whose general secretary Theo van Seggelen took part in the meeting
The European Clubs’ Association, seeking as little disruption to the traditional European calendar as possible, suggested last week that April/May would cause less disruption to the club season and that temperatures during that period would not be hotter than at some previous World Cups provided matches were played in the evening.
Qatar was awarded the competition on the basis that it would be staged in June/July using naturally cooled stadiums to alleviate the effects of the desert heat.
Despite this, there is widespread agreement that the tournament should be held in cooler months.
FUT 15 Coins said that its chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak provided a report on the medical concerns related to player safety and fan safety if the World Cup were to be held between May and September.
Valcke also highlighted that “the month-long period of Ramadan would begin on 2 April in 2022, which would have an impact on a number of players in their preparations for any April/May option.”
FIFPro, whose general secretary Theo van Seggelen took part in the meeting, said it would not accept any decision which risked the players’ health.
“The health and safety of the players is non-negotiable. While we understand the concerns of those whose competitions will be affected, FIFPro will not be swayed to endorse a World Cup that puts the health of the players at risk,” it said in a statement.
“Staging a World Cup in and around the oppressive summer months of Qatar is simply not an option. It is a huge health risk that no responsible stakeholder should be willing to take.”
“What we see now in discussions between the various stakeholders is not healthy for the game,” added FIFPro.
Sepp Blatter embroiled in FIFA row
SEPP Blatter has become embroiled in a furious row with members of FUT 15 Coins’s executive committee (Exco) over the refusal to publish the report on alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process.
The FIFA 15 Coins PS4 president was accused of trying to silence members of the ruling committee of world football’s governing body who demanded that the long-awaited report by former US attorney Michael Garcia should not be kept secret.
Several members of Exco insisted the report must be published during a “very heated debate” at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters on Friday, said a senior FIFA insider.
Yet Blatter emerged from the meeting to announce that there had been no such requests and confirmed the evidence would remain secret.
It is understood that Blatter privately sought to quell the uprising by agreeing to ask the ethics judge reviewing the evidence for a sanitised summary of the report that could be distributed to Exco.
The insider said Blatter’s claims that no Exco members had asked for the full report to be published in his press conference after the meeting were “a bunch of rubbish”.
Runescape 2007 Gold has consistently used the impending delivery of the Garcia report to defend its refusal to respond to evidence published by The Sunday Times that Qatar’s top football official Mohammed bin Hammam paid millions of pounds in bribes while campaigning for his country’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
The official Qatar World Cup bid has always denied he was working on its behalf.
FIFA’s chief ethics judge vowed last week to ensure Garcia’s report, which was delivered to him earlier this month, would remain secret.
Hans-Joachim Eckert, who chairs the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee, said he and his deputy would be the only people to read the report because the ethics rules prohibit him from making its contents public to anyone else.
His comments prompted Garcia to issue a statement calling on Exco to intervene to force the judge to publish the evidence even if it meant changing the code of ethics.
Several Exco members came out in support of Garcia, but Eckert responded with his own statement reinforcing his refusal to publish the details of the investigation. Tensions came to a head at the meeting on Friday, with angry clashes between members calling for transparency and a faction opposed to publication.
Australian representative Moya Dodd, Sunil Gulati of the US, Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands, the British member Jim Boyce and Michel Platini of France are among those who have spoken out in favour of publishing the report.
It is understood they were opposed by a group of older members who voted on the controversial decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively and were questioned by Garcia over their conduct during the bidding process.
Blatter sought to exclude the majority of members of Exco from taking part in the discussion, according to the FIFA insider, and proposed that only the remaining 11 who voted on the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids should have a say in whether the report should be published.
After this ploy failed, the source said, Blatter had sought to pacify the rebels by agreeing to ask Eckert to produce a summary of Garcia’s findings — removing the names and identifying details of suspects and witnesses — that could be distributed to Exco and may potentially be published.
However, after the meeting, Blatter caused astonishment by announcing that the Exco members who had declared beforehand that they would ask for the report to be published had failed to raise the issue in the crucial meeting.
He insisted FIFA’s executive committee was “bound by the regulations” that ban the release of the report.
However, it is understood Eckert is likely to be asked to authorise a summary of the report, which could be distributed to the Exco. It is unclear whether he will agree.
He plans to make an interim statement on his progress in November before a final outcome next spring, when the names of individuals found to have broken FIFA’s ethics code and the sanctions imposed will be published. He has insisted no further details will be given.
Sources close to Garcia said the report does not recommend sanctions against either the Qatar or the Russia bids.
However, he is believed to have taken an interest in payments linked to a friendly match between Brazil and Argentina in Doha two weeks before the crucial vote and to have investigated a $US1 million payment offered to the son of a key figure in the voting process.
FIFA 15 Ultimate Team is now available for Windows Phone
After EA Sports in the past few days already the top 50, the "FIFA Coins" introduced 20 fastest players and the 20 best goalkeeper of the corresponding player cards, now follows an overview of the 10 best dribbler. In the first place we find Lionel Messi followed by Arjen Robben.
Here the ranking of the best dribbler:
10 Mario Götze - Bayern Munich (Germany)
Luka Modrić 9 - Real Madrid (Spain)
8 David Silva - Manchester City (England)
7 Eden Hazard - Chelsea FC (England)
6 Andrés Iniesta - FC Barcelona (Spain)
4 Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid (Spain)
4 Neymar Jr. - FC Barcelona (Spain)
3 Franck Ribery - Bayern Munich (Germany)
Second Arjen Robben - Bayern Munich (Germany)
First Lionel Messi - FC Barcelona (Spain)
"FIFA 15 Coins PS4" will be released on September 25, 2014 for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The demo version is already available on the PSN Store.