Word: fifa
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...days after the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) announced that the United States will open 12 stadia to a month-long, 52-match tournament which will determine soccer's world champion, the question arises: can America pull...
...official, Peter Vellappan, a Malaysian member of FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, used a press conference after the last game Friday to launch a broadside at ABC Sports for its soccer coverage--or lack thereof--a weird trend given that soccer on the West Coast has been pulling in crowds...
Subject to final approval by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), four of the world's top 16 soccer teams will play a round-robin tournament at the Stadium. It will be the first time the University has ever been the scene of an Olympic event...
Olympic officials said they chose the Stadium because it is one of the few U.S. facilities meeting 11 of FIFA's requirements. Soccer fields are about 22 yards wider than American football playing surfaces, and FIFA requires natural turf. Most American stadiums large enough for soccer have artificial surfaces or host baseball teams, thus disqualifying them for consideration as Olympic soccer sites...
Julio Abreu, general director of the financially shaky hotel and ticket consortium Mundiespaña, blamed the general recession. Ajusting his once Olympian ambitions, he says: "We will not go bankrupt." But despite reports of severe losses to operators of travel, merchandising and ticket sales abroad, FIFA is still bragging that its eventual gross-helped along by revenue from three special Spanish lotteries-will more than cover the Spanish government's $40 million outlay...