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[rolaholic]

I saw a new home jersey being sold on the side of the street...Red...with the three stripes down the side...but it had some weird white side panels...if that's the case...I won't be copping home jerseys...

Ah those freshly imported kits still in plastic packaging on the side of the road 

, were they something like this?

I just love that 3rd kit man 

 

 

[eiddyfouw]

I saw a new home jersey being sold on the side of the street...Red...with the three stripes down the side...but it had some weird white side panels...if that's the case...I won't be copping home jerseys...

Ah those freshly imported kits still in plastic packaging on the side of the road  , were they something like this?

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I just love that 3rd kit man   

that is EXACTLY what I saw. Man I ain't coppin that gobbage... smh

 

[rolaholic]

 

[rolaholic]

Guinea-Bissau's president says Africa remains behind the Fifa chief despite the corruption scandal surrounding the organisation

Voting against Fifa president Sepp Blatter in Friday's election would be "blasphemy", according to the Guinea-Bissau FA chief.

On Wednesday, 14 football figures were indicted over corruption allegations with seven Fifa executives arrested for bribery and racketeering charges by US authorities.

A separate investigation saw the Swiss government open criminal proceedings into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

The news prompted Uefa boss Michel Platini to call for Blatter to resign from his position, but one of Africa's football association presidents Nascimento Lopes believes the Swiss is being unfairly targeted.

"I'm a Christian and this is blasphemy," he told Insideworldfootball.

"It's a state conspiracy. People are always trying to knock Blatter. Africa will vote for Mr Blatter and Blatter will win and I will follow that.

"I agree at some point there has to be change but let Blatter finish his mandate and see what he does. It's not all about the major European football countries.

"If you point three fingers at someone, there's is always one you point at yourself. Tomorrow we are going to vote for Blatter. How do we know anyone else would be any better?"

US federal authorities have presented a 47-point indictment against current and past Fifa officials, which includes claims South Africa won the bidding for World Cup 2010 after millions of pounds exchanged hands.

However, Lopes countered: "Let America show us the proof. Let the investigation bring the result. People say Blatter must have known about this but do I know other people's secrets? "

 

 

[d3si]

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says he expects to make two or three signings during the summer but they will be squad players rather than big-name stars.

Mourinho insists he is happy with his Premier League-winning squad and claims his priority will be to hang on to his current set of players rather than spending heavily during the transfer window.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

sith blatter's own words addressing the fifa congress...





Reminds me of episode III when Palpatine made his declaration that the republic was turning into an empire...

 

[eiddyfouw]

Di Marzio: "Khedira passed medical at Juventus" Tuttosport: He will sign a 4-year €4m deal today

 

[Thierry Henry]

Unai Emery said he was very happy at Sevilla & fully intends to lead the team in it's first CL campaign in 6 years. Rumored Barca RB target Aleix Vidal also said he hopes Emery stays too.

Emery had some really critical comments on Deulofeu -

He has incredible qualities but lacks others. Put him out there, one on one and ... pfff... But make him play football with teammates, on a big pitch, and it’s hard. He doesn’t have the maturity or capacity for sacrifice yet.

I told him: 'There are players here who aspire to a contract like yours, men with less talent but more hunger: Iborra, Carriço, Vitolo. They know what it costs. You haven’t experienced that. When you do, you’ll grow. I hope you get that. If not here, somewhere else.

Ol' privileged ah boi, I'll gladly take your place Gerry D.

 

[flyeed]

Bruh when dude came out during the celebration and was rocking sweatpants with his jersey looking like a fan I felt embarrassed for him

 

[flyeed]

What realistic target would Chelsea have even wanted if they were trying to make a splash this summer?

 

[Kimchi Papi]

^ Depending on if Cech stays or goes, another keeper. They also need young defenders. Scum bag terry ain't going to last forever. Will they get another striker too since Drogba left? I like Remy so he should be a solid #2 (if not a starter had it not been for Costa being there).

