Rain outlandish projects a new arena and high and proud proclamations of support for the glorious Servette Hockey-Cluc continues. Radicals propose a new arena in the parking Vernets (less parking, it is true that it's always good to take) or on the station site des Eaux-Vives, liberals are asking the State Council reach a joint project with the municipalities and the club on a specific location (it is better, in fact, because an inaccurate rink on a site, it is unclear what it might look like, if not freezing fog), and all this within five years. As for Mark Muller, sussurre if we do not support explicit le projet de nouvelle patinoire dans le cadre du projet de méga-centre sportif de Plan-les-Ouates, il n'attend que le moment de chausser ses patins de combat pour envoyer le puck aux Charpines. Bref, tout le monde s'agite (même nous, pour préparer un référendum au cas où). Euh... y'a des élections bientôt ou quoi ?
Les conneries de l'Euro2008 se reproduisent pour le Mondial2010 : deux sociétés se disputant le marché des « fans zones » se sont retrouvées devant la justice, la première, Genevents, qui installera des écrans et des animations aux Vernets, accusant la seconde, CPF (la société du député radical Frédiric Hohl) de concurrence unfair by offering a second "fan zone" and a second giant screen at the Praille in pursuing aggressive traders (probably not aware of the flop of the "fan zone" set up by the same two years ago at the End of the World) including traders who had already booked a booth at Vernets, for example by offering them for spots on a giant screen that the company did not yet received permission to install. As for the police, she was concerned: having regard to its staffing and mobilizations already provided (for "Lake Parade, which takes place the same day as the World Cup final, for example), two "fan zones" of 10,000 people each, it unmanageable security perspective. You will see that to complete the comic repetition, we will find itself again with the grotesque balloon floating Euro 2008 (when there is no wind, no rain) above the jet water, and we will have to again offer a premium to find a way to send it into the lake ...
The téléromande is quite happy: it has attracted 412'000 spectators to watch the Swiss get out of the Euro by Turkey, and reached up to 48, 8% market share (55 % pour TSR 1, 42,9 pour TSR 2) pendant les "prime time" de la période de l'Eurofoot. Bon, cela dit, 412'000 spectateurs, ça fait guère qu'un gros quart de la population romande... Si on ajoute les chaînes françaises (TF1 et M6), qui font ensemble 21,4 % de part de marché, on arrive à un peu gros tiers de la population, ce qui correspond aux sondages effectués avant l'Eurofoot et qui indiquaient qu'un tiers de la population s'y intéressaient, un tiers s'en foutaient et un tiers y était allergique. Au bilan final, selon l'UEFA elle-même, l'Eurofoot a été suivi en moyenne par 155 millions de téléspectateurs, dans le monde entier, ce qui est bien moins que claironné before the "event" to state that Eurofoot would generate intense interest and then to actually be able to confirm that aroused passionate interest had been released estimates of credibility unlikely that 6.4 million people living in Switzerland, or 91.6% of the population, including infants and bedridden, would watch (and had looked) at least once a live broadcast of a match of the Euro. According to the same statistics, men have spent half past eleven in front of the TV watching Eurofoot (it is roughly equivalent to six games, counting the half-time) and Women 8 ½ hours (four matches and dust).
A study to highlight how actors in a major event are encouraged to incorporate risk assessment and safety problems in the organization of the event was launched by the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne. She is co-funded by the EPFL and the International Federation of Professional Football, FIFA. But not, apparently, by UIEFA. Well gosh, for a surprise is a surprise ...
The UEFA president did not like the color orange, the VIP area of the stadium was repainted Praille blue. At whose cost, exactly?
Great idea again: that was launched by the editor of "plots", Francesco Della Chiesa, and recovery (it deserves) by GHI: a floating stage on the lake, walking between Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux and Evian. After the balloon to Jobin, yeah, it was missing. The lake, it became the flea market?
The pebbles on the Plainpalais were removed, sometimes by hand, and replaced with gravel. "We made sure not to provide any ammunition inside the site in case of clashes," said the inevitable prebendary of Radical deputy to the sides of Euromachin Frederic Hohl.
In fact, it has not removed the ammunition was only changed in size.
After deflation of the balloon at the end Jobin (who is enthusiastic about the effect of the image of that thing above the water jet, an image that was "round the world"), Geneva Tourism Ad it assesses "the impact of advertising" of the thing, trying to compare the cost of paid advertising on 140 TV stations that broadcast the image of the balloon on the jet. It's so stupid as
comparison, anyway, Geneva was, alas, one of the host cities of Eurofoot, images of the water jet without balloon, were released on the same TV channels than those who were released with balloon. And the jet of water would it have been illuminated in green tint goose poop that the image would also have "gone around the world" ...
Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger and his colleagues from Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein, environment ministers, have permits, impolite, to criticize UEFA for its lack of environmental awareness, and CO2 emissions caused by 'Eurofoot. They are naive, our Ministers of the Environment : Waiting for UEFA to manifest a touch of environmental awareness? And why not ask the UDC to defend international solidarity?
Anyway, UEFA conscience: it is the humanitarian. Yes, yes. She pledged to make that 4000 euros to the ICRC for each goal scored. Humanitarian
but stingy.
A falconer has been mandated to keep away, with birds of prey, pigeons Stadium Praille pigeons which, like all birds, the bad habit of shitting on the premises they occupy. A method "ecological, inexpensive and very effective," says the director of the stadium, Carnazzola. The opposite of the stadium, in fact. And the Director of rejoicing in the "Sunday Morning" May 25 "seats and windows boxes are no longer contaminated by the droppings" (this is always the pigeons, not the occupants of the boxes). A hawk and two jets will patrol every day so above the stage to scare away pigeons. This rapprochement between sport-dough and ornythologie was, inevitably, in the air in the soap and the Praille Eurofoot, nozzles, (true or false) idiots and pigeons have been present since the beginning .
Souvenirs (in "Le Temps" on 27 May) of the Swiss goalkeeper football during the World Cup 1954 (it took place in Switzerland), Eugene Parlier said "Gégène"): the players had received a total of 900 balls for any damages (they all had a job on the side), a case of "vivi-cola" and twenty packets of fags "Moroccan" ... And had resulted in the semifinals. Ben well, that we are getting older ...
A comedy series produced by TV Romande (French and two private channels), "futurofoot" has drawn the wrath of UEFA, which has banned (she had the power?) Diffusion in the "Fan Zone" Plainpalais, accusing him of making fun "of football its bodies, its rules and its philosophy "by showing" (...) sexual content and scenes of violence "(doctors flying the players, players fighting with each other, fights between players and referees). The Drawings (or Jean-Luc Bideau officiates in "Professor Blotter") explain "how to bribe a referee," "how to cause a player without being punished," "how to score or stop a penalty kick for sure." She's right, the UEFA, criticizing "futurofoot" is not a comedy series is a documentary ... The director of that documentary, Nicolas Wadimoff, finds the letter carefully to the UEFA amazing tone straight out the Stalin era, "and noted that the" Fan Zones "are downright become" UEFA areas where we must think UEFA UEFA laughter "(" Le Matin Dimanche, 25 May). Yeah. But it ' is not the only fan-zone Plainpalais was a "UEFA zone" was all Geneva.
According to two surveys of the Institute for Research and Studies of media advertising (REMP), 15% of the population plays susse football for fun and not for the money) and an amateur footballer is a footballer in five (one in four children under 35 years). The practice of amateur football for 16% of the Alemanni, 11% and 10 Romands % of Ticino. The proportion of smokers is higher (31%) in that amateur footballers in the general population (29%), but they consume less alcohol. Supporters compensate.
Most footballs are manufactured by hand in Pakistan, particularly in Sialkot in Punjab, where 35,000 people (women and men but, still, children) produce twenty million balloons per year. Until at least 1996, this production was largely carried by children working at home, and excluded from school by their work. 17,000 children and 42,000 adults were employed in the manufacture of footballs in 1996. In 1997, a treaty between producers, UNICEF and ILO prohibited the employment of children under 14. This treaty had effect: 10,000 children were able to follow the primary school, 5000, then continue their training but the families pertdu a source of income, and labor compensation has not improved it even decreased by 10% in ten years. Today, workers, paid by the piece, earning 40 to 75 cents per ball produced in the "normal" conditions, or 50% more for those made under conditions of fair trade, we find these "fair ball" in trade with us for a price just higher than others.
The Swiss imports each year a million and a half of soccer balls sold between twenty and forty francs. Schools buy 20 to 30% of the goods without much whether it was produced under the usual conditions of serfdom or those of "fair trade". It is therefore likely that schools in our beautiful country buying balloons "made in conditions of misery" and exploitation, as reported by the Work of Swiss Labour Assistance (SLA). Before Eurofoot, Credit Suisse had the brilliant idea to launch a marketing campaign by distributing 200,000 footballs. Before pointed out to him that good Part of the production of these balloons was still handled by children, which ultimately pushed the bank to donate one million to UNICEF. When the International Federation of Professional Football, FIFA, has "banned" for its certified firms to employ children, but it makes no due diligence and does not endorse the ban a violation of ex post Once the offense denounced (when it is), found (when we made the effort) and proven (when possible), this ban is probably often violated the rules of football at international matches. Especially since the "certified companies" frequently use subcontractors who, themselves, are not "certified".
