Wednesday, January 30, 2008

War between Fifa and Evo Morales

The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said in this friday that the Fifa if finds "superior that the Unidas" Nations;. It came back to condemn the veto of the entity to the practical one of the soccer in places of altitude very raised. It is "right of that, with the support of the South America, he will not have veto to the soccer in La Paz". Recently, the Fifa determined that international games in located stadiums will not be disputed more than 3.000m above of the level of the sea, not to be when the teams to make use of a period of acclimatization of at least two weeks. In this friday, Morales said that the Fifa if finds "superior that the Unidas" Nations;. It believes that the support of the Conmebol and the too much South-american countries will be decisive in favor of Bolivia. he "I am presumptuous of that the federacies of the South America and its controllers, as (the president of the Conmebol, Nicolás) Leoz e (the vice-president of the Fifa, Julio) Grondona, never will go in abandoning them, because not if it can exclude the countries that live in great altitudes", he added. The president of Bolivia also detached "as conclusions of a great meeting of the Conmebol carried through in Santiago of Chile in 22 of this month, when the resolution of the Fifa was rejected by unanimidade". "Se we live in a raised altitude, we have the right to play in places of high altitude. We have many Argentines and players of other countries that play in some teams of the bolivian league of soccer and had never complained of the height. It is important to understand isto", he emphasized. According to Morales, the subject is "nas mãos" of the president of the Fifa, the Swiss Joseph Blatter, who "if it compromised" with the proper president of Bolivia "a to finish with this injustiça". "Tenho much confidence and I feel myself proud of our controllers of the South America. The soccer in joins them. I not only received support from the controllers of the soccer, but also of the Governments. I had that to speak with many presidents to prevent this veto", the governor declared. Morales made these affirmations after if congregating with the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The meeting happened in the capital Buenos Aires.

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