Mundo Deportivo is reporting Jose warned his players to stay out of the brothels during their trip to Bangkok.

http://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbo...adores-nada-de-prostibulos.html?autoplay=true

 

[rck3sactown]

BREAKING: Sunil Gulati, US Soccer pres, says USA will vote for Prince Ali in #FIFA election. Canada Soccer Assoc. also supporting Prince Ali
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

Gulati also told me that he knows going against Blatter may cost US in chase for WC bid in future."Better governance is more important."
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

Gulati to @nytimes: "If being on right side of issues costs us hosting a WC, that would be unfortunate but we are prepared to deal w that.”
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

Here's full @nytimes story on US Soccer voting against Blatter, even if it hurts chances at World Cup bid in future: http://t.co/3214xvuwOM
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

It's a bold decision from Gulati and US Soccer. Anti-American sentiment in int'l sport is strong and a real hindrance. Gulati doesn't care.
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

Gulati: "Will it affect people’s views of me? It will affect some. That goes with being a US nat'l. And that is something I’m very proud of"
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

I would imagine there are some mixed opinions among US Soccer fans; no one likes corruption, but most probably want a WC, too. Head v. heart
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

When I asked Gulati about Ali being a big underdog, he said: "Being on wrong side of an election is not necessarily being on wrong side."
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

For those who say US had no choice and could never vote for Blatter, not totally true; they could abstain. Going against Sepp is bolder.
— Sam Borden (@SamBorden) May 28, 2015

 

[DeadsetAce]

^

 

[sonoftony]

Man U 3rd kit is copped!!

 

[noskey]

I'm about one more anti-Blatter statement by Sunil from buying a US kit with his name on it. A true American hero

 

[mastamind89]

The FBI may have struck at Fifa but soccer in the US has been tarnished
Wednesday’s arrests raise questions about some figures who are deeply involved in the soccer business in the United States
Chuck Blazer
Chuck Blazer, the former general secretary of Concacaf, is said to have turned informant on Fifa. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images
Simon Evans
Wednesday 27 May 2015 16.09 EDT Last modified on Thursday 28 May 2015 10.37 EDT
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So, in the most extraordinary fashion, the United States has finally found itself at the epicenter of the soccer world.

The star of one of the biggest days in American soccer history was not, however, a talented young Californian striker or a brave goalkeeper from New Jersey, but US attorney general Lorretta Lynch and her team from the Department of Justice and the FBI.

The department indicted 14 people on charges which include money laundering, wire fraud and racketeering in a remarkable 161 page document which details a series of kickbacks and bribes. Seven of those 14, gathered in Zurich for this week’s Fifa congress, were arrested by Swiss law enforcement in a dawn raid and could face extradition to the United States.

“They were expected to uphold the rules that keep soccer honest and to protect the integrity of the game, instead they corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and to enrich themselves,” said Lynch in a punchy address.

FBI v Fifa. Finally, somebody has had the determination and the means to take on the corruption in football and hold them to account, and it turns out to be a government department in a country that has long kept its distance from the global game.


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But for American soccer this is not quite as simple as fighters for justice and truth taking on those who steal money from kids who just want to play ball.

The two decades of corruption outlined by the Grand Jury document, includes plenty of cases that raise questions about people who have long been involved in the soccer business in the United States and surrounding region.

The two domestic bodies most directly impacted by the developments are the North American Soccer League and the United States Soccer Federation.

For the NASL, the second division league in the US club system, the link is direct. The indicted Aaron Davidson, an American citizen, who along with his company Traffic Sports, features heavily in the accounts of bribes and kick-backs, was the driving force behind the creation of the league in 2009.

It was Davidson who pushed hard for a split in the United Soccer Leagues, which was then the second tier of club competition. It was Traffic who ran the commercial activities of the nascent league. Traffic, with US headquarters in Miami but with Brazilian owners, also took on direct ownership of several teams in the new NASL. Although they now only own the Carolina Railhawks, it was their money that kept teams such as the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, the Minnesota Stars and Atlanta Silverbacks alive.

Now that Davidson and Traffic have been accused of paying bribes, the NASL have acted. “In light of the ongoing investigation announced by the US Department of Justice on Wednesday, the North American Soccer League’s Board of Governors has suspended Chairperson Aaron Davidson, along with all business activities between the league and Traffic Sports, effective immediately. Commissioner Bill Peterson will serve as acting Chairperson,” the league said in a statement.

