FIFA President Gianni Infantino is not free from legal battles yet despite the fact that FIFA ethics committee has cleared him of the criminal charges against him. Earlier today, December 10, a Swiss special prosecutor, Stefan Keller, confirmed that the 50-year-old football administrator has been dragged before Swiss federal prosecutor’s office in order to be […]
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Rainbow flags will be welcomed at the 2022 FIFA World Cup which will be hosted by Qatar between November and December 2022. This development is seen as a great boost to the movement of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community that has been advocating against discrimination against the LGBT+ community. The LGBT+ have […]
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World football governing body, FIFA, has released the names of those nominated for BEST FIFA Football Awards 2020. The list of the male category of the best footballer of the year contains the usual suspects, Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo of Juventus. The award which started in 2016, recognizes the best footballers, […]
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The advisory panel of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) has declared support for the use of additional substitutions also known as concussion substitutions. Recently, the English Football Association and the Premier League agreed to commence trials for concussion substitutions in the 2021-2022 season. The rule is being worked on by IFAB and it is […]
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AC Milan striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has called for an investigation into the alleged use of his name and face without permission by Gaming company, EA Sports in their Fifa soccer games series over the years. The 39-year-old striker took to his Twitter page on Monday to question why his likeness is being used in the […]
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World football governing body, FIFA, has banned the president of the Haiti Football Association, Yves Jean-Bart, for life over the sexual abuse of female footballers in his country. In April 2020, the Guardian published an investigation carried out on Jean-Bart alleging that the 73-year-old football administrator was sexually abusing female footballers in Haiti. The news […]
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The world football governing body, FIFA, has announced that the annual Club World Cup will take place from 1 to 11 February 2020 in Qatar instead of December. The tournament had to be postponed because most continental football associations were not able to conclude their Champions League campaigns for the 2019-2020 season on time due […]
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Have you ever wondered how clubs can claim wages from Fifa when players get injured on international duties? The world football governing body has an insurance policy tagged the FIFA Club Protection Programme (CPP) which cater to the injury risk of players who have been invited to play for their national teams. Based on this […]
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The English Football Association and the Premier League will commence trials for concussion substitutes in the 2021-2022 season. The concussion substitute rule is a new rule that FIFA‘s International Football Association Board (IfAB) is currently working on. The rule stipulates that permanent substitution can be made if a player suffers a head injury during a […]
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World football governing body, FIFA is set to introduce new regulations to checkmate the activities of football agents, Fifa‘s director of football regulatory James Kitching announced on Thursday. Recall that since 2015, the world football governing body has deregulated the activities of football agents which means that the agents can operate in line with the […]
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