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via FIFA Football fans love little more than witnessing an exciting new talent announcing his arrival to the world. Over the past year, the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Neymar, Mario Gotze and Phil Jones have made the leap into stardom, and we now wait to discover who will follow in their footsteps during 2012. Here, FIFA.com looks at a few of the ...

Shouts out to the cats over at adidas... someone wasnt asleep at the wheel on this one... this was up almost immediately after the win!! Winning the FIFA World Player is truly a great honour. The best part of receiving great awards, is sharing them with you. I am convinced the greatness of this sport, the most beautiful game of all, is ...

from fcbarcelona.com "At the age of 24, Leo Messi equals the record set by the Frenchman Michel Platini after winning three consecutive Ballon d’Or titles (2009, 2010 and 2011). Ronaldo handed the Argentinean the FIFA Ballon d’Or this afternoon in Zurich. Messi won the title thanks to votes placed by captains and managers of all the national ...

image source 1 : 2 : 3 Fifa Ballon D’or ceremony takes place on Monday evening and will reward the player who is deemed to have had the best year in world football from a shortlist of three star performers. Barcelona teammates Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez are finalists for the FIFA player of the year award along with Real Madrid winger ...

via Yahoo ZURICH (AP)—Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner peddled “inaccuracies and falsehoods” when he claimed last month that he got World Cup television rights for $1 in exchange for supporting Sepp Blatter’s presidential campaigns, soccer’s governing body said Friday. FIFA confirmed Warner’s claim that he received Caribbean ...

via FIFA The FIFA Emergency Committee decided yesterday 5 January 2012 to consider the requirements established by the FIFA Executive Committee on 16 December 2011 as fulfilled by the Swiss Football Association (SFV) by its decision from 30 December 2011, and that the SFV will consequently not be suspended in relation to the FIFA Executive ...

via SI MUNICH (Reuters) -- Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness wants Sepp Blatter to be deposed if the FIFA president fails to clean up soccer's governing body in the next year. "Blatter must clearly explain in the next 12 months how he wants to dry out this swamp, and if he doesn't do that, one must create possibilities to depose him," Hoeness ...

via Guardian Jack Warner, the former Fifa vice-president, has claimed that he acquired the World Cup television rights for Trinidad & Tobago for as little as $1 in 1998 after helping Sepp Blatter get elected as president of football's world governing body, according to reports. Warner, who resigned from Fifa in June when he was being ...