Zurich: Lionel Messi is in the running for a third consecutive FIFA World Player of the Year award after being selected on Tuesday among the 23 candidates for the 2011 prize. Argentina forward Messi and seven of his teammates at European and Spanish champions Barcelona, including Xavi and Andres Iniesta whom the Argentine surprisingly beat last year, are on the Ballon d'Or shortlist, while archrivals Real Madrid have five players...
03:26 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: India jumped three places to be placed at 160th in the latest FIFA rankings, issued on Wednesday. India have 115 points in their kitty. In last month's list, the country was ranked 163rd, just two places better than India's all-time lowest - the country was ranked 165th in March 2007. India are now thirteen places above neighbours Pakistan (173), 17 places ahead of Sri Lanka (177) and two...
07:59 PM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: Argentina's 3-1 victory over Nigeria in a Fifa friendly at Dhaka on Tuesday once again brought to light the domination that the two time world champions have exercised over the Super Eagles in the last couple of decades. Captain Lionel Messi whose corner kick led to Argentina's solitary goal win over Venezuela on Saturday once again led from front as his side galloped to their fourth win over...
02:46 AM, Sep 07, 2011
Rio de Janeiro: The 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil will start on June 12 with the final on July 13, FIFA's secretary general Jerome Valcke said on Wednesday. Valcke said the exact match and venue schedule will be announced after FIFA's executive committee meets on October 20-21. "We are still working on the match schedules and venues and these will be ratified by the World Cup organising committee and...
10:18 AM, Jul 28, 2011
Port of Spain: Less than one year after Spain beat Netherlands to win the World Cup, the circus starts again on Wednesday although the opening match of the 2014 qualifying tournment will cause barely a ripple. Tiny Montserrat, who have won only two international matches, are scheduled to face Belize on neutral territory in a match which will be a far cry from last year's game at Soccer City, watched...
10:08 AM, Jun 14, 2011
Women football players in Afghanistan are facing worse obstacles from daily disapproval to anonymous death threats. ...
10:40 AM, Jun 10, 2011
London: FIFA vice-president Julio Grondona, who is also president of the Argentine football association, is staring at a huge embarrassment after the world governing body's match-fixing unit opened a probe into his homeland's friendly defeat in Nigeria. This comes three days after Grondona launched a scathing attack on England's Football Association (FA), who wanted the FIFA congress to postpone elections for Sepp Blatter's fourth term in office as the FIFA...
05:45 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New York: Corporate sponsors Coca-Cola Co and German sportswear maker Adidas on Monday expressed concern about allegations of corruption within FIFA, soccer's governing body, and warned that it could harm the game. The two companies are longtime partners with FIFA, providing money, goods and services to support its events worldwide -- most notably the World Cup -- in return for global brand recognition. "The current allegations being raised are distressing...
09:45 AM, May 31, 2011
Rio de Janeiro: The corruption scandal embroiling soccer's world governing body FIFA highlights the fact the sport should be run by former players, Brazil's 1970 World Cup-winning captain Carlos Alberto Torres said on Monday. "There should be a general change, there are so many good people who could take office," Carlos Alberto told Reuters before he named former French international Michel Platini and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer as former players who...
09:39 AM, May 31, 2011
Zurich: Lionel Messi's mesmerizing performances for Barcelona outweighed a disappointing World Cup, ensuring the Argentina forward was named the world's best player of 2010. Messi won the FIFA award for a second straight year on Monday, finishing ahead of Barcelona teammates Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez. "It's a very special day for me," Messi said through a translator on receiving the award at a gala ceremony in FIFA's home city....
08:40 AM, Jan 11, 2011
Los Angeles: The FIFA World Cup in South Africa has been voted as the top news story of 2010 ahead of the iPad launch and the WikiLeaks. In an analysis by Global Language Monitor, a group that studies word usage and trends, the top five news stories are the World Cup, the iPad Launch, the rise of China, US healthcare reform, and WikiLeaks. The Tea Party, the US political movement...
08:06 PM, Dec 19, 2010
Dubai: It became an obvious choice for a Qatari couple to name their daughter 'Fifa' as she was born on the same day the Gulf country won the bid to host the FIFA World Cup. "My husband Nayef Al Shimmari and I decided six months ago to name our daughter Dana," the mother said. "Last Thursday when I was in labour I heard that Qatar was picked ahead of many...
04:54 PM, Dec 07, 2010
The hosting of 2018 FIFA World Cup was awarded to Russia while Qatar was named host for 2022 but reports from England allege that the bidding was rigged. ...
10:30 PM, Dec 03, 2010
Tech Toyz look at the biggest sporting spectacle in the world: the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. ...
07:59 PM, Jul 10, 2010
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02:29 PM, Jul 10, 2010
Octopus Paul has been correctly predicting the outcome of FIFA World Cup matches. ...
11:52 PM, Jul 08, 2010
Organizers promise that the closing ceremony will be quite a spectacle ...
04:01 PM, Jul 08, 2010
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