BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter's reform of FIFA will continue on Friday when delegates at the 62nd FIFA Congress review a set of proposals aimed at modernizing the way world soccer's governing body is run. In an interview with Reuters this week, the 76-year-old Swiss, whose organization was battered by a series of scandals last year, said he was hugely optimistic that delegates would see how far matters had improved a year into his fourth term. "I am an optimist," Blatter, who was re-elected in June for what he says will be his final term, told Reuters ahead of the congress. ...
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Portugal league approves expansion to 18 clubs
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(LPFP) has approved the entry of two additional teams to widen the Premier
League to 18 clubs and its president said it would challenge the current TV
rights bargaining model in European courts.
