Новости за 22.09.2015

September 22 – FIFA reports that construction at it's FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich is running according to plan and that the museum will open in the first quarter of 2016.

By Mark Baber
September 22 - Singaporean Rajendran R Kurusamy (pictured), the mastermind behind a conspiracy to fix a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games football match between Timor Leste and Malaysia, was sentenced to four years' jail in Singapore on Monday.

It was never intended to end up like this. Jerome Valcke always expected to step down after eight years as FIFA's number two once his boss, Sepp Blatter, announced he was calling it a day next February.

By Jaroslaw Adamowski
September 22 - Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has launched an investigation to determine whether Gheorghe Ciuhandu, the former mayor of Timisoara, and two other local officials illegally funded local football club Politehnica Timisoara, which was privately-owned, between 2008 and 2011.

By Andrew Warshaw
September 22 - FIFA's ethics investigators have tabled a request to this week's executive committee meeting calling for greater powers to explain precise reasons for punishing officials in order to offset constant media speculation and speed up the reform process.

By Andrew Warshaw
September 22 - The net appears to be finally closing in on former FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF supremo Jack Warner after extradition proceedings to the United States on corruption charges were approved by Trinidad's attorney general.

"If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has." John Maynard Keynes

Like him or loathe him - and he splits opinion as surely as Marmite - John Maynard Keynes was one of history's greatest minds. His writing has formed the basis of the modern economic system. (Although what he taught has been treated as a piecemeal buffet from which to pick and choose according to political expediency, rather than a doctrine to be adhered to wholesale. This fact has inevitably skewed the application... Читать дальше...

By Samindra Kunti
September 22 – French organisers of the Euro2016 tournament have said that it is their intention that the tournament will galvanise more of the French youth into playing football and that through improved facilities the tournament will leave a sustainable legacy. To that end they have launched a number of social programmes.