Diego Costa has decided to play for the national team of Spain, and the decision was not without consequences. The Brazilians want to withdraw him the citizenship, while coach Luis Felipe Scolari has been quite annoying during the press conference when was asked about Atletico Madrid striker. The problems of the top scorer from the [ Read More ]
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Former Croatian international Niko Kovac, to date coach of national youth team, will take over the main football team of Croatia after the Croatian Federation accepted the resignation of Igor Stimac, informed uefa.com. Niko Kovac, aged 42 years old, was appointed coach after a meeting of the Federation at which attended and the the president [ Read More ]
The Netherlands beat Turkey in Istanbul 2-0, after goals scored by Robben and Sneijder, two of the leading footballers for the Oranje. This result helped Romania to finish second in Group D of World Cup qualifying in Brazil, and get tickets for the play-off round of qualifying at the final tournament from next year. But [ Read More ]
FIFPro, the worldwide players’ union, and FIFA announced the 55 players shortlisted for the FIFA FIFPro World XI 2011 (see full list below), which is to be revealed at the FIFA Ballon d’Or in Zurich on 9 January 2012. The 50,000 professional footballers belonging to the players’ unions across the world that form FIFPro took [ Read More ]
The race to determine the winner of the FIFA Puskás Award for the “best goal of the year” has started on FIFA.com. Fans from across the world will decide which of the ten goals selected by FIFA’s football experts will be the winner of this award. Videos of the ten goals, as well as the [ Read More ]
The candidates for the FIFA Ballon d’Or award have been unveiled, and the final decisions will be made by the captains and head coaches of the men’s national teams as well as by international media representatives selected by France Football. The lists of 23 candidates have been drawn up by football experts from the Football [ Read More ]
The FIFA Task Force Football 2014 convened for the second time under the chairmanship of Franz Beckenbauer at the Home of FIFA in Zurich. “The FIFA Task Force Football 2014 plays an integral role in our programme of good governance, transparency and zero tolerance towards wrongdoing on and also off the pitch, which we presented [ Read More ]
The FIFA Executive Committee on 21 October 2011 ratified the bids from two US media companies for the TV rights for the period 2015-2022. Fox (including radio rights) and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo Media (Spanish-language, excluding radio rights) have acquired the exclusive US media rights to FIFA World Cup football across all platforms from 2015 to 2022, [ Read More ]
FIFA would like to express its satisfaction with the decision taken by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to withdraw its appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding the decision not to sanction five Mexican footballers who tested positive for clenbuterol during the CONCACAF Gold Cup in June 2011. This announcement by WADA [ Read More ]
The FIFA Emergency Committee has directed the Swiss Football Association (SFA) to immediately execute the decision of the Swiss Football League’s appeal body which became final and binding after the club FC Sion/Olympique des Alpes SA (OLA) withdrew its appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The decision rejected the initial request of [ Read More ]