Good morning, America. Welcome to the VICE Sports World News Roundup. Be sure to stop by daily for your morning headlines.It's the 21st of December, 2015, and Sepp Blatter is still, technically, president of FIFA.Meanwhile, the FIFA Ethics Committee today banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight (8) years!
The charges that led to their suspensions related to the roughly $2 million payment FIFA made to Platini in 2011, which was supposedly the result of an oral contract the two made for work Platini did after Blatter was first elected president in 1998.
Remarkable performance from Blatter at 79, still shamelessly defiant in four languages
Chelsea played Sunderland over the weekend. It was the first game after Chelsea fired Jose Mourinho. The team played pretty well, beating Sunderland 3-1. Chelsea fans, suspecting the players lacked motivation and were complicit in Mourinho's departure, booed the team during much of the match.We have a managerial merry-go-round on our hands! Jose Mourinho's nemesis Pep Guardiola announced he will leave Bayern Munich at the end of the season. Carlo Ancelotti will take over.We don't yet know where Guardiola will go, but it's probably somewhere in England. If it turns out to be Chelsea, that would be a knife in Mourinho's back. Mourinho, for his part, is also being linked to Manchester United, especially if Van Gaal—Mou's one-time mentor—gets fired.And he might get fired! Manchester United lost 1-2 to Norwich. Also, Liverpool were beaten 3-0 by Watford.In Spain, Real Madrid beat Rayo Vallecano, 10-2, last night. Gareth Bale scored four. Meanwhile, Barcelona won the Club World Cup, beating River Plate in the final, 3-0.
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In Germany, Cologne somehow beat Dortmund, 2-1. Leverkusen overcame Ingolstadt, 1-0, and—wait for it—Chicharito scored again. Also, Stuttgart beat Wolfsburg 3-1. Lol.Everyone can relax. Tyson Fury, misogynist and homophobic-turned boxer, did not win the BBC's Sportsperson of the Year award. The award went to Andy Murray, who helped bring the Davis Cup to the UK.
Photo of the Day
I happen to be a sucker for ski jumping photographs. Here's Swiss jumper Simon Ammann at the World Championships, in Engelberg, Switzerland.
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