At the same time as the draw of the group stage of the European Champions League, Erling Haaland, the striker of the Manchester City football team, won the award for the best player in Europe last season.
A multi-sports event for beach and water sports, the second edition of the World Beach Games is scheduled to take place on the Indonesian island between August 5 and August 12.
The Best of FIFA ceremony was held yesterday evening (Monday, February 27) and Lionel Messi, the Argentine superstar, was chosen as the best football player of 2022.
France was taking “as many precautions as possible” to stop the spread of a virus threatening preparations for their World Cup final showdown with Argentina, Didier Deschamps said.
Olivier Giroud sent France into a World Cup semi-final with Morocco as his late header after Aurelien Tchouameni’s opener clinched a gutsy 2-1 win over England.
At the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said that, the event brings together people of all nationalities and beliefs.
Police said that at least 129 people were killed and around 180 injured at a soccer match in Indonesia after panicked fans were trampled and crushed trying to flee during a riot.
Former Afghan football official Mohammad Hanif Sediqi Rustam has been banned from the sport for five years and fined 10,000 Swiss francs after being found guilty by FIFA's ethics committee of violations relating to the abuse of female players.
In its most significant stance yet to combat sexual abuse of women players, FIFA has banned for life one of the most notorious culprits, former Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) president Keramuudin Karim (pictured), and also fined him one million Swiss francs.
Allegations of sexual abuse of members of Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team by sports officials have resulted in missed paychecks after sponsors pulled out, taunts and entreaties from parents to their daughters to quit playing.
The Afghanistan Football Federation president, Keramuudin Karim, has denied allegations he sexually and physically abused members of the women’s national team.