Definitely not worth to be greedy

Last Tuesday, the world football organization has permanently removed three greedy officials from the sport. This trio were former presidents of their own football associations and pleaded guilty for corruption charges in April.
From Guam, Richard Lai confessed to two charges of fraud conspiracy. This act also tried his colleague from Nicaragua, Julio Rocha who also did racketeering. And over to Venezuela, Rafael Esquivel did the above two plus money laundering or working in bribery scheme of awarding media and marketing rights.
In addition to life suspensions, these three officials are fined appropriately with the amount of bribes they admitted they took.

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Sexual harassed worker

On the appearance of sexual harassment in business places (throughout the world), this bad habit has been covered into this sport as well. Just 24 hours after his resignation which happened last week, now the ex-president of Italian football federation Carlo Tavecchio is accused of sexually harassing a co-worker. Under the alias Mary for daily newspaper Corriere della Sera the lady discovered the harassment lasted for nearly three years after which she abandoned the federation. 'You look fine, I can see that you have an active sex life. Come here to touch your breasts. Close the curtains, so no one can see us...I was confused and I was ashamed' explained the lady in one of the meeting with the former president in Rome. All the audio and video evidence Mary gave to her lawyer.

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Middle finger in forbidden place

Five goals, lots of excitement, one bizarre situation plus this match finishes earlier than expected - in short words: all this football can provide in everyday life...except for last two. On last Sunday in November at the penultimate week in the Brazilian championship, Serie A, Ponte Preta played against Vitoria. In the end the hosts are relegated to lower division from an unusual game.
First in the twentieth minute Rodrigo earned a direct red card because he did something hideous in this professional sport. During play, home defender put his middle finger in the bum of Vitoria player Rodrigo Trellez.
Second thing is that this game ended prematurely. After the third goal from the guests from Bahia, home hooligans entered the pitch, and because there was no conditions this match to continue, referee Ricardo Marques ended the play 8 minutes from normal time.

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Best own goal with a superb strike

If there is an award for best own goals, probably this will be it for this year. However, the beauty lies in the strike. Last Sunday in Holland a visiting defender scored one of the amazing goal so far in the championship, which unfortunately for him went into his own net. At that point he equalized against Groningen, who also won the match at the end. 
Some players, who do not have a clue what to do with the ball, often return it back to their goalkeepers. Obviously pressured, Fankaty Dabo from Vitesse managed to score a spectacular own goal.

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Penultimate team for last tournament

Six continental champions will be gathered next month in United Arab Emirates to give us an answer of who is playing best club football. Today we found out the second Asian representative which is going to join this event.
Apart from the host Al-Jazira, in the Club World Cup from the Asian Champions league entered Urawa Red Diamonds. After first 90 minutes ended in a draw, a single goal at the second leg was enough for the Japanese club to win its second continental title, is being second Asian team at the final competition in December, with its second appearance overall.
The final list of champion teams will be completed next week (Wednesday morning) from the CONMEBOL region.

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