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Diego Maradona was sacked as Argentina coach following a quarterfinal exit at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. |
The 1986 Apple Cup champ delivered the battery at his aboriginal columnist appointment as drillmaster of Dubai-based club Al Wasl on Saturday, as he reflected on the contempo FIFA presidential elections in which bounden Sepp Blatter ran unopposed.
Blatter's capital opponent, Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar, was abeyant advanced of the vote forth with adolescent FIFA controlling Jack Warner afterward accusations of bribery.
"There is a lot of bribery involving FIFA admiral and they are all millionaires because of football," the above Argentina amateur and drillmaster said.
"I admiration if Blatter has anytime kicked a football in his life, and yet we accept been beneath the ascendancy of such bodies who accept banned to accord up ability in FIFA.
"Why don't they all aloof abandon their positions, booty the money they accept fabricated and leave the alive of the action in the added able easily of above football players?"
Maradona, a arguable amount who was beatific home from the 1994 Apple Cup for application drugs, said he had never admired the FIFA establishment.
"I don't abutment base bodies and I will never be on their side. I accept consistently been asked by them to abutment the FIFA family. But what ancestors are they talking about? This action belongs to us and they accept never anytime asked us to be allotment of the development process," the 50-year-old said.
"They accept too abundant ability and this has fabricated them so aloof and proud. This is not what a 18-carat football lover needs from such officials. After all football, is the better action in the world.
"We will abide accomplishing what we are accomplishing so that these base bodies go away. They are too old and back they accept fabricated so abundant money at the amount of football, they should artlessly booty it all and go away. Please leave football alone."
Maradona, who angry up added than an hour backward for the media briefing, added that FIFA had aside his attempts to anatomy a players' union.
"What did FIFA do? They formed adjoin us to ensure the abutment never saw the ablaze of day," he said.
Meanwhile, FIFA is investigating Argentina's 4-1 defeat by Nigeria on Wednesday as allotment of a added analysis into match-fixing, according to a address in Britain's Daily Telegraph on Saturday.
The cardboard said there was affirmation of aberrant patterns as adjudicator Ibrahim Chaibou of Niger accustomed three added account of injury-time in accession to the bristles already awarded afore Argentina denticulate from a penalty.
"FIFA can affirm that this bout amid Nigeria and Argentina was one that we had an alive absorption in, and forms allotment of a added advancing investigation," it said in a account to the Telegraph.
The Nigerian Football Federation appear a account abstinent the allegation on Saturday.
"We are anxious at attempts by arrant elements to comedy bottomward the accomplishment that our civic aggregation performed by assault Argentina," accepted secretary Musa Amadu said.
"This bout was apparent on abounding television stations, including ESPN, and in advanced of a army of 50,000, and we are assertive that Nigeria's Super Eagles appropriately won that match, arena to the rules, and acutely outplaying our opponents."
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