World cup debate:How Public Arogance made Blatter a visionary prophet.World cup 2018 will take place in Russia while Qatar will host World cup 2022. Dooms day. And the ranting engines started to roar like never before. FIFA is corrupted! (No shit!). Then the holier-Bigger-Better than though anthem...

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Saving football, this time for real. Part 1

Athletic Bilbao, punishing a good clubAthletic Bilbao, a club that depends almost entirely on breeding its own squad through the academy and regional grassroots academies is one of only three clubs in Spain that had never relegated from the first division, doesn’t spend beyond its means, and possibly...

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Happy for Ronaldo, and I support FC Barcelona.

Euro 2016 final, 25 minutes on, Ronaldo throws the captain’s armband on the turf, is down and ready to be subbed off! He goes off on the stretcher and on comes Quaresma.  Quaresma, a player over a decade ago was considered the h,o,p,e of the word hope for Portuguese football. When...

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Maradona, Messi and football legacy

Scene one: Copa America It is telling that as soon as Messi lost the Copa America final, the Maradona Vs Messi legacy discussion kicked off to demonstrate that Messi is no where near Maradona.  Our script of Maradona's legacy overlooks the fact that Maradona never even came close...

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FC Barcelona: When is it right to ask the tough questions to Sandro Rosell?

"Questions?" There is an investigation going on in Brazil as we all know already.  When you mention former CBF President Ricardo Teixeira, then add that Rosell is his friend who was responsible of organizing friendly matches for Brazil, fraud is a given conclusion for many. Yet, two things...

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