Although there are several legal sports betting outfits in a handful of Asian cities including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the attractiveness of illegal online bookmaking outfits to individuals is reportedly due to the latter's offer of better prices, odds, wider variety of bet types and credit.
The staircase showed in the video would purportedly lead fans from the stadium to the metro stop nearby, and appears to be needing immediate reinforcement to avoid a catastrophe. The footage, which was taken and uploaded shortly after Argentina trampled Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday, showed how the staircase rocks evidently under the stress and the weight of thousands of football fans ascending simultaneously, Yahoo Sports said.
The program is said to be part of the world soccer organization's push to discourage drug use in the tournament. The players would still be tested at any time during the competition to ensure that they have not cheated or skirted FIFA Anti-doping Regulations.
The Guardian said that although the first few days of the tournament had showcased the talent of some of the top football players all over the world, it also showed how referees in the World Cup would require more experience in officiating international matches.
The video shows Brazilian defender Dani Alves feigning injury from a supposed kick from head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. Buzzfeed obtained a GIF image of the actual act that showed Alves dropping and clutching his left knee following Scolari's sideway kick.
Set up as a not-for-profit association in Switzerland, FIFA does not pay any taxes from revenues it gains from every World Cup tournament, the Forbes report wrote. It has also been observed that the organization has also managed to wrangled itself from laws in Brazil that would have required the organization to pay tax money.
Chrysovalantis Vasilakis of the University of Warwick has reportedly found in a study of the increased globalization of soccer that by relaxing the rules on player migration endows significant benefits to those who have decided to move and for those who chose to stay.
Even if authorities have said that the stadium could be put to use for local games after the World Cup, football matches in Manaus could attract a thousand people at most, which would not make it an economical decision to host a local match there, the Guardian said.
For the others who are not fortunate to secure tickets to see their favorite teams at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, they are willing to break a few laws, risk getting jailed, and even get broke, all for the sake of the tournament, Hindustan Times said.
The statement released by Franz Beckenbauer's agent revealed that the German football legend will be answering all allegations against him regarding Qatar winning the 2022 World Cup hosting rights by June 27.
The 68 year-old, who is a legend for winning the World Cup both as a player and as a football manager, said that he will not feel welcome in the host country after being imposed of the suspension over his supposed refusal to speak with investigators, NDTV Sports said.
FIFA said that the use of the technology, dubbed GoalControl, was to properly counted wasted goals at previous World Cups, of which one of them was the famous goal made by Frank Lampard for England against Germany in 2010.
According to FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, the global soccer body needs to emulate the National Basketball Association in its implementation of measures to effectively stamp or at least curb racism and discrimination in football.
Before German football icon Franz Beckenbauer was imposed by FIFA a provisional ban for not cooperating with officials regarding the probe on Qatar's winning bid for hosting the 2022 World Cup, Der Kaiser clarified to Daily Mail's Sportsmail that it was all a misunderstanding.
FIFA issued in a statement that it has banned executive committee member and German legend Franz Beckenbauer from football activities for 90 days for not cooperating in the probe on Qatar's winning bid for the 2022 World Cup.
John Oliver's June 8 "Last Week Tonight" rant on HBO reveals who are the entities behind FIFA's alleged pressure of Brazil to relax some of its laws in time for the 2014 World Cup, Politifact.com reported.
An anonymous pirate site has received a letter of demand from FIFA, detailing the global soccer body's proactive measures to stamp out illegal streaming of World Cup matches, Torrentleak reported.
According to Mirror UK, spectators at all 12 World Cup stadiums can only purchase up to three servings of beer amid an 11 year-old law in Brazil banning alcohol in stadiums.
A report by the National Journal questions why a global organization that prides itself from being socially-diverse like FIFA hand out hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup events to countries who have legally and culturally oppose homosexuality.