With Traffic’s Brazilian parent company in deep trouble as a result of Wednesday’s revelations, the NASL could well lose the support of an organisation which has stood behind it through its growing pains. For some in the league who tired of Davidson’s antagonistic approach and grandiose plans, the loss of Traffic may not be entirely unwelcome however.

Most of the allegations revealed on Wednesday surround Traffic’s relationship with Concacaf – the regional governing body for the sport, whose territory includes the United States, Canada and Mexico along with Central America and the Caribbean.

US Soccer is part of Concacaf and indeed it was another American, Chuck Blazer, who was the body’s general secretary throughout the years in which disgraced Trinidadian Jack Warner ruled the region. In a reminder that Americans in Fifa are by no means exclusively on the side of the fighters for truth, the Justice Department says that Blazer has pleaded guilty to a lengthy series of corruption charges, while reports have suggested the New Yorker cooperated with the FBI investigation.

Concacaf’s current president, Jeffrey Webb, is a Cayman Islands banker, educated in Florida and with at least one residence in Georgia. Webb has made much of reform and transparency. But that talk risks looking rather hollow in the wake of allegations he took a series of bribes, and he was among those arrested in Zurich. The body now risks losing its second straight president to a corruption scandal. It is hardly the kind of organisation that US Soccer, trying to grow the sport in the United States, would ideally want to belong to.

Geography and history have left the United States to work in a structure which has an in-built majority from Caribbean federations, several of which have been implicated in scandals. It has meant, for US Soccer president Sunil Gulati, trying to advance his federation’s interests in a region that has long been riddled with intrigue and dubious dealings.

The advantage of being in Concacaf for the US is a relatively easy qualification passage to the World Cup but the downside includes having to work within a business environment dominated by the likes of Traffic and Davidson and a political structure ruled by the likes of Webb and his Jamaican side-kick ‘Captain’ Horace Burrell.

And there is the danger of the fallout from this latest affair impacting on the soccer business in North America. According to Lynch, $110m of planned bribes were connected to deals around next year’s planned Copa America centenary tournament, which is to bring together North and South American nations in a single tournament for the first time. Around $40m of those bribes had already been paid, said the DOJ indictment. This for a tournament which is to be held at stadiums across the United States with major network television coverage and mainstream sponsors.

Major American companies, such as Sprint, have already signed up to Concacaf’s Gold Cup this summer, with Delta Airlines the most recent to join before the latest scandal broke – they surely didn’t expect the name of Concacaf, which they have attached themselves to, to be dragged through the mud once again.

Gulati has long, perhaps understandably, practiced ‘realpolitik’ in both Concacaf and Fifa but with both organisations now teetering from the latest blows, there no longer appears much to gain from such an approach.

The US Soccer chief might be well advised to take some inspiration from Loretta Lynch and engage in some forthright, straight-talking. He might even find himself on that rarest of places to find in the soccer world – the moral high ground.

 

[mastamind89]

@samuelJayC Reports: Sociedad agents in London to negotiate deal for Joel Campbell whilst Wenger has told Jenkinson he will be loaned out again.
Dybala set to complete move to @juventusfc today. Signs 5-year deal, £28.5m fee.
Arsenal's two new signings from @rclensofficiel, Fortune (16) & Reine-Adelaide (17). Total fee £2.8m.

 

[SamKQboro]

 

[mastamind89]

My dude is ready to wild out with them cuts in his brow

 

[dragicon]

Would I be banned if I admit that I own that cd?

 

[flyeed]

^No

You'd get repped if you posted a pic with a tag

 

[PRIME]

Would I be banned if I admit that I own that cd?

^No

You'd get repped if you posted a pic with a tag

Word. I grew up on that tape. Top 5 albums imo. Throwback after throwback of jams.

 

[SamKQboro]

One of my first cd's

 

[jcs11702]

It would take a miracle for Blatter to lose tomorrow. He has the entire African continent supporting him. After he wins, he will blacklist England and the U.S. from hosting any World Cups ( or any major tourney for that matter).

 

[dragicon]

^No

You'd get repped if you posted a pic with a tag

It's still at my parents house.. Ha. Next time I'm back there I will tag it!