The pipedream 

Despite a three-year failure to organise a national championship, the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) retains the backing of the AFC and Fifa. They have issued a deadline on 4 May for the government to reinstate the suspended ANFA, following a string of administrative and legal breaches. Nepal’s players have become the first victims of the political standoff.

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Catch me if you can

The Fifa Code of Ethics prohibits active participants in football from endorsing sports betting operators. How is it that Atlético de Madrid’s manager Diego Simeone is the current official ambassador of Betinia and Campobet?

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Abracadabra

Fifa’s new prediction market partner Predictstreet received its Gibraltar gambling licence a mere nine days after the company was founded, and one of its directors works for a law firm of which the Minister who issued that licence is a partner.

Fast and loose

Fifa’s new prediction market partner Adi Predictstreet’s cast of controversial characters keeps growing: in 2018, its new Money Laundering Reporting Officer Colin Piri accepted a two-year ban from Gibraltar’s financial watchdog over his then-employer’s AML shortcomings. 

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Meet the new boss

Twenty-four hours after Josimar revealed that Fifa’s new “prediction market” partner Adi Predictstreet was run by a man accused of insider trading, the Abu Dhabi firm appointed a CEO linked to ‘Qatargate’, one of the biggest lobbying scandals in the history of the EU Parliament.

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Inside Deal

Ahead of the World Cup, Fifa has signed a prediction market partner. But the company, ADI Predictstreet, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family, has no working product yet, is unlicensed in almost all jurisdictions and  is run by a man who last year paid a six-figure sum to settle an accusation of insider trading in India.

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My name is “Smith”, “Alexander Smith”

How did a computer science academic and reality TV show contestant from Zagreb end up representing illegal sports-betting operator Z6 when it signed a sponsorship agreement with the Croatia national football team?

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By design, not error

Gaming the system or playing the game: is Morocco a scapegoat of African football’s own making?

Fifa’s red card

By ignoring and even actively worsening the climate crisis, Fifa is failing its mission statement -  to make the game global and ensure a sustainable future for the sport. 

Cease and desist

Saudi Arabia wants a repeat of the Qatar World Cup – little or no accountability over its treatment of migrant workers. The Arab Kingdom is not shy to intimidate unions to get a current complaint at the International Labour Organization (ILO) dropped.

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