An outbreak of the coronavirus in Beijing has further "complicated" plans to start the postponed Chinese Super League (CSL), a medical expert advising the country's soccer association said. The CSL was scheduled to start in February but has been postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
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News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
FIFA has given Sudan an August 15 deadline to rerun their Football Association presidential election or face suspension from international soccer.
All elite soccer matches in England, including the Premier League, were suspended until April 4 on Friday due to the coronavirus pandemic, English soccer's governing bodies said. The decision to suspend all football activity in the country had been jointly taken by the Premier League, the FA, the EFL and the Women's Super League (WSL), it added.
Manchester Utd's Fred receives racist abuse after defeat by Liverpool.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona told a local newspaper on Monday his "chapter had ended," although the country's local football association and a close friend informed he had not resigned.
The delay in installation of floodlights at the Nehru stadium in Margao, Goa, has forced the state's football association to ask the All Indian Football Federation to shift Dempo's AFC Cup quarter-final to another venue. This is a big blow to India's National League champions, who are scheduled to play their AFC Cup home match against Singapore's Home United on September 16.
Hockey coach Ramesh Parameswaran applies for Dronacharya Award
The collection included the shirt Messi wore during the first half of the final against France in Qatar.
State officials "not happy" after meeting with CoA
Sepp Blatter could still perform a U-turn on his promise to stand down as FIFA president, a former adviser said on Monday, while FIFA did not directly deny the possibility.
'I will win the election. The Congress and BJP are fighting for second place.'
The visitors beat Bangalore Rugby Football Club 27-3 in the final to win the 72nd Orange All India and South Asia Rugby Tournament
Playing in a FIFA World Cup remains a pipe dream for India
England and Scotland are planning to defy a FIFA ban on players wearing poppies during their World Cup qualifier on November 11, their Football Associations said on Wednesday.
Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the organising committee for the 2006 soccer World Cup rejected claims that a slush fund had been set up to buy votes and bring the tournament to Germany back in 2000.
Simon, who did not specify if he was referring to local organisers or FIFA in his reference to the tournament director, said the other six nations then decided to "show solidarity" and not wear it.
Diego Maradona's future as coach of Argentina will be decided at a meeting of football association bosses on Tuesday, a spokesman for the organisation has said.
Diego Maradona will decide whether to stay on as Argentina coach after a meeting next week, the head of the country's football association said on Tuesday.
Stimac had said he would need at least a four-week camp to do well in the Asian Cup while the All India Football Federation (AIFF) top brass had indicated that his demand would be difficult to meet as the clubs may not agree to release their players for such a long period in the midst of the domestic season.
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Iraq faces being kicked out of world soccer after its football association was disbanded, the sport's governing body FIFA said on Tuesday. Iraq has been given 72 hours to restore the IFA or the matter will be referred to the FIFA Emergency Committee which would almost certainly result in suspension.
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Egypt striker Mohamed Salah was voted as the African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football's awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday.
Probe had uncovered a bid by Ibrahim Kargbo, then a player at Willem II Tilburg, to fix the outcome of a league match against FC Utrecht in August 2009 in co-operation with convicted Singaporean fraudster Wilson Raj Perumal
The Danish Football Association (DBU) will not set aside a secure area of the national stadium in Copenhagen for groups of Serbian fans when Serbia and Denmark meets in an Euro 2016 Group I qualifier on June 13.
The decision comes after the game's rule-making body IFAB last month gave the go-ahead for trials of additional 'concussion subs'.
England's Football Association, which has supported Platini's candidature, said on Friday it was among a number of other groups who had called for a FIFA crisis meeting where the election would be discussed.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said full back Luke Shaw used "his body with my brain" during his side's 1-1 draw with Everton on Tuesday and has urged the England international to develop a better understanding of the game.
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India's football federation (AIFF) has been reminded by FIFA that it cannot be influenced by legal or political inference from inside the country, the global soccer body said.
US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination becoming the first Indian-American to win the nomination from a major political party, and chose Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday.
The management board of the Polish Football Association, which is responsible for co-hosting the European Championship in 2012, was suspended by Poland's sports ministry on Monday.
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English soccer will be suspended until at least April 30 due to the coronavirus crisis, but the current season can be extended indefinitely, the English game's governing bodies said in a joint statement on Thursday.
Two Swiss government ministers have backed national team players Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri after their controversial goal celebrations in Friday's 2-1 World Cup win over Serbia.
'Football is in full solidarity with all the people affected in Ukraine. Both Presidents hope that the situation in Ukraine will improve significantly and rapidly so that football can again be a vector for unity and peace.'
Diego Maradona's club from relegation was dubbed another Hand of God moment on Tuesday, but the former striker said the divine intervention he wished for was to beat the coronavirus pandemic.
