Iranian women's soccer team is mostly men in drag
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One would not normally think of Iran as a leader in trans-gendered progressive ideology, but when officials began poking around beneath the Islamic head scarves and long-sleeved jerseys worn by players on the Iranian women’s soccer team, they were surprised to discover that most of the players were – to use the hetero-normative language of the obsolete patriarchy – men.
An official close to the Iranian league announced last week that eight men have been “playing with Iran’s female team without completing sex change operations.”
This discovery prompted accusations of unethical conduct against the Iranian league, which “reportedly ordered gender testing of the entire national squad and leading league players,” according to the UK Telegraph.
“The names of the players thought to be male were not revealed,” the Telegraph adds.
It is not the first time men have been caught playing for the Iranian womens’ team. In 2014, four men were discovered on the squad, while the Telegraph dryly observes that “in 2010, doubts were raised about the gender of the team’s goalkeeper.”
As the report notes, sex-change operations are legal in Iran, thanks to a fatwa from the late Ayatollah Khomeini. However, women are not allowed to enter stadiums to watch soccer games between male teams, and recently the Iranian women’s team had to make do without its captain because her husband refused to grant her permission to travel with the squad to Malaysia.
RealMadrid CF star Karim Benzema arrested in sex tape blackmail plot against teammate
Karim Benzema—who plays for the French national team as well as Real Madrid has reportedly been arrested and questioned in connection with a sex tape extortion investigation that is currently taking place in Versailles, France.
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There aren’t many details about the investigation available as of right now. But according to reports, a sex tape featuring Benzema’s French teammate Mathieu Valbuena was filmed on a cell phone earlier this year. And last month, Benzema reportedly had a conversation with Valbuena about the tape. During that conversation, he gave Valbuena some advice regarding what to do about the tape, and police are now trying to determine whether that advice was friendly or meant to be part a larger blackmail plot that was allegedly taking place. They have been investigating the possibility of blackmail since July.
If convicted on blackmail charges, Benzema could face up to five years in prison in France.
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FIFA President given 8 year ban
might as well just make it a lifetime one since he'll be dead after that anyway...
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were each banned for eight years by FIFA's ethics committee on Monday in a stunning takedown of world football's most powerful leaders.
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FIFA president Blatter and Platini, his onetime protégé, were kicked out of the sport for conflict of interest in a 2 million Swiss franc (£1.35 million) payment deal that is also the subject of a criminal investigation in Switzerland. The bans are effective immediately.
Blatter's FIFA career looks set to end in disgrace after more than 17 years as president and 40 years in total with the governing body.
Platini's bid to succeed his former mentor in the Feb. 26 election is now likely over, although he is expected to appeal at the FIFA appeals committee and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Blatter held a news conference shortly after the decision was announced in which he said he would appeal with FIFA, CAS and the Swiss authorities and described himself as a "punching ball."
Ethics judges ruled that Blatter broke FIFA Code of Ethics rules on conflicts of interest, breach of loyalty and offering or receiving gifts.
Both denied wrongdoing in 2011, when Platini took 2 million Swiss francs of FIFA money approved by Blatter as uncontracted salary for work as a presidential adviser from 1999 to 2002.
Blatter was also fined 50,000 Swiss francs ($50,250), and Platini, a FIFA vice president and head of European soccer's governing body, was fined 80,000 Swiss francs ($80,400).
"Neither in his written statement nor in his personal hearing was Mr. Blatter able to demonstrate another legal basis for this payment," the judges said. "By failing to place FIFA's interests first and abstain from doing anything which could be contrary to FIFA's interests, Mr. Blatter violated his fiduciary duty to FIFA.
"His [Blatter's] assertion of an oral agreement was determined as not convincing and was rejected by the chamber."
Platini, the judges said, "failed to act with complete credibility and integrity, showing unawareness of the importance of his duties and concomitant obligations and responsibilities."
The full FIFA statement can be read here.
