Accused of having account in Switzerland, Romario calls for tax investigation

Involved in several issues in the Senate, including the establishment of football CPI, Senator Romario (PSB-RJ) said, on Friday, on the bank account which supposedly keeps in Switzerland.See the report target, speculation was treated naturally by Romario, who sent a request asking the Attorney General to speed up the investigations.

In an interview with O Globo, Romario revealed that the account holder was Swiss bank BSI at the time that he served in Europe during the 1990s "When I played in Europe, had account in BSI. Just do not know what year. I do not remember but I believe that if the account is not busy, it is automatically closed, "said the former athlete, who lived in Europe between 1988 and 1994, when he defended Ajax of the Netherlands and Barcelona.

Romario wrote letter to Dr. Rodrigo Janot, the Attorney General, to the Swiss prosecutors begin investigation into the alleged undeclared goods by the Brazilian in foreign territory. "I request to be officiated to the prosecutor of Switzerland to initiate investigation procedures in order to ascertain whether the alleged bank account really exists and has been busy some value," said the statement.

Recently, the former athlete's name was mentioned in an Edson Ribeiro recording, lawyer of former director of Petrobras, Nestor Cervero, about an alleged favoritisms scheme that combines the succession of Mayor Eduardo Paes in Rio de Janeiro to the blind of any funds obtained from Swiss bank and not declared to the tax authorities by Romario.

An operation of the Federal Police (PF), including, arrested on Friday lawyer Edson Ribeiro, placed in the hands of police after landing at Tom Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro.Romario, which should support the candidate Pedro Paulo in City Hall if they do not compete, was defended by the current mayor, Eduardo Paes.

"I have an understanding with Romario senator that if he does not come candidate will support the Pedro Paulo" he said, taking the opportunity to reject the statements of Delcídio Amaral and Edson Ribeiro in the recordings. "I think unfortunate these charges that have been denied to the press vehicle that published them," said Paes, referring to the withdrawal of View after disclosure of the rumor in July.

Hall of Fame of the Mexican baseball new era begins on Monday

The Hall of Fame of the Mexican Professional Baseball and will from next Monday a new space to build its headquarters, to be signed loan terrain. The place where this new exhibition of Mexican baseball immortals will be built next to the Paseo Santa Lucia, and which will continue the Hall of Fame which hosted for decades the Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma. 

This loan signing of new land will be at the Fundidora Park, where the presence of the state governor Jaime Rodriguez is expected, and the top leaders of the Mexican baseball. The director of the Hall of Fame of the Mexican baseball, Francisco Padilla, said the presence of several immortals of this enclosure, as Fernando "Toro" Valenzuela, Marcelo Juarez, Arturo Gonzalez and Felipe Montemayor and others are also expected. 

The Hall of Fame of the Mexican baseball stopped its activities in 2013, because of conflicts arising between the enterprise and the authorities of that sport.

Juventus and UNESCO presented the first report on racism in football

The Italian football club Juventus and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday presented the first report on discrimination and racism in football, It aims to raise awareness to other clubs and society in general.

The study, titled "Colour? What colour?" and conducted between October 2014 and last May, she has had the collaboration of sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists, focusing on football in Europe and is funded by both entities.

Unlike document various types of racism: impulsive, consists of individual spontaneous gestures; instrumental, against specific individuals and groups in a more planned, or institutionally, involving clubs and entities that block the participation of minorities and encompasses gender discrimination. The document, which does not give specific examples but branded as unacceptable such behaviour, individualised sanctions and ending calls "completely" with the collective, clubs and fans to watch their local networks that involve both team members as they think the fans or the media.

One of its authors, sociologist Albrecht Sonntag, said Friday in his presentation that should improve terminology campaigns with positive words and slogans and more civic development of trade promotion and brand image by equipment.

Sonntag said that phenomena such as homophobia and sexism are parts of the same problem and stressed that "now institutions such as FIFA or UEFA, which are unfortunately stained by other matters, show no legitimacy in their lucky campaigns against racism", so sometimes their messages are not valued. Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, also present in Paris, said the need to raise awareness among other clubs to adopt the recommendations, which are not directed against any particular group.

In Italy, he noted that "it has been greatly improved, largely due to increased immigration", which makes it are making visible "less xenophobic attitudes."

The director general of the UN agency, Irina Bokova, said the idea for the study came after the "symbolic game" UNESCO Cup played Real Madrid and Juventus in 2004, an event from which the collaboration and awareness Italian club "was absolute".

Bokova stressed that UNESCO and carried out other local projects with clubs like FC Barcelona and Malaga, and social inclusion initiatives in areas such as Africa, but this is the first time that this issue is addressed in a report centered around the continent. EFE

Pellegrini and the possible arrival of Guardiola City: "Not a problem for me"

Manchester City coach, Manuel Pellegrini, said rumours of the Spanish press that Josep Guardiola will replace him in the position he is demised next season.

"Do not talk about rumours. It's not a problem for me," said the Chilean coach at a news conference.

Pellegrini also had words for the alleged offer the City made ​​to FC Barcelona Lionel Messi: " Any coach in the world would like to have Lionel Messi, but do not talk about rumors. "

Concerning the two defeats suffered by his team in recent weeks, the engineer said " . It was not a good week for us, we lost two games against Liverpool was an ugly defeat and against Juventus we improve a little, but not the result we really wanted " .

