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Um capitão validar “as notas” para um guião do que o selecionador nacional devia dizer numa conferência de imprensa. Guião esse feito, em parte, pelo diretor-desportivo do seu clube. E várias pessoas terão achado normal isto acontecer.
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No meio disto de a FIFA, uma organização sem fins lucrativos, querer de repente privatizar o Mundial, ainda se ouve Infantino dizer esta frase: “Fans remain the cornerstone of the beautiful game.”
Gianni Infantino has created an arbitrary 53-day deadline to force through Member Association votes on contentious plans to sell FIFA stakes under a new subsidiary.
He calls this period a “democratic process”, but it’s one that is rushed and lacks transparency, and yet it has somehow still felt in the works for some time. So why are so many confederations blindsided? Clearly this soft launch, with investors in place, hasn’t happened overnight.
If there is a genuine period of consultation and debate then Infantino has to frequently face media and engage repeatedly with stakeholders and fans not just appear from his own FIFA-branded ‘Oval Office’, or only communicate/defend his position via Instagram slides.
We have a FIFA President telling everyone to “meditate, pray and watch a football game” while engaging in a pre-funded corporate coup driven by greed not a love for the game.
Infantino can argue if the vote passes that’s just democracy at play, but it’s hardly the case if those voting don’t have the full facts and are rushed into a decision skewed by a $40m funding promise.
Let’s not forget what Infantino himself said on the ill-fated European Super League: “There is a lot to throw away for maybe a short-term financial gain.”
FIFA’s new plans, also supported by Super League-backers JP Morgan, are arguably offering precisely what Infantino warned against in 2021.
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The US State Department is trying to help get Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha’s mother to the United States to watch her son play in the World Cup, a State Department official said. cnn.it/4xDlqak
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More outrageous conduct from CNN.
Fake news is bad enough for the country, but pushing out a hoax headline in such a sensitive national security moment as this requires accountability.
Iran put out an official statement that simply cannot be squared with the one CNN's false headline attributes to them.
Time for change at CNN.
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA
ALT Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters. Credit: NASA
ALT A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. Credit: NASA
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA
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The IDF took what appears to be unprecedented action against the battalion involved in my team's assault & detention.
In many ways, that's due to our position as US journalists. In too many cases involving Palestinian journalists & civilians, we've seen a lack of accountability.
.@kaitlancollins on point, as always.
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California Governor @GavinNewsom gives @kaitlancollins his reaction to President Trump's speech in Davos just now:
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"We want a piece of ice for world protection and they won't give it," President Trump says, setting up a choice for European leaders: "Say yes and we will be appreciative. Or, say no and we will remember."
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In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.
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A team of FBI agents were with the US special operation forces who carried out the operation to capture Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, people briefed on the matter tell @evanperez @ZcohenCNN, and plans are now in the works to take Maduro to New York where he will face charges in Manhattan federal court
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Exclusivo CNN: Petro dice que el problema de Maduro es la “falta de democracia” pero que no tiene vínculo con el narcotráfico cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/11/2…
Un reporte en equipo con @IsaCNN y @VascoCNN.
As soon as the snow melted in Alabuga, Russia began expanding one of its largest attack drone factories. Satellite imagery reveals dozens of new buildings well under construction- w/ @clare_seb, @goodwinallegra and @tarasovamarkina.
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The increase in production has a measurable impact on the ground where the buzzing of the Shahed has become a nightly occurrence in most cities around Ukraine. @TarasovaMarkina spoke to several of those affected in and around Kyiv for whom sleep has become a luxury.