According to the "England Journal of Medicine", watch a football match for "high stakes" increases the risk of heart attack. Emergency services recorded a peak attendance in the two hours after the kickoff of a sporting event, and some cardiologists wonder if we should not, for prophylaxis, delete-proof "shots on goal ". French doctors recommend their patients post-myocardial not to watch football matches important. In 2006, during the football World Cup, hospitalizations increased 25% Germany. It is certainly in most cases benign, but as the ER are already congested, these benign conditions have even more congested. During the World Cup in Germany, the number of heart ailments has doubled in Munich, and the risk of heart attack during the matches of the German team was 3.26 times higher for men and 1.82 times higher for women than normal. Within the population suffering from arterial ailments have quadrupled.
Hence the good advice of "Sunday Morning" from 1 June: during the matches, "at least move the legs from time to time," "Avoid alcohol", "do not forget your medications," "watch the games with friends or family" (they call for help), and "Dial 144 in case of emergency."
This would not be easier to get downright hospitalized before the game? According
the Geneva gendarmerie, the record of alcohol recorded during Eurofoot amounted to 3.67 per thousand for men and 2.69 per thousand for women.
Equality is making great strides. Finally ... when it comes to stand still.
is estimated at 770 tons per year global consumption of drugs, without taking into account that steroid anabolic steroids and testosterone. this corresponds to an annual 14 billion doses of steroids and 34 billion doses of EPO and GH, and 15 million consumers of steroids, 1 and a half million and two million Testosterone EPO and GH. Athletes, professional or amateur, are the vast majority of consumers of these bullshit: 38 to 40% of consumers are in the customer gyms (and safety professionals), and 35 to 37% athletes in any sport (Le Monde, June 17, 2008).
consumption of beer, sausages and chips was boosted by Eurofoot in Switzerland in June, sales of beer increased 15% compared to June 2007, sales of sausages 11%, sales of chips by 9%, sales of peanuts, salted nuts and seeds 6% of those sporting goods 15%. By contrast, sales of televisions, video equipment and cameras were down 3-25%. Everybody can not make money at the same time.
past two years, Austria was training intensively for the Euro. In August 2006, a young woman, Natascha Kampusch, managed to escape from a cellar where she was held captive for eight years and a half near Vienna. In April 2008, we discovered that a man sequestered for years his own daughter in a cellar, after raping her and making her seven children. In May 2008, finally, a 39 year old man killed his entire family with an ax on the grounds of his family to avoid the shame of his own ruin. The Austrian football team (qualified automatically for Euro) was beginning to scare his opponents.
Yet, according to a poll just before the start of the competition, 34% of Austrian-ne-s said they were "not interested" Eurofoot, and 22% "somewhat interested". And in September 2007, a petition was launched under the title "Austria is known to hold" for Austria qualified automatically for Euro puisqu'organisatrice (like Switzerland to compete, we do not need to play, just pay) withdraws from the tournament because of his footballing low level, and to allow teams more worthy to participate in Eurofoot to participate. In one month, the petition had collected 10,000 signatures.
A Croatian war criminal, the Ustasha Milijov Asner, former police chief of the fascist regime of Ante Pavelic, 95 years old Strawberry and support of Croatia, was spotted and photographed on the terrace of a café Klagenfurt. Considered "senile" by the Austrian courts, and therefore unfit to stand trial, he was presented by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as an example of the protection granted by Austria to former war criminals. Another example of a past that does not happen is the place of final Eurofoot: Viennese stage in Nazi past. So what? For the gods of the stadium, it is well worth Nuremberg, right?
According to figures published by "Time" (31 May), 146'300 juniors are enrolled in a football club in 2008 in Switzerland, including 19,000 girls. In ten years the number of juniors enrolled in a club has increased by 20%, while in Meanwhile, the athletic clubs lost half of their juniors.
After Euro2008 football, the Mondial2009 hockey. And so, after Flix and Trix, Cooly. Cooly is the chosen mascot for the 2009 world championship ice hockey, to be held in Switzerland. Cooly and is a cow. A cow for a world championship hockey, it makes sense. But it is unclear in what direction.
