Showing posts with label Soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soccer. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

France football manager Blanc denies 'race quota'

BORDEAUX (AFP) – France manager Laurent Blanc has denied any knowledge of a controversial alleged proposal by the French Football Federation (FFF) to limit the number of black and arab players by introducing discriminatory quotas.

Reports that French football chiefs, including Blanc, had discussed and approved a ceiling on non-whites emerged Thursday via Mediapart.

The influential website claimed: "For the top brass in French football, the issue is settled: there are too many blacks, too many Arabs and not enough white players in French football.

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Soccer Team signs 1 year old to a Professional Contract

See this is exactly the reason that soccer refuses to catch on in the US, here we like sports that 1 year olds can't master.

Well it turns out the contract and the press conference were just a big publicity stunt held by the Dutch club VVV-Venlo. The contract is officially being classified as a "symbolic" one.

Well who is this 1 year old anyway? His name is Baerke van der Meij and apparently he has a hit youtube video where he is kicking balls into his toy chest.






Monday, February 14, 2011

Judge bends Beckham's lawsuit out of Court

David Beckham is responding for the first time, exclusively to RadarOnline.com, to a federal judge’s decision to toss his massive $25 million lawsuit suit against In Touch over claims he slept with prostitute.