, told lawmakers that Fifa executive committee members Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira and Worawi Makudi engaged in "improper and unethical" conduct in the 2018 bidding, won by Russia.
Bin Hammam has called on Blatter to stand down, accusing the 75-year-old Swiss official of allowing Fifa's image to be "sullied beyond compare".
The Qatari has pledged to expand the number of members on the committee that chooses the location of World Cups, and to make the organisation more transparent. He has denied being involved in any wrongdoing in Qatar's win in the 2022 vote.
Blatter said yesterday that he would not yet consider a rerun of the voting on the two World Cups.
The bribery allegation "is a matter of investigation ... once we have evidence and results we can go back" and reconsider further measures, he said.
In Ramallah, Blatter inaugurated the West Bank's first international club tournament on a symbolic day - the annual commemoration of the Palestinians' uprooting after Israel's founding 63 years ago.
- AP http://tinyurl.com/42oe8vj
Firstly, I would like to take umbrage with Mohamed Bin Hammam not about the recent allegations, but about himself as a person who espouses RHETORIC (Bullshit), as opposed to SUBSTANCE (Truth).
I make no apologies for the fact that I am biased against Bin Hammam, but he brought that upon himself when he endeavoured to have my nation's ONE and ONLY Professional Football Club pack up and leave HOME SOIL and relocate the CLUB to Australia OR DISBAND THE CLUB IN 2011.
Courtesy of 'PITCH INVASION'
"A bullying, selfish FIFA Confederation President pursuing his own agenda to the detriment of the development of the beautiful game? No, not Jack Warner, but AFC boss Mohamed Bin Hammam".
That, at least, is the perspective of much of New Zealand’s soccer media this week, following the AFC’s ultimatum to New Zealand’s Wellington Phoenix, who play in Australia’s A-League: become a lot more Australian, or else.
The AFC has said that if Wellington don’t severely limit the number of non-Australian players in their team, the A-League will lose its two AFC Champions League spots from 2012 on (after the expiration of the A-League’s current participation deal with the AFC). This would classify players from New Zealand as foreigners on a team based in New Zealand.
The following demands were reportedly sent by the AFC to Football Federation Australia (FFA):
- Wellington Phoenix FC should be officially registered as a commercial entity in Australia under local law.
- To comply with the provisions of the Regulations, the number of foreign players (non-Australian) in Wellington Phoenix FC should be the same as in other clubs participating in the A-League. In case Wellington Phoenix qualifiy for the ACL, the 3+1 system should be implemented by the club according to the ACL Regulations.
- Otherwise, Wellington Phoenix FC should belong to the second division of the A-League, which should be newly created by the FFA.
In a post typical of the reaction, Michael Brown of the New Zealand Herald says Bin Hammam is “bullying” Phoenix.
Despite the uproar and outcry, it’s hard not to see that the AFC have a point. After all, Wellington play in Australia’s A-League, which is a little incongruous not only because Wellington isn’t in Australia, but because New Zealand and Australia aren’t even in the same FIFA Confederation, following the latter’s move from Oceania to the AFC in 2005.
But the AFC have handled the dispute abysmally, with the news report from the Confederation on the issue removed from their website a day after publication, with no explanation provided.
A severe limitation on the number of Kiwis on Wellington, or their departure from the A-League, would be a serious blow to the development of the sport in New Zealand. Ricki Herbert is the manager of both the Wellington Phoenix and the New Zealand national team, with many core members of the team playing for him at both club and country. Perhaps a little generously, the Sydney Morning Herald calls Wellington the best-run club in the A-League:
No Phoenix, no World Cup qualification. This is the pathway that was missing in 1981, the pathway that could take football across the Tasman to places it could only have dreamt of before property developer Terry Serepisos had his famous epiphany in a barber’s chair in early 2007 and bought a licence no one else wanted.
Serepisos is the best owner in the A-League, but now his $10 million investment is under threat. The A-League operates under the umbrella of the Asian Football Confederation, and AFC boss Mohamed Bin Hammam has never liked having a team from another confederation in his midst. For the past 18 months, he’s been white-anting the Phoenix, and now he’s finally made his move. Sooner or later, this had to come to a head.The paper also points out that the competing World Cup bids of Australia and Qatar for 2022 could be at play here, in terms of the considerable pressure on the Australian federation to make nice with the AFC. Australia will need the support of their confederation for their bid; and many point out that a competing World Cup bid is, coincidentally or not, from Bin Hammam’s Qatar. But the fact remains that there is a legitimate issue to resolve with Wellington the only club in the world to play in the top flight of a confederation their own country is not part of.
