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Thursday, February 5, 2009
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| Is Olympic Football About to Die? Posted: 05 Feb 2009 06:40 AM PST
The current Olympic rule - players must be Under 23, but with three over-age exceptions - caused absolute mayhem last August, with players like Rafinha and Leo Messi getting into long long arguments with their clubs about whether they should be allowed to go and play or not. It wasn’t pretty. And now FIFA (an organization that clearly has no love for Olympic football) has proposed (and UEFA has approved) two more nails in the Olympic football coffin: 1. No more overage players (that would have meant no Ronaldinho at the 2008 Olymics, for example) and So basically the Olympics would become an Under-20 football tournament.
With the U-20 World Cup being even years and the Olympics being odd years, that would mean three consecutive years with U-20 tournaments. A little bit of U-20 overkill maybe? I understand that it’s hard to come up with alternatives. I’d personally be in favour of placing no restrictions on players ages and letting the Olympics flourish as a football tournament. Even if clubs don’t have to release players, maybe national teams should just negotiate with clubs and put together the best team they possibly can. Then at least you’d get teams filled with players who definitely want to be there. But I don’t see FIFA - or the big clubs - letting that happen. And with Olympic soccer already struggling for respectability, the absence of almost any big name players will probably be the beginning of the end. Olympic football could soon go the way of Olympic baseball and be voted out of the games.        |
I think the answer might be yes. Partly because no one ever writes a blog post with a question in the title unless the answer might be yes, but mostly because | You are subscribed to email updates from World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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Sporting News Today: National Signing Day winners and losers
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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| Poll: Who Do You Want to Host World Cup 2018/2022? Posted: 03 Feb 2009 09:24 AM PST
And the 11 submitted bids, in alphabetical order are [drumroll please....] Australia An expected bid from Egypt appears to have been lost in the post.
My guess is that we’ll see England and Australia emerge as hosts, and beer companies everywhere will celebrate. England’s bid is strengthened by Sepp Blatter not being too fond of joint bids (bad news for BelNeth and Sportugal), while Australia seems to be the most realistic bid from Asia (given that Japan & South Korea co-hosted the last but one World Cup, greedy). Likewise, the USA hosted in ‘94 (not all that recent, but not all that long ago) and Mexico has already hosted two World Cups so might struggle to make a case for a third. All eleven bids will be getting this lovely letter (warning: pdf) from Sepp Blatter, and then the process proceeds on this timetable: Compliance with deadlines, ancillary documents, incorporated annexes… Who knew the world of football administration was so exciting? The deadline that really matters is December 2010, when the fate of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be decided. Just for kicks, let’s try a mock vote ourselves. No ancillary documents required. Vote for any two of the following, making sure not to choose two from the same confederation, and we’ll see who gets to host our fantasy World Cup 2018 and 2022…   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Yesterday (Feb 2nd) was the deadline for World Cup 2018 & 2022 hosting bids. So now we know who wants to have the big party at their house.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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