Ghana FA Boss Kwesi Nyantakyi is set to rock the world with his dazzling football skills as FIFA Council XI take on UEFA XI in a ceremonial game in Bahrain. The game wraps up activities of the first ever FIFA Congress under the presidency of Gianni Infantino. Nyantakyi who was famously referred to as Wa … Read more
Ghana FA Boss Kwesi Nyantakyi is set to rock the world with his dazzling football skills as FIFA Council XI take on UEFA XI in a ceremonial game in Bahrain. The game wraps up activities of the first ever FIFA Congress under the presidency of Gianni Infantino. Nyantakyi who was famously referred to as Wa … Read more
“Hundreds” of cases of alleged wrongdoing – some involving senior officials – were being looked into by Fifa’s ethics committee before its main investigator and judge were ousted, the two have claimed. Football’s world governing announced on Tuesday it will not reappoint investigator Cornel Borbely and ethics adjudicator Hans-Joachim Eckert. At a news conference on … Read more
Italian football authorities may face disciplinary action over the treatment of Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari. Muntari, 32, was sent off after leaving the field claiming he was racially abused during a Serie A game. He was initially banned for one game but had this overturned by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). “We have a committee … Read more
FIFA said on Tuesday it was “premature” to take any final decision on the controversial issue of Israeli clubs in the West Bank, according to a statement. The communique came after a five-hour long FIFA Council meeting in Bahrain, ahead of the issue being scheduled for discussion by its annual Congress, which takes place in … Read more
Italian football authorities may face disciplinary action over the treatment of Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari. Muntari, 32, was sent off after leaving the field claiming he was racially abused during a Serie A game. He was initially banned for one game but had this overturned by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). “We have a committee … Read more
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has decried the “idiots” who directed monkey chants at Sulley Muntari and offered to speak to the Ghanaian soccer player who was initially banned for protesting against racism. Muntari said he was treated like a “criminal” after being shown two yellow cards when he walked off the field during a Serie … Read more
Any attempt by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pressure FIFA over the issue of Israeli clubs in the West Bank was unprecedented, Palestinian football chief Jibril Rajoub said Monday. Rajoub, speaking after the Asian Football Confederation’s congress in Bahrain, was responding to media reports that Netanyahu had personally telephoned FIFA president Gianni Infantino. The … Read more
Two years on from the corruption crisis which consumed FIFA, football’s governing body meets for its latest annual Congress in Bahrain this week still far from free of suspicion. It was May 2015 in Switzerland, as delegates prepared for that year’s Congress, when plain-clothes officers pounced and arrested scores of FIFA officials. The ramifications of … Read more
High-ranking Fifa official Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has resigned a day after denying claims linking him to a fraud case. Following the release of court documents, Kuwaiti Sheikh Ahmad was linked in media reports to Richard Lai, the Fifa audit and compliance committee member who was banned for bribery. Lai admitted taking $950,000 (£735,000) in … Read more
World sport powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah announced his resignation Sunday from the FIFA council, saying he did not want to be a distraction while fighting corruption allegations. Aside from serving on FIFA’s top body, the Kuwaiti heads the influential Association of National Olympic Committees, the Olympic Council of Asia and other senior sport administration … Read more
High-ranking Fifa official Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has resigned a day after denying claims linking him to a fraud case. Following the release of court documents, Kuwaiti Sheikh Ahmad was linked in media reports to Richard Lai, the Fifa audit and compliance committee member who was banned for bribery. Lai admitted taking $950,000 (£735,000) in … Read more
German police have detained a suspect with “Islamist links” following a bomb attack on the bus of the Borussia Dortmund football team. Prosecutors also said one of the three explosives used in Tuesday evening’s attack contained metal strips. Two letters claiming responsibility for the attack were being investigated, they said. Prosecutors are treating the blasts … Read more
South Korean billionaire Chung Mong-Joon said Thursday he would appeal to the international sports tribunal over his five-year ban by FIFA, accusing its ethics committee of acting like “hitmen” for former leader Sepp Blatter. Chung, a former FIFA vice-president and presidential candidate, and a scion of the Hyundai family, was banned by FIFA’s ethics committee … Read more
The daughter of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of England, Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne will be in Ghana from today, Monday the 3rd, to Tuesday the 4th of April, 2017. News about Princess Anne’s Ghana Visit was first disclosed in a statement from the Buckingham Palace, and subsequently by the British High Commission in … Read more
Australia’s A-League will become the first top-level domestic football league in the world to implement the video assistant referee system, officials said on Monday. After six months of training and lower-tier live trials, Football Federation Australia’s director of referees Ben Wilson said he was confident most teething issues had been resolved. “We´ve come across a … Read more
The 2026 World Cup should be played with 48 teams, in a format that remains to be defined. Former Cameroonian international Samuel Eto’o told Jeune Afrique on the subject. On 9 and 10 January 2017 in Zürich, on the occasion of the FIFA Council meeting, Gianni Infantino, the president of the organization, will present his … Read more
FIFA will now return its focus to the game, for fans and players throughout the world Thousands of pages of documents and exhibits have been sent by Fifa to justice authorities in Switzerland and the United States after the completion of a 22-month investigation into football’s governing body. During the course of FIFA’s 22-month investigation, … Read more
Football’s governing body Fifa has passed on further evidence to Swiss and United States authorities as it completed its internal investigation into alleged corruption. It has been co-operating with law enforcement since May 2015 when Fifa members were arrested in Zurich. “We have now completed that [22-month] investigation and handed the evidence over to the … Read more
FIFA announced Friday that it has completed the internal investigation it began in June 2015 after the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced investigations into allegations of criminal misconduct, bribery and corruption in world football. During the course of FIFA’s 22-month investigation, more than … Read more