Soviet goalkeeping great Lev Yashin is the centrepiece for the official poster of the 2018 World Cup, which was presented Tuesday in Moscow, Russia ahead of next summer’s tournament. Yashin appeared in four World Cups…
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FIFA has put a new spin on a footballing classic. Adidas unveiled the official match ball for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Telstar 18, on Thursday. Its black-panel design is a “reimagining” of…
Three contenders remain. FIFA revealed the final nominees for The Best FIFA Football Awards on Friday, and, to nobody’s surprise, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Neymar were nominated for The Best FIFA Men’s Player award….
The 24 nominees for The Best FIFA Men’s Player award were announced Thursday. The list will be whittled down to three final nominees by votes from national team coaches, international captains, select media, and fans….
The FIFA Appeal Committee announced Friday it has upheld the appeal submitted by the Argentinian Football Association regarding Lionel Messi. The appeal was lodged against the FIFA Disciplinary Committee after its decision to issue a…
The outcome of Argentina‘s 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign rests largely on Lionel Messi‘s ability to dazzle, which doesn’t bode well for La Albiceleste since the Argentinian genius is suspended for three of the last…
Argentina‘s 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign is in need of revival, and the first week of May will be instrumental to any chance of recovery. In conversation with Telam, Claudio Tapia, the president of the…
Argentina‘s mission to qualify for the 2018 World Cup is in jeopardy. Not only is La Albiceleste fifth in South America’s two-year marathon, but Lionel Messi is suspended for three of the national team’s final…
Few people in Argentina are more familiar with FIFA’s disciplinary committee than Diego Maradona. Controversy followed Maradona throughout his playing and coaching career, and the Argentine legend was forced to serve a series of bans…
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Antoine Griezmann have survived the chopping block, as the three superstars have been named finalists for Best FIFA Men’s Player of 2016. The award – now the governing body’s top…
FIFA revealed the 10 nominees in the running for the 2016 Puskas Award, with Lionel Messi, Neymar, Saul Niguez, and Hal Robson-Kanu headlining the list of those in contention for the coveted title of best…
The winner of the Ballon d’Or will no longer be FIFA’s World Player of the Year. France Football announced Friday that it’s splitting with FIFA over the coveted award. For the past six years, the…
FIFA audit and compliance chairman Domenico Scala has resigned from his post in protest over President Gianni Infantino’s efforts to control the governing body’s independent panels. Scala, who ran the independent panel created in 2012…
Kosovo and Gibraltar will have the opportunity to compete in 2018 World Cup qualifying after being admitted as the 210th and 211 FIFA members on Friday. After gaining political independence in 2008, Kosovo has fought…
FIFA named Senegalese United Nations executive Fatma Samoura its first female secretary general Friday, a first step towards modernising and improving the credibility of world football’s governing body. Samoura will replace the suspended Jerome Valcke…
A trial of using video assistants “to avoid clearly incorrect decisions” will occur by the 2017-18 season at the latest. The development was confirmed in a meeting of the International Football Association board in Cardiff…
Newly elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino has revealed that moves to introduce video replay technology into football will begin “sooner rather than later.” Trialling the technology is expected to be approved at the International FA…
New FIFA president Gianni Infantino has revealed that the World Cups in Russia and Qatar will go ahead as planned. The voting for both tournaments occurred under the watch of deposed despot Sepp Blatter in…
A small, bald lawyer is expected to revolutionise football, but high expectations are premature. The election of Gianni Infantino is largely perceived as a new chapter for FIFA and for football in general, the start…
In the end, it wasn’t even close. Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, who viewed himself as the only man brave enough to challenge Sepp Blatter last year, saw his dreams of becoming the ninth FIFA…
Newly-minted FIFA president Gianni Infantino addressed the media – and the world – for his first official press conference as the leader of football’s governing body on Friday, giving a brief statement and answering a…
Gianni Infantino was named FIFA’s ninth president on Friday, and it didn’t take long for his predecessor, Sepp Blatter, to praise his selection. Speaking about the Swiss-Italian UEFA general secretary moments after the second round…
It’s finally over: Sepp Blatter’s stranglehold on FIFA – and perhaps even tighter grip on its finances – has been released following the election of new president Gianni Infantino. Related: Gianni Infantino elected as FIFA…
FIFA named Gianni Infantino its ninth president Friday, dodging a bullet by not electing Asian Football Confederation chief Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa. Widely considered a favourite alongside Infantino to replace the embattled Sepp Blatter,…
Gianni Infantino, a Swiss-Italian lawyer who can often be seen orchestrating a draw somewhere on the planet, is FIFA’s ninth president. On Friday, at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, 207 of the 209…
We go again. While the first ballot of FIFA’s presidential election did not see any of the four candidates acquire the necessary two-thirds majority to be named new president of FIFA, it did yield a…
While Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa made his final plea to the 207 member associations set to elect a new FIFA president Friday in Zurich, Switzerland, protesters converged outside the Hallenstadion – where FIFA’s extraordinary…
FIFA members backed reforms intended to “protect against wrongdoing and improve the way FIFA works” ahead of the governing body’s presidential election. The move was confirmed at Friday’s extraordinary congress in Zurich, with 179 delegates…
Tokyo Sexwale ended his campaign for the FIFA presidency on Friday, leaving it up to the remaining four candidates to vie for the hot seat of world football’s governing body. The South African native delivered…
The United States Soccer Federation will once again vote for Prince Ali of Jordan during Friday’s presidential election in Zurich. The federation backed Ali during last spring’s election, when deposed FIFA president Sepp Blatter won…