The FFA and Wellington ought to be able to find a work-around for this, but it may require the involvement of FIFA to solve a dispute between confederations, meaning the politics will only get an awful lot messier.
http://tinyurl.com/47ghx7p
Bin Hammam's Blog shows that he is a 'HYPOCRITE'
FOOTBALL FOR ALL, ALL FOR FOOTBALL
To make the declaration “it’s me or no one” is a selfish, false and incorrect way of thinking.
FOOTBALL EMBRACES ALL RACES, CULTURES AND RELIGIONS; it celebrates our differences and yet it allows us to possess a commonality through sport that might not otherwise exist. That is the great power of this game we all love.
While other sports have mass appeal, none provoke the passion or possess the positive power of football and FIFA, throughout the 107 years of its existence, has played a leading role in cultivating and nurturing that depth of feeling around the world.
We have seen throughout the game’s history – and especially through the work done by visionaries such as FIFA Presidents Jules Rimet and Joao Havelange – that our sport transcends all barriers. It brings together warring nations; it promotes peace and encourages tolerance.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT FOOTBALL BELONGS TO US ALL.
OUR SPORT IS NOT THE SOLE DOMAIN OF ANY RACE, COLOUR OR CREED, ON OR OFF THE PITCH. No one person is so fundamentally important to the future of our game that its very future depends on their involvement.
TO SUGGEST OTHERWISE IS TO SEEK TO DISENFRANCHISE the countless millions who take pride and pleasure from our great sport. We are all merely guardians of the sport and it is in all our interests to work together for the good of the game.
FIFA has been leading the way for more than a century; it has endured and prospered, thrived and developed since its founding in 1904.
None of us are bigger than football and we should, instead, act as its humble servants, safeguarding its future for the generations to come.
To do otherwise would be a dereliction of our duties.
ENDS
Mohamed Bin Hammam sought to do just that..."DISENFRANCHISE" "DISBAND" my little NATION AOTEAROA aka NEW ZEALAND's ONE and ONLY PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL CLUB, THE WELLINGTON PHOENIX FOOTBALL CLUB.
The timely intervention of FIFA, President Sepp Blatter certainly put paid to the DEMANDS OF THE AFC'S PRESIDENT, MOHAMED BIN HAMMAM.
Courtesy of The Wellington Phoenix FC WIKIPAEDIA ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
"Despite the backing of FIFA, AFC President Mohammed Bin Hammam has stated that due to AFC criteria the Wellington team must move to Australia or disband by 2011. However in an interview aired on SBS on 21 December 2008 FIFA President Sepp Blatter stated unequivocally that "It is not the matter of the Confederation, it is the matter of the FIFA Executive Committee... If Wellington will go on play on in Australian League, then as long as Australian league wants to have them and Wellington wants to stay (and) Both association in this case, New Zealand Soccer and Australian Football are happy with that then we will give them the blessing. The Confederation can not interfere with that."
On 20 April 2010, the FFA granted the Phoenix a 5-year licence extension, keeping it in the competition until at least the conclusion of the 2015-16 season".
MOHAMED BIN HAMMAM is a FAKE PERSON, JUST LIKE THE FAKE CLOUDS THAT QATAR WISH TO USE FOR THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 TO BE HELD IN HIS 'SANDPIT'....HOWEVER, I AM A FAIR-MINDED PERSON...NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL FEDERATION'S CHAIRMAN, FRANK VAN HATTUM IS A BIGOTED BULLY...FOR "THREATENING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST UNDER 10 YEAR OLD CHILDREN FROM TARANAKI SCHOOLS WHO JUST WANT TO PLAY SOCCER.
BY THE WAY FRANK, AOTEAROA aka NEW ZEALAND is an INTEGRATED MULTI-CULTURAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, NOT JUST PAKEHA KIDS PLAY SOCCER/FOOTBALL ...YOUR IMAGE CHOICE AT THE TOP OF YOUR CHAIRMAN'S REPORT...WHETHER YOU DENY IT OR NOT, CLEARLY INDICATES THAT YOU ARE A BIGOT...WE HAVE SOME LOVELY AU NATURAL TANNED CHILDREN WHO PLAY SOCCER AS WELL...IN AOTEAROA!
http://tinyurl.com/3nxp289 Courtesy of TARANAKI DAILY NEWS ONLINE...I have commented within this article.
http://tinyurl.com/3rb57po Courtesy of Stuff.co.nz
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