FIFA

FIFA

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  Match-fixing probe: 680 suspicious games worldwide

  Organized crime gangs have fixed or tried to fix hundreds of soccer matches around the world in recent years, including World Cup and European ... 

• Football panel to consider changing offside law

  FIFA's rules-making panel will consider changing how the offside law is interpreted at its annual meeting next month to clarify when attackers can ... 

• Anouma presents appeals case to CAS

  FIFA executive committee member Jacques Anouma presented his case on Friday at sports' highest court to be accepted as a Confederation of African ... 

• Blatter: FIFA reforms must apply worldwide

  Cleaning up world football depends on all 209 member countries and six continental confederations following FIFA's example, Sepp Blatter said Friday. 

• Argentine, Italian clubs fined over transfer deal

  FIFA has fined Argentine club Independiente and Italian club Genoa for breaking transfer rules in a blocked deal for defender Julian Velazquez. 

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  AP Interview: Altidore says racism shames everyone

  United States striker Jozy Altidore refuses to bear a grudge against fans who showered him with racist abuse during a match this week, saying: "We all ... 

• Lazio fined $190K for fans' racist abuse

  Lazio has avoided being ordered by UEFA to play a Europa League match in an empty stadium despite a third conviction for racist abuse by fans this ... 

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  Rummenigge: Football in cold, snow 'not logical'

  A scheduling change away from winter football could be coming to Europe, according to Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. Rummenigge, who ... 

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  Platini defends voting for Qatar World Cup bid

  FIFA vice president Michel Platini has defended his decision to vote for Qatar as 2022 World Cup host after a magazine in his native France on Tuesday ... 

• FIFA suspends Peru international after failed test

  FIFA has provisionally suspended a Peru international for 30 days for failing a doping test after a World Cup qualifier. The player, whose name was ... 

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  WCup organizers cancel event after fire tragedy

  FIFA and local organizers canceled an event celebrating 500 days to go until the 2014 World Cup because of a devastating nightclub fire that killed ... 

• FIFA prosecutor to deliver scandal file in March

  FIFA ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia should submit his report on a decade-old World Cup kickbacks scandal by March, and will later focus on ... 

• UEFA calls for 12-year limit for FIFA president

  European football leaders want to let the next FIFA president have 12 years in office — four years more than FIFA's top anti-corruption adviser ... 

• Anouma gets court date for African election appeal

  FIFA executive committee member Jacques Anouma will press his case at sports' highest court next week to be approved as a candidate to lead African ... 

• Rival Cyprus FAs closer to reunification deal

  Officials from both sides of ethnically split Cyprus say they are closer to a deal that would reunify rival football organizations and allow breakaway ... 

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  Fight against match-fixing 'will never finish'

  The fight against match-fixing in football "will never finish," Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said Thursday at a two-day conference on ... 

• Spain heads unchanged top 10 in FIFA rankings

  World and European champion Spain leads an unchanged top 10 teams in FIFA's latest world rankings. Ecuador at No. 12 and Haiti at No. 38 both climbed ... 

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  FIFA warns of 'long' fight against match-fixing

  FIFA security director Ralf Mutschke warns that football has "a long way to go" to defeat match-fixing by organized crime gangs. FIFA was involved in ... 

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  FA tries to shift focus from woes in 150th year

  The English Football Association kicked off its 150th anniversary celebrations with a star-studded event Wednesday, striving to shift the focus from ... 

• Caribbean official drops FIFA appeal at CAS

  Disgraced official Patrick John has dropped his appeal against a two-year FIFA ban in the Caribbean bribery case involving Mohamed bin Hammam. 

• Blatter raises fresh doubts about summer 2022 WCup

  FIFA President Sepp Blatter raised fresh doubts about the safety of playing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in summertime, saying supporters could ... 

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  Brazil: Indigenous squatters resist eviction

  Police in riot gear surrounded a settlement of indigenous people next to Rio de Janeiro's storied Maracana stadium on Saturday, preparing to evict ... 

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  FIFA prosecutor Garcia kept 'busier than expected'

  FIFA prosecutor Michael Garcia has been kept busier than he expected trying to clean up world football — and his workload will probably increase after ... 

• Anouma loses 1st half of African election appeal

  FIFA executive committee member Jacques Anouma has failed to get an interim ruling to become a Confederation of African Football presidential ... 

• FIFA punishes Bulgaria, Hungary for racial abuse

  FIFA denounced "abhorrent, shameful" racist and anti-Semitic abuse by Bulgaria and Hungary fans at opposing teams on Tuesday, and ordered each team ...