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    Blatter gives Peru till Monday to avoid ban

    Reuters

    Friday, November 21, 2008

    FIFA president Sepp Blatter has given Peru until Monday to end a long-running feud between the football federation (FPF) and the government or face an immediate international ban. ''The problem in Peru is there is political intervention in the organisation of football,'' Blatter told a news conference in Chile. ''On Monday we at FIFA need to receive an official document in which the government ... and the football federation ... agree to solve the problem in a period of 10 days. ''If we do no ...

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