"You never know which team will win the Premier League, Liverpool came here and won, before they lost to Crystal Palace and Palace lost to Sunderland," he added.

Anyway, it was positive about what's next for the club at this time. " Southampton is having a great season, they are unbeaten away from home and have great players. We must play well if we want to win. If we win we will recover at least one position, and then we have the possibility to reach semi-finals of the Capital One Cup. We have two games at home to recover our level. "

FIFA unveils nominees for the 11th World

FIFA announced on Thursday 55 nominees perfect 11, 2015, a list that governs the Real Madrid with 12 representatives from 11 of the 10 Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

In the list there are 14 teams, three in the Spanish league, four of the Premier, two of the Bundesliga, one of Serie A, one of Ligue 1, one of the Portuguese league, one from Argentina and one of the league MLS.

Eleven elite players, "regardless of nationality or color of the shirt you defend every weekend, joined by the talent and the recognition of his colleagues, that is the FIFA FIFPro World XI," the agency on its official website .

The award, which rewards the best 11 players of the season, has known this Thursday at 55 finalists, the product of choice among almost 25 000 active players in 70 countries across the globe. "From players for players" it is the motto of the vote.

A total of five goalkeepers, 20 defenders, 15 midfielders and 15 forwards were announced as finalists in a joint initiative between FIFA and FIFPro, the representative of professional players in the world, which has lasted seven years.

On 11 January they will be announced the 11 members of the dream team for 2015, as part of the Gala Golden Ball FIFA.

The 55 selected players are:

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Italy / Juventus), Iker Casillas (Spain / Porto), David De Gea (Spain / Manchester United), Keylor Navas (Costa Rica / Real Madrid CF) and Manuel Neuer (Germany / Bayern Munich).

Defenders: David Alaba (Austria / Bayern Munich), Jordi Alba (Spain / FC Barcelona), Jerome Boateng (Germany / Bayern Munich), Daniel Carvajal (Spain / Real Madrid CF), Giorgio Chiellini (Italy / Juventus), Dani Alves (Brazil / FC Barcelona), David Luiz (Brazil / Paris Saint-Germain), Diego Godín (Uruguay / Atletico Madrid), Mats Hummels (Germany / Borussia Dortmund), Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia / Chelsea FC), Vincent Kompany ( Belgium / Manchester City), Philipp Lahm (Germany / Bayern Munich), Marcelo (Brazil / Real Madrid CF), Javier Mascherano (Argentina / FC Barcelona), Pepe (Portugal / Real Madrid CF), Gerard Pique (Spain / FC Barcelona ), Sergio Ramos (Spain / Real Madrid CF), John Terry (England / Chelsea FC), Thiago Silva (Brazil / Paris Saint-Germain) and Raphael Varane (France / Real Madrid CF).

Midfielders: Thiago Alcántara (Spain / Bayern Munich), Xabi Alonso (Spain / Bayern Munich), Sergio Busquets (Spain / FC Barcelona), Eden Hazard (Belgium / Chelsea FC), Andres Iniesta (Spain / FC Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Germany / Real Madrid CF), Luka Modric (Croatia / Real Madrid CF), Andrea Pirlo (Italy / New York City FC), Paul Pogba (France / Juventus), Ivan Rakitic (Croatia / FC Barcelona), James Rodriguez ( Colombia / Real Madrid CF), David Silva (Spain / Manchester City), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast / Manchester City), Marco Verratti (Italy / Paris Saint-Germain) and Arturo Vidal (Chile / Bayern Munich).

Forwards: Sergio Aguero (Argentina / Manchester City), Gareth Bale (Wales / Real Madrid CF), Karim Benzema (France / Real Madrid CF), Douglas Costa (Brazil / Bayern Munich), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal / Real Madrid CF) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden / Paris Saint-Germain), Robert Lewandowski (Poland / Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Argentina / FC Barcelona), Thomas Mueller (Germany / Bayern Munich), Neymar (Brazil / FC Barcelona), Arjen Robben (Netherlands / Bayern Munich), Wayne Rooney (England / Manchester United), Alexis Sanchez (Chile / Arsenal), Luis Suarez (Uruguay / FC Barcelona), Carlos Tevez (Argentina / Boca Juniors).

ManCity willing to madness for Messi and there would already have the offer ready!

PlayStation stuff, from fantasy, call it what you want, but it seems willing to bring to the table Manchester City to clinch Leo Messi goes beyond the wildest imagination. You enter the pantheon of those football the measure to the tune of millions, perhaps a universe that has nothing to do with sports, but that it is woven with so much sensational as incredible.

 1.2 million a week salary, amounting to about 62 million a year. Ah, clarification: image rights and bonuses already included. It is of such magnitude that the check the owner of Manchester City Mansour would be willing to disconnect in order to have the flea in their squad and, in parallel, finally looking to excel even in Europe (where the citizens have always reeled).

The Sun also reports that the deal at exorbitant between Barcelona and Sky Blues would have already started: a first meeting of the Argentine star and his entourage with the States General of the British company but could be forced to wait until 2018 (the year of natural Argentine ace out of contract): otherwise would need a buyout clause of 250 million. Then the sheikh might be inclined to save money by offering only 170 million next summer: we therefore confirm whether what was written actually corresponds to the truth.