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World Football: Fallen Giants, A Waking Giant and FIFA’s Giant

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Fallen Giants, A Waking Giant and FIFA’s Giant

12/09/2014

BBC World Service - World Football, Fallen Giants, A Waking Giant and FIFA’s Giant

We get reaction to Sepp Blatter’s confirmation he will run again for the FIFA Presidency

We get reaction to Sepp Blatter’s confirmation he will run again for the FIFA Presidency.

The FIFA Executive Committee member, Michel D’Hooghe, tells us that, following Michel Platini’s announcement that he won’t run in the 2015 FIFA presidential election, nobody from UEFA will challenge Sepp Blatter and nobody can beat him. Dr D’Hooghe also outlines a new regulation that forces referees to postpone matches for three minutes if a player suffers concussion and gives only the club doctor the power to decide if the player can continue playing or not.

Brazil’s World Cup winning captain Carlos Alberto tells us that there’s aren’t enough good players to mount a serious challenge at the next World Cup, whilst Italy’s former player Gianfranco Zola says that his country has the same problem. Zola also thinks that too many foreign players of average ability are blocking young, home-grown players’ progression in the first teams of clubs.

We talk to the technical director of Belgium’s federation, Paul Allaerts, who tells us how they've unearthed such a promising generation.

And the general-secretary of the All India Football Federation, Kushal Das, says the inaugural Indian Super League is “make or break” for football in his country.

Photo: Brazilian captain Carlos Alberto holds aloft the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy 1970 CREDIT:Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images

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