United lodged a complaint with world governing body Fifa in June 2008 over what they believed was a deliberate attempt by Real to unsettle the player.
But the old Wilsonian notion of a governing world body has been laid to rest.
It is a clear signal from the world governing body that it has lost patience with a LOC that presently consists of just three members. (South Africa had a 16-person board of directors sixty-six months before the opening game).
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At a meeting of the world governing body's executive committee, chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak said match officials should be subject to the same tests as players.
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He was speaking in Rome at a conference with the world football governing body Fifa on how to deal with the issue.
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Among the referees arrested were Petrus Mathabela, Simon Motau and Ronnie Marhule, who are on a panel chosen by world football governing body FIFA to control international fixtures this year.
G14, which represents 18 of Europe's richest clubs, is at odds with the world governing body over a number of issues.
"For the record, Fifa did not tell Kulula that they could not use soccer balls, or the word 'South Africa', or the Cape Town stadium, or the national flag or vuvuzelas, " said a statement from football's world governing body.
The allegations mean a third of football's world governing body executive committee - eight of the 24 members - have been accused of acting improperly, and in some cases taking bribes, in relation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
However, Sheffield central MP Caborn conceded the campaign may not even get off the ground if a major decision by football's world governing body Fifa goes against England.
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In March, it looked as though Pistorius would not get the chance to compete against able-bodied runners after the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, introduced a rule banning any runner deemed to benefit from artificial help.
It provoked widespread criticism of football's world governing body and calls for a reform of its structures.
Kallon is currently suspended from the Serie A campaign but has not been sanctioned by world governing body Fifa.
At a recent summit held by football's world governing body Fifa, the 2010 Organising Committee informed security chiefs from every country about their planned security measures.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen called on Fifa, football's world governing body, to order a replay, saying he would raise the issue with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at a Brussels summit.
Officials for track and field's world governing body sidelined her for nearly a year before she was cleared to run against women in 2010 after undergoing gender and drug tests.
The overall money spent on soccer transfers in 2012 was down 10% compared to the previous year, but the involvement of club and player intermediaries is increasing, according to a new report by FIFA, soccer's world governing body.
Football's world governing body Fifa recommended the move after a long sequence of infighting.
However, he played down suggestions that he was interested in signing a player who was also named among 14 players on world governing body Fifa's "ones to watch in 2009" list.
The club say that the pair have been suspended from international competition by football's world governing body Fifa, pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing.
Next year, world governing body IAAF will launch the Diamond League, a 14-city tour also including events in Asia and the United States.
Belgian club Charleroi, backed by G14, are taking world governing body Fifa to court, claiming compensation over a player injured in an international match.
He wants the world governing body, led by Blatter, to take a "collective decision" to deal with the racism problem, but believes match fixing offers an even greater threat.
Both parties have written to world football's governing body Fifa to explain their side of a power crisis that has divided the football association.
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Normally a FIFA organizing committee would be formed and report to the Executive Committee of the world governing body.
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FIFA, the sport's governing body, has conducted two of what it calls a Big Count of world-wide players.
The FIA, world motorsport's governing body, on Wednesday upheld the fine but called for a review of the team orders rule.
Football's world governing body wants to stop clubs fielding more than five non-nationals in a starting XI, a move the EU says would be illegal.
In hope of straightening out these tangles, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Web's governing body, has recently released a new standard for creating Web pages.
"It is incredible, that we had such incidents especially in the Italian Serie A in the San Siro between AC Milan and Roma, a very important match, " continued Blatter, who has been head of world football's governing body since 1998.
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