Football Isn't Football Anymore

Football has become the most body recently. It isn’t like back in those days that it was a world class source of entertainment. I must say the Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, being the international governing body of association football is losing it bench mark.

  

African Governments continue to pump millions into football without any meaningful returns. But when there is brazen corruption by football Associations and its officials in Africa and the government tries to initiate investigations especially in Ghana,

Noo, No way, we won’t allow this to happen to our beautiful game of the nation. Football is our passion and only joy that united us. I swear we will go to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association being the international governing body of association football (soccer) FIFA…… This is Interference and FIFA will ban us. FIFA is autonomous and football is autonomous.

And now that there is suspicion hanging around and the autonomus FIFA officials are arrested for corruption, then where will be our term of reference now?  I can say that indeed football Isn't Football Anymore, rather it has become world market business center for the exchange of goods and services with ‘assets and liquidity’  

“They are accused of racketeering, fraud and money laundering, including charges of receiving bribes to influence the outcome of bids to stage football tournaments, such as the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2016 Copa America in the US.”

When police raided the luxury Baur au Lac hotel, overlooking Lake Zurich early on Wednesday, it was not the curtain-raiser that Fifa's Sepp Blatter had in mind for his likely re-election as president of football's world governing body in two days' time.

Many view Friday's election as more of a ceremonial coronation than a democratic ballot, but the dramatic arrest of Fifa officials in their hotel rooms will cast a dark cloud over proceedings.

Suspicion has hung about Fifa for years, and although Mr Blatter is not thought to be implicated following the arrests of seven top Fifa officials on Wednesday, one has to wonder - why is he so determined to carry on in the top job? When the governing body of association football is mired in crisis over a growing corruption scandal.

  

So now that the autonomous has been stripped naked, now that FIFA officials can be arrested and charged. Now that our gods have been exposed, who do we pray to?

Football "Mafia" Must Stop. Stealing from the beautiful game must stop. Football Corruption Must stopped.

WOMEN'S FOOTBALL IS "LIMPING BEHIND"SAYS FIFA BOSS SEPP BLATTER

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Fifa boss Sepp Blatter says women's football is "limping behind" the men's game in both profile and sponsorship. Blatter also thinks football is too "macho" and wants governing bodies around the world to employ more females in positions of influence.

History says in the year 2004, Sepp Blatter, was heavily criticised for suggesting female footballers play in "tighter shorts" to improve the game's popularity. But he says he feels like "a little bit of a godfather" to women's football.

Sepp Blatter who is seeking a fifth term as president of world football's governing body said "Women's football is still limping behind a little bit;" he said "To get new partners for women's football is difficult because the focus is on men's football."

In an interview with BBC Global News, Blatter also said:

• women's football is not yet played "the way he would like it to be played", citing a lack of organised leagues in some countries
• female access to football stadia remains a "problem" in parts of the world, like Saudi Arabia and Iran, because of cultural issues
• he wants to change the Fifa statutes to make it easier for women to occupy positions of power around the globe

The number of women on the committee is currently one, after Burundi's Lydia Nsekera became the first - and so far only - female elected onto it in 2013. Lydia Nsekera is also a member of the International Olympic Committee

Moya Dodd, Asian Football Federation vice-president, and Sonia Bien-Aime, president of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association, are also on the executive committee but as co-opted members. Last month, Bien-Aime also became the first female elected onto the executive committee of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football.

In response, Karen Espelund, the only female member of Uefa's executive committee, said that women can "add value" to football and football's appeal. "Football is by far the biggest sport in the world and the professional men's football is an extremely strong position," said the Norwegian. "Girls and women add value to the total product and I find it a little bit strange that not more commercial people see that possibility."

Blatter also confirmed he will attend this summer's Women's World Cup  in Canada "whatever the result" of the presidential election. Starting next month on Saturday 6^th June with the first match Can vs CHN at commonwealth Stadium and consisting of 24 teams and 52 matches, it will be the biggest women's football tournament in history.

Blatter said it was a big opportunity to showcase the women's game and said it was "up to the ladies" to put on a great event. "There will be over 20 cameras in each stadium, there will be goal-line technology and there will be a lot of the public there," he added.  

Sepp Blatter,FIFA president  said, this time, he wants more action on women's game.