mars

[mars @immars13]

@SteveKim323 Best game I have ever attended.

[mars @immars13]

@CLTcanes Have been trying for years. Surprised it has not happened yet.

[mars @immars13]

@GGumucioZ Justiniano no es jugador de nivel internacional.

[mars @immars13]

@CanesLegacy @CanesInSight Do you have the Colorado one?

[mars @immars13]

@IMCFTraveller 🤡 😂

[Jacksonville Cane @JaxCane904]

@gatadata88 Miami won more SEC games last year than UF, but who cares right? Y’all are going 16-0 and winning the natty this season just like last offseason when Lagway was winning the Heisman.

[Throne Spud @ThroneSpud]

Every FBS School's Big Brother🏈

With how the CFB ecosystem works, (almost) everyone has that one program they keep looking up at trying to catch.

What would you change?💭👇

[mars @immars13]

@afa Por lo menos ahora esta todo à la luz del dia. Dime con quien andas y….

[Stewart Mandel @slmandel]

For 17 years, it was “iron sharpens iron.”

Now that the tables have turned it’s “they’re gassed.”

[Víctor Quispe Perca @EstadisticoBo]

Al estilo del MAS, la FBF utiliza masivamente sus bots para hacer "brillar" a la actual gestión.
Antes eran perfiles de africanos y árabes, ahora se crearon páginas de hinchas de clubes para apoyar y pulir sus actividades. Entren a ver 👇
https://t.co/irCvehIXJW

[mars @immars13]

@btoae Pobre partido de Pato, La defensa es un martirio. Justiniano ya no mas por favor. El medio campo se hizo extrañar. ASI y todo gano, muestra coraje. Un poco MAs de cabeza fria y bolivar gaba de lejos

[Félix de Bedout @fdbedout]

La Conmebol sigue en silencio frente a la más grave crisis en la historia de la FIFA, aunque no es difícil adivinar de qué lado están; son los Minions de Infantino, pero sin ser graciosos.

[𝙏𝙤𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙮𝘿𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙮 @ToastyDosty]

@TJ_Pittinger @HunterMaher20 Meanwhile at fsu

[mars @immars13]

@israel_ajoje I appreciate the time and analysis. However, it lacks the most considerable element: practical reality. The support is not linked to the potential development of grass roots soccer. The $ amounts are laid out as a subtle bribe. No audits or thresholds to reach for each MA.

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

This one is really dicey.

FIFA is registered as a non-profit association under Swiss law. Its 211 member associations own it. It pays no corporate tax in Switzerland. And right now, while the ink is barely dry on the 2026 World Cup final, it is in advanced discussions to sell a minority stake in its commercial operations to private investors, with JP Morgan acting as financial adviser and Thrive Capital, whose chief executive is Josh Kushner, expected to lead the investor group.

UEFA is responding. And I see reason with them. Their statement called it a crossing of a line and said the soul and governance of football are not assets to trade.

Let me explain what is actually happening here and why both positions are legally and commercially coherent at the same time.

The legal vehicle at the centre of this is called FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE. It is a FIFA-owned company that would consolidate all of FIFA's commercial rights, broadcasting, sponsorship, ticketing, licensing, and the operational delivery of FIFA tournaments, into a single entity.

Based on how things are proposed, FIFA would retain majority control and exclusive authority over governance, competitions, the match calendar, and all regulatory and sporting decisions.

Private investors would then hold a minority, non-controlling stake in the subsidiary, not in FIFA itself. FIFA says the proposal could deliver more than $10 billion in football development funding over the next four years.

Now here is the legal position.

Under Swiss association law, FIFA has broad autonomy over how it manages and commercialises its assets, provided it pursues its statutory purpose of promoting football and follows its internal decision-making rules.

Creating a commercial subsidiary and selling minority stakes in it to private investors is not categorically prohibited under any applicable law. FIFA already commercialises its rights aggressively through sponsorships, media deals, and licensing arrangements worth billions of dollars per cycle.

Placing some of that commercial activity into a valued vehicle and inviting outside capital is structurally an extension of what FIFA already does, not a departure from it. The proposal requires approval from the FIFA Council and the 211 member associations. That approval process is where the real legal constraints sit, not in Swiss corporate law.

What UEFA is objecting to is not the legality of the structure. They are objecting to the incentive architecture it creates once private capital is inside the tent. And again, that objection deserves to be taken seriously.

Even with formal majority control retained, private investors seeking returns will create ongoing pressure. They will request more matches, an expanded calendar. They will make decisions that prioritise revenue over player welfare or competitive balance.

Of course that pressure will not arrive through a boardroom vote. It arrives gradually, through the logic of what a return on investment requires. FIFA can retain exclusive authority over sporting decisions and still find that sporting decisions are shaped by the financial expectations of its commercial partners. Those are not mutually exclusive outcomes.

The legal permissibility of this structure is high if internal approvals are obtained. The binding constraints are member consent, political capital, and the risk that private capital incentives gradually reshape priorities even under retained formal control.

Football has watched that process play out at club level for thirty years. The question being asked right now, with genuine urgency, is whether the same dynamic should be allowed inside the institution that governs the game itself.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[UEFA @UEFA]

UEFA statement on The Times article: ⬇️

[Mundo Deportivo @mundodeportivo]

💥 Dani Olmo, en el @DiarideTerrassa sobre Ayala: "Alguien que confiesa estar arrepentido pero justifica un puñetazo afirmando que era una respuesta a 'un dicho', es que seguramente no se arrepiente"

💬 "Está faltando a la verdad, porque no le dije nada, así que no me hace falta que se disculpe"
👏 "Lo que nos define realmente no es el error, sino el valor de asumirlo"

[Nico Cantor @Nicocantor1]

Argentina’s borderline physical play went overboard in the final. Enzo’s second yellow was petulant and reckless.

Spain dominated Argentina. It was overwhelming. It filled Argentina with impotence and transformed their fiery passion into this exaggerated aggression.

Football can be chippy but it also has to be football. And yesterday, Argentina didn’t show grace in defeat especially when they were the hopelessly inferior team.

[Manu @ManuDaGoat]

Fifa need to seriously ban like half the argentina squad for a year, they are all insufferable to this great sport.

[Albert Ortega @AlbertOrtegaES1]

Roberto Ayala, cuerpo técnico de Scaloni, agredió a Dani Olmo con un puñetazo tras acabar el partido.

Vergonzoso.