We talk to the organisers whose every waking moment was consumed by the duty of hosting a successful tournament
Franz Beckenbauer has told Fifa he will answer the questions put to him as part of a corruption investigation by June 27 at the latest.
Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer has been banned from football for 90 days for not cooperating with an investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
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/ 25 January 2008
When Fredi Kanoute decided to play for Mali he did so with the kind of talk that would make Frantz Fanon and other black thinkers sit up and take note. ”Though I am French, born in France, and I grew up there, I always took my holidays in Mali. And inside me, something always said, ‘You are of Malian origin.’ I am not just French, I am also Malian.”
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/ 6 November 2007
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is working with the European Union on plans to reduce the number of overseas players dominating teams in leagues across Europe. Speaking to reporters in the Malaysian capital, where he is attending a regional award ceremony, Blatter said it was time for a change in Europe.
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/ 7 September 2007
German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer visited the construction site of Cape Town’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium on Friday and declared himself ”very, very impressed” with preparations. ”I am very, very impressed with the construction going on in Cape Town and it’s fantastic what the people in South Africa are doing in preparing themselves for the World Cup in 2010,” he said.