just shame on Uefa, a team with this track record and get away with it day after day
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Kahn and Lucio charged
Friday, 16 March 2007
UEFA has charged FC Bayern München goalkeeper Oliver Kahn and defender Lucio for improper conduct at the post-match doping control after their team's UEFA Champions League first knockout round second-leg encounter against Real Madrid CF in Munich last week.
22 March hearing
The two players were found to have breached basic rules of good conduct, and the case will be dealt with by the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body next Thursday, 22 March. Bayern won the match 2-1 to progress to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals on the away goals ruling in a 4-4 aggregate scoreline.
UEFA.com
Friday, 16 March 2007
UEFA has charged FC Bayern München goalkeeper Oliver Kahn and defender Lucio for improper conduct at the post-match doping control after their team's UEFA Champions League first knockout round second-leg encounter against Real Madrid CF in Munich last week.
22 March hearing
The two players were found to have breached basic rules of good conduct, and the case will be dealt with by the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body next Thursday, 22 March. Bayern won the match 2-1 to progress to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals on the away goals ruling in a 4-4 aggregate scoreline.
UEFA.com
In the prime of his sporting life, Michel Platini was blessed with skills that could win a contest - indeed win a whole tournament - with one graceful stroke.
On the field, his perfect balance, his assured touch with either foot created an illusion that he could toy with time. As leader, he made better players of those around him.
Now, 20 years on, Platini, the French- born son of an Italian soccer player, is playing a different field. His uniform is a dark suit, his place is again in leadership, but in his first months as president of UEFA, the European governing body of soccer, he can only seek change through persuasion and perseverance.
On Monday, at a meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, he began his drive toward new statutes in European administration. His long-term goal is to develop a charter to free soccer within 53 nations so that, instead of being prisoner to commercialism, greed and winner-take-all violence, it reverts somewhat to the game that he played so well.
Having been at Platini's lunch table twice recently, on either side of his campaign to win the presidency, it is clear he still wants to be the best player around. Whether he can lift his game, whether he has the wiles to dislodge those besotted by money and power, is yet to be tested.
If Monday was the first small step toward returning soccer to its players, Wednesday brings a test of UEFA's resolve to make those players behave.
UEFA is due to hear pleas from six players - four from Inter Milan and two from Valencia - against suspensions that followed a brawl at the end of a Champions League game March 6.
Among the six is David Navarro. He was a substitute, until he ran onto the pitch to break the nose of Inter's Nicolas Burdisso with a punch. Navarro was last seen running from a pack of Inter players. The violence continued into the tunnel and even the dressing rooms. I was with Platini when news came that UEFA's disciplinary committee had banned Navarro for seven months and had issued other suspensions and fines to the fighters of both clubs.
"I am totally for strong punishment," Platini said, adding that UEFA would ask the world body, FIFA, "to extend the ban to all fixtures around the world."
If this was a test of Platini's resolve, he did not flinch. If we expected the first man to move from the playing field to high administration always to be on the side of players, we were mistaken.
"I am for the players," he said, "but the game is more important. Some people wrote that I wanted to give football back to the footballers - I have never said that. What I want is to give football back its values, to restore a balance. You cannot have that if you allow violence."
As a player, Platini always had an awareness that there were men who would destroy talent if they were allowed to. He sensed as a boy, and proved as a man by leading France to its first significant trophy - the 1984 European Championship - that he was strong enough to impose his skills.
But his aversion to violence hardened during his years in Italy, where he performed for Juventus against defenders who would brutally hack at his shins.
In Brussels in 1985 he saw from the field the catastrophic consequences of violence at the Heysel Stadium, where 39 Juventus fans were crushed to death as they fled Liverpool supporters. UEFA decided to go ahead with the game.
Platini scored the only goal, a penalty, to win that European Cup final. But his joy in the game was forever tainted. Violence scares him, repels him, and he is inclined toward zero tolerance, on or off the pitch.
"The game is important," he said. "But life is more important. We are seeing violence rising again. If it comes inside the stadium, we have to stop the game, to finish it. We have to be radical. If you want to come to see a game of football, you will have to be a good fan."
He says this with heavy regret. In his first month as president, a policeman was killed outside a stadium in Sicily. Within days, Platini asked the European Union to help police his game.
He proposed a police force to combat soccer-related hooliganism across the continent. His idea might prove a touch idealistic. The EU, which has just celebrated its 50th anniversary with a soccer game in Manchester, has 27 different ways of policing its 27 member nations.
Platini was diplomatically told that the idea merits consideration, but the politics of it might take many, many months of debate.
He is the continent's soccer leader, but he cannot change the games, much less the business or the politics, with a stroke of elegance as he did while playing.
"I am a leader, not a lawyer or an expert on the statutes." he said.
At his side in London sat Geoffrey Thompson, chairman of the English soccer association, a justice of the peace and the type of seasoned committeeman Platini looks to for guidance.
"We had a good UEFA under the old president," Thompson said, referring to Lennart Johansson, the Swede who lost the election to Platini. "We shall have an enjoyable future under this man who played this game so beautifully."
International Herald Tribune
On the field, his perfect balance, his assured touch with either foot created an illusion that he could toy with time. As leader, he made better players of those around him.
Now, 20 years on, Platini, the French- born son of an Italian soccer player, is playing a different field. His uniform is a dark suit, his place is again in leadership, but in his first months as president of UEFA, the European governing body of soccer, he can only seek change through persuasion and perseverance.
