A mobile app bearing the name and logo of Fifa's new "prediction market partner" ADI Predictstreet has finally landed in the Google Play store. What it leads to is an illegal online casino.
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The press remains one of the last checks on Fifa’s power. Gianni Infantino and his media office are cracking down on it.
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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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.
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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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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Gaming the system or playing the game: is Morocco a scapegoat of African football’s own making?
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.
Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.
The 2010 Fifa World Cup official anthem “Waka Waka” was meant to raise a fortune for African charities, but no money has been forthcoming since 2014. Josimar can tell where some of the missing millions have gone.
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In an unprecedented move, Flamengo are offering odds on their ‘in-house’ betting platform Flabet and encouraging supporters to gamble on the club’s own matches. Will this be a new trend, elite clubs having their own betting brand?
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Ignoring a tender and a clear conflict of interest, Alejandro Domínguez has paved the way for his favourite club, Olimpia, to host the World Cup Stadium in 2030, bypassing the two stadiums included in Paraguay’s bid. Fifa has given the green light.