The State Foundation for tourism, Tourism and Geneva Cantonal Committee of Sports Toto 360,000 bullets slammed poour float a large ball (fifteen meters in diameter) above the water jet (from least when the wind does not blow at more than 30 km / h). The thing was held by three cables, two attached to the pier, connected to a floating barge. The installation of mooring points had required the installation of 40 tons of crap in the lake, and the launching of a barge equipped with a winch. And it was necessary to mobilize a dozen specialists, April 23, to implement this bullshit.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Association of Professional Football Leagues on April 14 signed a cooperation agreement to promote initiatives to raise awareness of the issues relating to food security and the fight against hunger. Both organizations believe that the power of football is an effective tool for development and for promoting the fight against world hunger and to achieve the goal of halving by 2015 the number of people suffering from hunger and poverty. All this is fine. But given the amount of crap diverse as football fans will gobble during the Euro, would see to sign an agreement of cooperation: the fight against gluttony and obesity.
After the Beijing Olympics will be held the Olympics (winter) in Vancouver in 2010. And again, there's the natives who bitch. Tibetans not, obviously, but the Indians. The damned bitch wild against the construction of new infrastructure on the territories that are supposed to be theirs, and have never been ceded to the federal government or the province: Hotels, parking and gondola should thrive on the last hunting grounds intact Salish. Who was never consulted by either the local Olympic committee or the IOC. Are shitting the redskins, they know that they were beaten by John Wayne?
As the Olympic Games in Beijing, they will be held in a city cleaned its dissidents: End July, Amnesty International reported on the "values of the Olympic Charter" (which means "to encourage a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity"), facing the Chinese reality. Conclusion: the death sentences and executions (8000 per year) continues, "re-education through labor" for petty criminals and deviants also different, the pressure and repression on human rights defenders ditto, censorship s' is strengthened against journalists and the internet, national minorities, particularly Tibetans and Uighurs, are targeted ... from late December 2007, police began to arrest and put under house arrest dozens of human rights activists, intellectuals and lawyers critical of each other. What does not move the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, who keeps saying that we should not "mix sport and politics," should not "ask the IOC to solve all the problems of the world "(besides, we are not asking anything, the IOC) that the IOC is" a sports organization "(still formed national committees controlled from near and far by states) and which told the Financial Times qu'il fallait se montrer "patients" avec la Chine, étant donné son histoire. Et aux journaliste du "Temps" qui lui rappellent que la Charte olympique, dans son art. 5, "fait référence aux droits de l'Homme", Rogge répond : "Nous défendons le principe général des droits de l'Homme, sans entrer dans le domaine spécifique du monde de la politique". C'est commode, ça fait des droits de l'Homme une sorte d'ectoplasme métaphysique sans contenu réel, et ça évite d'avoir à se battre pour les faire respecter.
Le 27 juillet, le Secrétaire Général et l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU ont lancé un "appel solennel" à tous Member States for an "Olympic Truce" at the opening games, August 8, to "allow to reflect the high price of war, to open a dialogue and provide assistance to people who suffer from conflict ".
Result: During the Games, the Georgia attack South Ossetia, Russia invaded Georgia, the war continues in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
The 2014 World Cup will take place in Brazil, which was the only country in the running, 30 October 2007, at the decision by FIFA. "A World Cup in Brazil is like going on pilgrimage to Macque, St. Jacques de Compostela or Jerusalem," said, inspired by the Most High, the president of UEFA, Michel Platini St. it will not be easy to play football prostrate or kneeling. As for the writer Paulo Coelho, he tried to joke: "the emotion of football lasts longer than sex. But this is not better." Coelho's humor is of the same level as his books.
As for Brazil, he promised a "World" social and ecological. It will play in a World without sponsors and without the national anthems games in vacant lots with balls of vegetable fiber in the matches pitting teams of amateurs. No? Ah well ...
"The Courier" breaks the atmosphere of the "great festival of football" by recalling (June 13) what was used, and what could cause the matches of some national teams in international competition:
- match between Italy Fascist and Republican Spain in the World 1934: several English players injured, the match is canceled;
- match between fascist Italy and fascist Hungary in 1938 at the World: the Italians are cut in military uniform;
- match between a Ukrainian team and a German team in 1942 in Kiev. Ukrainians earn. All Ukrainian team was arrested by the Gestapo, all players are tortured and deported, many die in the camps.
- match between Peru and Argentina in 1964 in Lima. The referee cancels a Peruvian goal, the audience protested, two of them tumble to the ground, the police fired shots into the air and causing a panic that is 320 dead and 800 wounded.
- playoff matches of the World Cup between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969: El Salvador lost the first leg in Honduras, wins the second leg at home after the Honduran players hotel was on fire. Clashes are two deaths. El Salvador then won the playoff in Mexico. A war between El Salvador and Honduras, it lasts a week, is 2000 dead and thousands injured. According to sexologist
Ronald Virag, men now prefer football on TV and sex, and month of Eurofoot promises to be particularly depressing for couples (but exciting enough, however, for single men on the hunt for 'supporters' wives).
