International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
FIFA Agrees to Change World Cup Start Date
At a flashy ceremony on Nov. 21 last year, some of Qatar’s most senior officials, including the Gulf nation’s prime minister, joined the FIFA president Gianni Infantino, top soccer executives and invited guests for a celebration. They gathered on Doha’s corniche, the sweeping promenade that hugs the city’s shimmering waterfront, to unveil an ornate countdown […]
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FIFA Picks First Women Officials for Men’s World Cup
The Qatar World Cup was always going to be a World Cup of firsts. The first time sport’s most-watched event is to be played in the Middle East. The first time it will be played in November and December. And now it may also be the first men’s World Cup to have a game refereed […]
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FIFA and EA Sports End Video Game Partnership
Those games, though, will not offer the same sort of match simulations devotees of the EA Sports version have come to know. For that, consumers will be asked to wait until 2024, when FIFA says it will launch a rival soccer simulation game. “I can assure you that the only authentic, real game that has […]
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What to Know About 2022 World Cup Travel to Qatar
The most avidly followed sports event on earth, the FIFA World Cup, returns this fall — another chance to find out if what’s often been said about soccer is true: That 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and the Germans always win. At the last World Cup, in 2018, the Germans didn’t win. […]
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Soccer’s Richest Clubs Sidestep UEFA Salary Cap in New Cost Controls
The biggest reforms of European soccer’s financial controls in a generation will stop short of creating U.S.-style salary caps to restrain teams’ spending, and instead will enact rules that are unlikely to stop the continent’s richest clubs from buying up the best talent and winning the most coveted trophies. UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, has […]
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FIFA Proposes Penalties for Russia but No Ban, Yet
Under mounting pressure to take action against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, the leadership of world soccer’s governing body on Sunday agreed on a range of measures that would take effect for Russia’s crucial World Cup qualifying playoff next month. But the proposals — a ban on Russia’s name, flag and anthem and a […]
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How Sanctions on Russia Could Affect Champions League and Top Soccer Clubs
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has exposed fissures in European soccer that are threatening multimillion-dollar sponsorship agreements and have led to calls to move the biggest game on this season’s calendar, the Champions League final, out of its scheduled host city, St. Petersburg. UEFA, the governing body for soccer in Europe and the organizer of the […]
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Inside the FIFA Legends, Questions of Power and Process
It was at the end of that meeting, the woman said, as she and Macedo left a conference room, that Macedo cupped her buttocks with one hand and then leaned in and whispered a provocative remark about her body. “For me,” the woman said, “that was one of the worst days.” There were no witnesses […]
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Who Does Afghanistan’s Soccer Team Represent Now?
BELEK, Turkey — Anoush Dastgir may be the hardest-working man in soccer, but by Saturday, his job had taken a toll. Dastgir, the coach of Afghanistan’s men’s national team, was sitting in an empty restaurant at the hotel where he and his team were preparing for an exhibition match against Indonesia. It was 11 p.m., […]
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