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Southern Soccer Scene has a brand new re-designed website. Same place, but a new look with brand new features. Take a look at www.southernsoccerscene.com. Bookmark it and visit often.
Much of the content is free, but each month, the current printed issue of Southern Soccer Scene will be up on the site on the day the printed edition goes to press. The content of the current printed edition will be available on a subscription basis.
Subscribers will receive both the current printed edition in their mailbox and a personal code that will allow them to access the current issue online. Current subscribers will be provided personal code when this feature goes into effect with our April 15 issue.
We hope that you enjoy the new website design and updated features. We also encourage you to click on our online advertisers, and visit our special sections, including Camps, JOB CENTER, Tournaments and Collegiate Signees.
If you are not currently a subscriber, we urge you to visit the site, click on the subscription link and become an “instant subscriber” today.
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Say It Ain’t So, Joe
FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter has a new corruption problem in the world of soccer. Europol, from The Hague in the Netherlands, has reported that organized crime has fixed or tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches throughout the world in recent years, including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League matches.
The report was the result of an 18-month review of 380 suspicious matches in Europe and another 300 questionable games outside the continent, mainly in Africa, Asia and South and Central America. Europol, the European Union’s police agency, refused to name any suspected matches, players, officials or match-fixers.
Europol reported 425 match officials, club office officials and players and criminals from at least 15 countries were involved in fixing European soccer games dating back to 2008.
New FHSAA Age Limit
The Florida High School Athletic Association has adopted a new age limit rule, which will go into effect on July 1, 2014. It states that a “student who reaches the age of 19 on or after September 1, and who has not exceeded his/her four-year limit of eligibility, may participate in inter-scholastic athletics during that school year.”
Previously, the rule stated that a student may participate at the high school level until reaching the age limit of 19 years and nine months, if the student had not exceeded their four-year limit of eligibility.
Prior to this rule change, Florida was the only state to have an age limit that exceeded 19 years of age, and proponents of the change say it will stop athletes who age out in their home states, from transferring to Florida where they would have been eligible to play for another nine months.