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...Peter fought his way up through local, regional and national tournaments, and finally to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where despite his quarterfinal loss, he attracted the attention of agents who began vying for his attention. Before long, the kid from Uyo was living in the United States and racking up an impressive record. In March, Peter earned $1.4 million when he beat Oleg Maskaev in Mexico City to claim the WBC heavyweight title. The fragmentation of the sport's governing bodies means such titles are rarely undisputed, but most rankings rate Peter as second only to Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko...
...good enough, reckons FIFA, world football's governing body. At its annual congress in Sydney on Friday, delegates backed proposals capping at five the number of foreign players top soccer clubs can field at the start of a game. Buoyed by the support - 155 voted in favor of the resolution, and only five against - FIFA plans to explore the idea further with the hope of imposing the limits by 2012. "There is a growing sporting and economic inequality" between clubs, said Sepp Blatter, FIFA's president, taking aim at wealthy European teams able to cherry pick from the world...
...bigger challenge for FIFA is that in their current form, the proposals are flat-out illegal, because they flout the European Union's rules permitting workers the freedom of movement among member states. FIFA's plan drew a "red card" from Vladimir Spidla, E.U. Employment Commissioner, ahead of the Sydney meeting...
...Responding to the vote in Sydney, meanwhile, the Premier League is unmoved. "We want to see the greatest possible number of England-qualified players coming through in the Premier League, but this has to be based on merit and quality," it said in a statement Friday. "And there is no doubting that foreign talent has aided the technical development of the English game." As for Chelsea, its amassing of foreign stars didn't help this month in the Champions League final. It was beaten by Manchester United. The number of foreigners in Manchester's starting lineup? Just five...
...known Sydney Pollack for almost a half-century. We met on a film in 1960. He was an actor; I was an actor. He and I became kindred spirits. Like any novice artists starting out, we decided that we knew everything that was wrong about the production. So that's how it started. We collaborated together [on seven films, including Out of Africa and The Way We Were] because I was always happy to be the actor to his director. I trusted...