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VICE Sports World News Roundup: December 1

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It's the 1st of December, 2015, and Sepp Blatter is still, technically, president of FIFA.

Have you been wondering whether the increased scrutiny of FIFA by various governments around the world might cause Qatar to better its treatment of World Cup laborers? Well Amnesty International has answers, and they're not good. Reform plans in Qatar have been delayed.

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A Chinese Consortium bought 13% of City Football Group, the owner of both Manchester City and New York City FC, for a cool $400m.

Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas, who is in the midst of an awful season, had a particularly terrible game last weekend. The Independent has the lowlights:

Zinedine Zidane's son received a red card for headbutting an opponent. Like father, like son.

Armenia's FA president made some weird remarks last week about "betrayal" in its European qualifying campaign that sounded an awful lot like allegations of match-fixing. He cleared all that up yesterday by telling the press, "I did not say that the game was sold. I said that a betrayal took place." Got it?

Legendary defensive midfielder Edgar Davids says it's easy to defend Cristiano Ronaldo. (Link in Spanish)

One of these 3 guys is going to win the World Player of the Year award:

The top 3 candidates for the Puskas Award are here:

Photo of the Day

Here is 37-time and reigning sexiest man alive Carles Puyol and partner Vanesa Lorenzo at the Spanish LFP awards.

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