The official draw which will reveal group phase teams at the 2023 FIFA Under-20 World Cup will hold on Friday in Zurich, Switzerland. The Bureau of the FIFA Council made this known on Monday while confirming the decision to have Argentina as hosts of the competition scheduled for May...
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Uruguay’s Fernando Muslera and Jose Maria Gimenez were hit with four-match bans by FIFA on Friday. While Diego Godin and Edinson Cavani were suspended for a game each after they confronted the referee following their World Cup match against Ghana. FIFA launched proceedings against the players who angrily harangued...
The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) will work with the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Bauchi to address the problem of witchcraft accusations and witch persecution in the country. Abuses linked to witchcraft beliefs have ravaged many communities without adequate institutional response. This unfortunate situation will soon...
Claim : There is a claim circulating on social media that FIFA would keep Pele’s feet in the Museum. Full text: The post reads, “BREAKING: FIFA Will Keep Pele’s Feet in the Museum. Pele’s Family has given the permission.” FIFA is the international governing body of association football founded...
Morocco continued their stunning run at the Qatar World Cup on Tuesday when they upset former champions Spain 3-0 on penalty kicks to reach the quarter-finals for the first time. Goalkeeper Yassine Bounou saved penalty kicks from Carlos Soler and Sergio Busquets, in between Pablo Sarabia’s kick against the...
Argentina moved into the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Australia which set up a last-eight clash with the Netherlands. Lionel Messi scored his first ever goal in a World Cup knockout round tie in the 35th minute and Julian Alvarez added Argentina’s...
Former champions Spain got their 2022 World Cup off to a pulsating start with a record 7-0 rout of Costa Rica on Wednesday. A Ferran Torres brace and a sumptuous strike from Gavi sent them past the 100-goal mark in football’s showpiece event in Doha, Qatar. The European giants...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Saturday that World Cup fans can survive for three hours a day without beer after sales were banned around stadiums. “I think personally if for three hours a day you cannot drink a beer, you will survive,” he told his opening press conference in...
World Cup host Qatar, is pressuring FIFA to stop the sale of beer at the eight World Cup stadiums, according to reports. The sale of alcohol is strictly controlled in Qatar, but it is due to be available in the area immediately outside match venues and fan zones, as...
Incumbent Gianni Infantino is set for a third term as president of football’s world governing body FIFA. The organisation said on Thursday that Infantino was the only candidate for next year’s election. The vote takes place on March 16 in the Rwandan capital city Kigali. The 52-year-old Swiss has...
FIFA has launched a new service to crack down on hate speech and discrimination online during the World Cup, the sport’s governing body announced. The service will protect more than 830 World Cup players from abuse on social media during the Qatar tournament. “FIFA is committed to provide the...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have slipped by one spot to be ranked 32nd in the world in the October world ranking by global football governing body FIFA. In the ranking table released on Thursday, the Nigerian senior men’s national team garnered 1498.47 points in September as against the...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Nigeria’s senior men national football team, Super Eagles will confront the Senior National Team of Costa Rica in a prestigious international friendly in the country’s capital, San Jose on 9th November. NFF’s FIFA Match Agent, Jairo Pachon of Eurodata Sport told thenff.com on Thursday, that the three-time...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – President of the world football-ruling body, FIFA, Mr. Gianni Infantino has congratulated the new President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau and members of his new Board, following the Elective General Assembly of the NFF that took place in Benin City...
Former Super Eagles Captain, Sunday Oliseh, has been appointed as FIFA’s Technical Expert for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Oliseh who also previously coached the Nigerian senior football team will work with former Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger, and German legend Jurgen Klinnsman. Taking to social media to announce the development,...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The outgoing President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick has charged frontline candidates for this month’s NFF presidential election to conduct rancour-free, exemplary electioneering campaigns even as they seek the highest football-administration seat in the land. Pinnick, also a FIFA Council...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Mr Football Foundation has been lunched in Calabar, the Cross River State capital through a book lunch, chronicling the life and time of the first Secretary General of the Nigerian Football Association, (NFF) and the first executive committee member of FIFA and CAF....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has given clarification of Nigeria’s U-20 Women’s team, Falconets overstaying for 24 hours at Istanbul following their exit at the Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. Falconets were enroute Abuja after bowing out of the tournament on Sunday, following...
President Muhammadu Buhari says football remains the number one sport in Nigeria and a national asset. According to the president, his administration will resist any attempt to undermine its development. Buhari stated this when he received the 10-year Football Development Masterplan submitted by the Minister of Youth and Sports...
FIFA has suspended the Indian Football Federation meaning that the country will not currently be able to host the under-17 Women’s World Cup in October. Football’s world governing body said its council unanimously decided to suspend the All India Football Federation “due to undue influence from third parties, which...