Now he's back, fronting a collection of investors who want to get their hands on Chelsea FC.

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Once upon a time (in 2003), a Russian billionaire named Roman Abromovich bought the English soccer team Chelsea FC.

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Roubini is said to have partied with Russian oligarch Roman Abramnovich, owner of English soccer team Chelsea FC, at St.

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After this historic title, Corinthians also won the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup defeating the seventh most valuable soccer team, the English superpower Chelsea FC.

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By 1997 he had moderated his views sufficiently to be offered the role of sports minister - he is an enthusiastic fan of Chelsea FC - though he was never truly comfortable in government.

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He held managing spells at PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, FC Porto, and FC Barcelona, where current Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho worked as his translator.

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Fifa punished Switzerland's FC Sion for a similar offence to Chelsea's in April and the club was told it could not sign players until the 2010 off-season.

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English soccer fans see Chelsea as a nouveau-riche upstart, while Germans refer to Bayern Munich as "FC Hollywood, " which sounds like a compliment, but actually means the club's players are a bunch of entitled, egotistic monsters.

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