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SOCCER The Fight For FIFA He may not preside over any specific territory, but make no mistake: Sepp Blatter, the current head of FIFA, global football's governing body, has vast influence over his organization and an iron grip on international football. For almost four years, Blatter has deployed his lieutenants and outwitted his opponents to keep his place at the head of football's premier table. But in the past few weeks, he has appeared to be losing control over the house of FIFA. Soccer may be the beautiful game, but the body that governs it is riven with...
Person of the Week OFFSIDE Dicey finances, hints of bribery, a financial collapse?FIFA president Sepp Blatter might have done well at Enron. Though he says all's well with football's ruling body, many in the sport see the launch of an internal investigation into FIFA's finances as tantamount to a yellow card for Blatter...
...that decides the hosts of soccer's World Cup. Germany, whose bid to host the 2006 event was fronted by the supermodel alongside tennis ace Boris Becker and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, on Thursday knocked out South Africa's, championed by its legendary former president, by one vote. Although Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's world governing body, FIFA, had backed South Africa's bid on the grounds that it was time to give the African continent a first opportunity to host the world's biggest sporting event, Mandela's men reckoned without the cunning of Franz Beckenbauer, legendary German playmaker...
Beyond Colombia, the death cast a further pall on the World Cup, which had been receiving a modest but heartening welcome in the U.S. A moment of silence preceded the Germany-Belgium game in Chicago. Said Sepp Blatter, head of soccer's governing body: "If something happens by accident, you can say it was the will of God. But when people deliberately shoot and kill somebody because he made a mistake in the game, something is wrong...
John Munger as the Duke was the symbol of the conflict. His lines are grandiloquent -- flatulent as a bursting pig's blatter, but grandiloquent. Munger proclaims them with full voice, but he is physically too small for the part. There is something wonderfully absurd about his talk of war and glory. If he is meant to be funny, the audience should be given some hint of it before the whole affair becomes so ridiculous that laughter is the only...