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Gold Cup 2025

El Tri’s home away from home

Mexico 2-0 Suriname:

June 18 – The Mexican national team is perhaps the only country in world football that plays home matches in two countries. The Azteca Stadium in Mexico City is, of course, their spiritual home; however, in Los Angeles – where they roared to victory over the Dominican Republic – and tonight in the heart of Texas at AT&T Stadium in Arlington versus Suriname, the team is welcomed by partisan support and rapturous anticipation.

Costa Rica squeeze past Dominican Republic into next round

Marsch and CSA under investigation for breaking suspension rules and abusing officials

Rampaging Canada tear Honduras apart

Goal-less and soul-less as Curacao and El Salvador share points

Qatari trio share the legacy and learnings of the 2022 World Cup on duty at the Gold Cup

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Romania’s richest jailbird stays locked up leaving his Liga1 club strapped for cash

Ioan Niculae

By Jaroslaw Adamowski
September 29 – The financial woes of Romanian top tier club Astra Giurgiu are set to continue as an application for an early release filed by its jailed owner, Romanian businessman Ioan Niculae (pictured), was recently rejected by a local court. Niculae is currently serving a sentence of 914 days, and, under Romanian law, to be granted an early release, he must serve at least 304 days.

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Chung calls for emergency body to run FIFA, but to keep it in the family

Chung Mong-joon

By Andrew Warshaw
September 29 – In a clear attempt not to be undone in terms of snatching the moral high ground, FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon has launched a scathing attack on the credibility of the organisation declaring it is now in “total meltdown” after the recent allegations concerning Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini.

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Inside Editorial: The Thinker

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Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’, also displayed in this week’s cartoon (or, at least a variation of it), best qualifies the goings-on in FIFA, where the top floor stays lit up, even late at night these days.

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VW crisis will not pollute Wolfsburg, says Allofs

Klaus Allofs

September 29 – The Volkswagen emissions scandal will not affect the status of Wolfsburg, the Bundesliga club owned by the embattled car manufacturer, according to sporting director Klaus Allofs.

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Mourinho moans that Costa ‘witch-hunt’ kills Chelsea’s title challenges

Diego Costa

September 29 – Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, battling against his team’s shaky start to defending their Premier League title, has complained about a “witch-hunt” by the footballing authorities against Diego Costa.

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Platini writes to UEFA feds saying FIFA cash was for FIFA work

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By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – Just as Sepp Blatter refused to resign in the wake of the criminal proceedings opened against him, so his would-be successor Michel Platini sought to keep alive his election hopes and reputation by protesting his innocence to UEFA’s entire membership over receiving a suspected SFr2 million unlawful payment from his one-time mentor.

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Blatter vows to stay on telling FIFA staff he has done nothing illegal

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By Andrew Warshaw
September 29 – A bullish Sepp Blatter has decided to dig in his heels and stand his ground despite the criminal investigation into his activities.

Andrew Warshaw: For whom the bell tolls

He tried every way he could, for months on end, to distance himself from the ignominy and disgrace that that has snared so many of his former colleagues.

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Prince Ali pushes on change agenda with Platini at point of his thrust

Prince Ali at Soccerex

By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin al-Hussein has been quick to seize on Michel Platini’s alleged implication in the ongoing corruption crisis by once again reiterating the need for a fresh start at world football’s governing body.

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Arsenal expands into Ethiopia with multi-level Dashen beer deal

Arsenal and Dashen

By Mark Baber
September 28 – Arsenal have announced a new partnership with the Ethiopian Dashen Brewery in a deal described by Dashen’s CEO as a win for Arsenal, for the brewery and for Ethiopia.

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France’s LFP renews host broadcast deal with HBS

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By Samindra Kunti
September 28 – France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has extended its partnership with production company HBS (Host Broadcast Services) for a further four years.

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Barca’s Neymar has $47m of assets frozen in Brazilian tax case

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By Paul Nicholson
September 28 – The struggle that Barcelona’s star players have with paying their taxes has continued with Neymar being the latest to fall foul of the authorities with a Brazilian judge freezing 188.8m reais ($47.6 million) of his assets in a tax evasion case.

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Platini’s SFr2m payment puts his FIFA ambitions in jeopardy

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By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – Michel Platini’s dreams of taking over at FIFA face being dealt a hammer blow as a result of the already-infamous 2 million Swiss franc payment he received for unexplained work undertaken on behalf of Sepp Blatter.

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Warner wins time as his lawyers head to US to discuss extradition terms

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By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – Disgraced former CONCACAF president Jack Warner has won more time in his bid to avoid being extradited to the United States on corruption charges.

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David Owen: Could Platini end up as the big loser of FIFA’s frenetic Friday?

Friday’s shenanigans at FIFA prompted a number of sporting sages to prophesy the demise of Sepp Blatter well before the February 26 Congress that is supposed to elect a new FIFA President. I wonder though if the big loser might not turn out to be Michel Platini.