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Football Notes: Qatar Athletics Federation Considering Legal Action Over Allegations

The Qatar Athletics Federation said Sunday that it was "considering legal action following newspaper claims" it paid nearly $3.5M to a company headed by the son of disgraced former IAAF President Lamine Diack. In a statement, the QAF added it had "no knowledge or involvement" of the money allegedly paid out by Oryx Qatar Sport Investments to Papa Massata Diack's Pamodzi Sports Consulting company. The allegations were made earlier this month in French newspaper Le Monde (AFP, 11/20).

An Ecuadorian court gave a 10-year jail sentence to former national football federation President Luis Chiriboga for corruption on Friday in "another case stemming from the scandal at world governing body FIFA." Chiriboga, 70, who ran the federation for 18 years but has been under house arrest since late '15, "was convicted of money-laundering along with two others at the organization." He is one of about 40 football bosses, mainly Latin Americans, "implicated in U.S.-led investigations that have rocked FIFA." Judge Miriam Escobar said that about $6.1M had "passed illegally" through Ecuador's federation (REUTERS, 11/19).

A human rights scholar and lawyer in Lusaka, Zambia, said that the FA of Zambia "should go ahead and include a non-discrimination clause" in its constitution. FAZ is in the middle of a constitutional review process "aimed at aligning its statutes" with FIFA. A draft constitution circulated by FAZ to its members reads, "Discrimination of any kind against a country, private person or group of people on account of race, skin colour, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, wealth, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion." Passing this constitutional change would "seemingly put the football association at odds with the country's laws regarding homosexuality" (BBC, 11/20).

At first it was thought that FIFA "would only take action against the poppy-embroidered armbands" England and Scotland players wore. But a FIFA spokesperson said that the disciplinary committee decided to open proceedings against the FA and the Scottish FA over a "series of incidents reported after the match," citing, in addition to the armbands, a "non-approved ceremony" and various displays of the poppy symbol. FIFA is also investigating "fan misconduct," believed to be scenes of violence, the throwing of objects onto the pitch and the booing of both national anthems (London TELEGRAPH, 11/18).

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