The winners of the 2022 Best FIFA Awards were announced on Monday night. Lionel Messi and Alexia Putellas went home with the top two individual awards at the ceremony in Paris. Messi was named Men’s player of 2022, ahead of his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid striker …
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FIFA has confirmed that Canada, Mexico, and the USA have all received automatic spots at the 2026 World Cup. The three nations will jointly host the next edition of the global showpiece. The tournament is set to have an expanded field of 48 teams Under the new rules, there would …
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FIFA on Friday announced three finalists for the Puskás Award 2022. The world’s football governing body disclosed this in a tweet via its Twitter handle. The winner will be selected by an international jury comprising a panel of FIFA Legends and registered fans from across the world on FIFA’s official …
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced plans on Friday for a 32-team Club World Cup from 2025, despite reported opposition from Europe’s biggest clubs. An expansion of the competition has long been a pet project of Infantino’s. A 24-team event, featuring eight sides from Europe, was planned for 2021 in China …
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has accused the Western countries of “hypocrisy” and slammed the criticism towards World Cup hosts Qatar during his opening speech ahead of the tournament on Saturday. “For what we Europeans have been doing around the world in the last 3,000 years we should be apologising for …
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Former Super Falcons star and assistant coach of Heartland Queens, Stella Mbachu, in this interview with ANTHONY NLEBEM, shares her views on the fall of Falcons in Africa, lesbianism in women’s football, racism, equal pay for footballers and more. Excerpts The Super Falcons are fast losing their reputation as Africa’s number one …
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The World’s Football Governing Body (FIFA) has suspended India’s Football Federation over “undue influence from third parties”. The suspension by FIFA threatens the country’s hosting of the Under-17 Women World Cup, in October. Recall that India’s highest court had disbanded the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in May and appointed a …
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World football governing body, FIFA, has celebrated Asisat Oshoala for finishing as top scorer in the Primera Iberdrola (Spanish women’s first division). Oshoala concluded the season with 20 goals and three assists in 19 games despite a three month injury-induced layoff. Geyse Ferreira of Real Madrid also scored 20 goals …
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President, Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, on Monday said the federation might appeal FIFA’s ruling to pay former Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr $377,879.46 (N156,819,975) in compensation after the federation parted ways with the Franco-German last December. The world football governing body ordered the NFF to pay Rohr the money …
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FIFA Orders NFF To Pay Rohr’s Outstanding Salaries Over ‘Breach Of Contract’ Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) would cough at least a princely sum of $1,045,000 USD (about N 433,873,550.00) to German coach Gernot Rohr following his unceremonious dismissal last December on the eve of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations …
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