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World Service,14 Sep 2012,28 mins

Kosovo's bid for football recognition

World Football

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A special report on Kosovo’s campaign for UEFA membership, featuring Kosovan-born Valon Behrami and Lorik Cana who play for Switzerland and Albania respectively. the former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan who discusses the role of agents, the sacking of managers and greedy modern-day footballers. The FIFA President Sepp Blatter tells us how there’s only 1 person in FIFA he can trust and how he’s surrounded by yes-men who won’t tell him the truth. He also looks back at the controversial Presidential election of 1998 in which he was accused of buying votes. And as Jens Lehmann expresses an interest in playing for Germany’s blind-football team at the 2016 Paralympics, we look at the potential impact of the London Games on the sport.

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