Sentence examples for tournament away from inspiring English sources

The FIFA president is not advocating that his executive committee take the tournament away from the Middle Eastern state.

They've not hidden the tournament away in small venues – our matches are at Manchester, Wembley and the Millennium Stadium, which are fantastic venues," he said.

QATAR DEFENDS CHOICE Insisting it deserves the chance to stage the World Cup, soccer officials in Qatar responded to comments by an English official suggesting that FIFA consider taking the 2022 tournament away from the desert nation.

Taking the tournament away from Rapid City and the Black Hills — which the Lakota people still want returned to them, citing a treaty broken in 1877 — would set a bad precedent for Native American youth.

Since 1990, 17 per cent of World Cups, 25 per cent of Copas America, 17 per cent of Asian Cups and no European Championships have been won by hosts, while 44 per cent of Cups of Nations have, despite CAF's policy of taking the tournament away from the traditional heartlands to places such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Angola and Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

Qatar was chosen to host the tournament back in December 2010 but concerns have been raised about summer temperatures in the Middle East state, which can exceed 50 degrees, prompting talk of switching the tournament away from its usual June-July slot to a possible January or February start.

Despite Blatter wanting teams kicked out of competitions if there is sustained racist abuse by fans, he sees no need to take Fifa tournaments away from countries blighted by racism in stadiums.

In the end, Conway's accounts were joined by other investigations carried out in The Globe and Mail, alleging frauds that included the pinching of pension funds, insurance claims and the siphoning off of international tournament profits away from the players and towards himself.

A team that had never won a tournament game away from home?

When he senses a tournament slipping away, Woods truly becomes a tiger.

"As much as I hate to see the tournament go away, I think it is the right decision," said Dawn Marie Castellana, the tournament director.