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| FIFA president Sepp Blatter,
responding to criticism of the decision to reject goal line
technology, said he wanted soccer to be played under the same
rules at all levels and retain its human element.
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| FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the introduction of goal-line technology was rejected because it was too costly and would slow down games. The FIFA-dominated International Football Association Board rejected plans to pursue the use of technology at its annual meeting last weekend. Blatter says that "the application of modern technologies can be very costly and therefore not applicable on a... |
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| UNICEF has appointed Barcelona forward Lionel Messi a global Goodwill Ambassador. The 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year received the honor in a ceremony in Barcelona. A UNICEF statement said that Messi's "determination to use his fame to help the world's most vulnerable children" led to his being chosen for the role. |
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| The Football for Hope movement has received the award for Philanthropy and Cooperation through Sports at the Global Sports Forum. Football for Hope is a social development project led by FIFA and streetfootballworld which has carried out a range of initiatives in areas such as education, children's rights and anti-discrimination since 2005. |
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| The Swiss parliament has upheld FIFA and UEFA's tax-free status in Switzerland. The National Council on Tuesday rejected a proposal to force the football bodies to pay taxes on profits from events like the World Cup, the European Championship and the Champions League. The vote was 116-58, with 10 abstentions. |
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| At FIFA headquarters, they should carve this motto above the door: Why annoy some people some of the time when you can infuriate just about everyone all of the time? In ruling out further experiments on the use of technology to determine whether a goal has been scored, the guardians of soccer have made a bad mistake. |
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| A U.N. human rights investigator said Monday that numerous people have complained to her of being forced from their homes or priced out of the housing market as a result of large events such as the World Cup. Raquel Rolnik, an independent investigator appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council, criticized soccer's (football's) world governing body, FIFA, for failing to ensure that cities... |
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| Over at FIFA headquarters, they should carve this motto above the door: Why annoy some people some of the time when you can infuriate just about everyone all of the time. In ruling out further experiments on the use of technology to determine whether a goal has been scored, the guardians of football have made a bad mistake. |
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FIFA has been under increasing pressure to use some form of technology to eliminate mistakes that are regularly highlighted by television replays from numerous angles.
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FIFA has been under increasing pressure to use some form of technology to eliminate mistakes that are regularly highlighted by television replays from numerous angles.
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