On Monday, at a meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, he began his drive toward new statutes in European administration. His long-term goal is to develop a charter to free soccer within 53 nations so that, instead of being prisoner to commercialism, greed and winner-take-all violence, it reverts somewhat to the game that he played so well.
Having been at Platini's lunch table twice recently, on either side of his campaign to win the presidency, it is clear he still wants to be the best player around. Whether he can lift his game, whether he has the wiles to dislodge those besotted by money and power, is yet to be tested.
If Monday was the first small step toward returning soccer to its players, Wednesday brings a test of UEFA's resolve to make those players behave.
UEFA is due to hear pleas from six players - four from Inter Milan and two from Valencia - against suspensions that followed a brawl at the end of a Champions League game March 6.
Among the six is David Navarro. He was a substitute, until he ran onto the pitch to break the nose of Inter's Nicolas Burdisso with a punch. Navarro was last seen running from a pack of Inter players. The violence continued into the tunnel and even the dressing rooms. I was with Platini when news came that UEFA's disciplinary committee had banned Navarro for seven months and had issued other suspensions and fines to the fighters of both clubs.
"I am totally for strong punishment," Platini said, adding that UEFA would ask the world body, FIFA, "to extend the ban to all fixtures around the world."
If this was a test of Platini's resolve, he did not flinch. If we expected the first man to move from the playing field to high administration always to be on the side of players, we were mistaken.
"I am for the players," he said, "but the game is more important. Some people wrote that I wanted to give football back to the footballers - I have never said that. What I want is to give football back its values, to restore a balance. You cannot have that if you allow violence."
As a player, Platini always had an awareness that there were men who would destroy talent if they were allowed to. He sensed as a boy, and proved as a man by leading France to its first significant trophy - the 1984 European Championship - that he was strong enough to impose his skills.
But his aversion to violence hardened during his years in Italy, where he performed for Juventus against defenders who would brutally hack at his shins.
In Brussels in 1985 he saw from the field the catastrophic consequences of violence at the Heysel Stadium, where 39 Juventus fans were crushed to death as they fled Liverpool supporters. UEFA decided to go ahead with the game.
Platini scored the only goal, a penalty, to win that European Cup final. But his joy in the game was forever tainted. Violence scares him, repels him, and he is inclined toward zero tolerance, on or off the pitch.
"The game is important," he said. "But life is more important. We are seeing violence rising again. If it comes inside the stadium, we have to stop the game, to finish it. We have to be radical. If you want to come to see a game of football, you will have to be a good fan."
He says this with heavy regret. In his first month as president, a policeman was killed outside a stadium in Sicily. Within days, Platini asked the European Union to help police his game.
He proposed a police force to combat soccer-related hooliganism across the continent. His idea might prove a touch idealistic. The EU, which has just celebrated its 50th anniversary with a soccer game in Manchester, has 27 different ways of policing its 27 member nations.
Platini was diplomatically told that the idea merits consideration, but the politics of it might take many, many months of debate.
He is the continent's soccer leader, but he cannot change the games, much less the business or the politics, with a stroke of elegance as he did while playing.
"I am a leader, not a lawyer or an expert on the statutes." he said.
At his side in London sat Geoffrey Thompson, chairman of the English soccer association, a justice of the peace and the type of seasoned committeeman Platini looks to for guidance.
"We had a good UEFA under the old president," Thompson said, referring to Lennart Johansson, the Swede who lost the election to Platini. "We shall have an enjoyable future under this man who played this game so beautifully."
International Herald Tribune
Morientes to miss Chelsea ties
Valencia CF striker Fernando Morientes will almost certainly miss both legs of his side's UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea FC next week after dislocating his shoulder while playing for Spain on Wednesday night.
Four-week lay-off
According to Spain's medical staff, Morientes faces up to four weeks on the sidelines after falling awkwardly just before half-time during his side's 1-0 UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying win against Iceland. The striker, who will turn 31 the day after the first leg at Stamford Bridge, is also doubtful for the return leg six days later.
Shoulder blow
"Morientes' shoulder was dislocated and now he will need to have it immobilised for 15 days so he will be missing the next three to four weeks," said Spain's team doctor Genaro Borrás. "It's not the first time Morientes has had problems with his shoulder so the area is unstable and he will need that time to recover." The news will come as a major blow to Valencia, for whom the experienced striker has scored 12 league goals and found the target five times in seven UEFA Champions League appearances this term.
Bad news
Valencia CF striker Fernando Morientes will almost certainly miss both legs of his side's UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea FC next week after dislocating his shoulder while playing for Spain on Wednesday night.
Four-week lay-off
According to Spain's medical staff, Morientes faces up to four weeks on the sidelines after falling awkwardly just before half-time during his side's 1-0 UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying win against Iceland. The striker, who will turn 31 the day after the first leg at Stamford Bridge, is also doubtful for the return leg six days later.
Shoulder blow
"Morientes' shoulder was dislocated and now he will need to have it immobilised for 15 days so he will be missing the next three to four weeks," said Spain's team doctor Genaro Borrás. "It's not the first time Morientes has had problems with his shoulder so the area is unstable and he will need that time to recover." The news will come as a major blow to Valencia, for whom the experienced striker has scored 12 league goals and found the target five times in seven UEFA Champions League appearances this term.
Bad news
i certainly think that would be the scenario.
