{"id":2056,"date":"2016-02-25T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/25\/fifa-election-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-race-to-replace-sepp-blatter\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:14:16","slug":"fifa-election-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-race-to-replace-sepp-blatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/25\/fifa-election-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-race-to-replace-sepp-blatter\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA election: All you need to know about the race to replace Sepp Blatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to global soccer<\/a>, you’d be hard-pressed to overstate the significance of FIFA<\/a>‘s presidential election this Friday. The vote represents a chance for soccer’s governing body to finally move on from the excess and scandal that defined Sepp Blatter’s 17-year reign as capo di tutti capi<\/em><\/p>\n

But will Friday’s vote actually catalyze true reform? Or should we soccer fans steel ourselves to simply meet the new boss, same as the old boss? We won’t have definitive answers for years \u2014 but Friday sets the course<\/p>\n

Below, you’ll find everything you need to know for Friday’s FIFA election, as well as some expert insight from ESPN investigative reporter Jeremy Schaap. Schaap produced a powerful documentary<\/a> last spring that helped illuminate just how rotten Blatter’s FIFA had become, and he’ll be in Zurich, Switzerland, covering Friday’s election Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Soccer<\/a>, Entertainment<\/a>, Fifa<\/a>, Conversations<\/a>, and Sports<\/a>
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When it comes to global soccer, you’d be hard-pressed to overstate the significance of FIFA‘s presidential election this Friday. The vote represents a chance for soccer’s governing body to finally move on from the excess and scandal that defined Sepp … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}