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The Swiss lawyer heading up a committee charged with reforming the structure and management of world soccer body FIFA says major changes to the organization's voting structure and imposing term limits on executive committee members will be difficult to achieve in the short term.
The three-nation United States-led bid to host the 2026 World Cup outscored its rival Morocco as both passed an inspection of their facilities and infrastructure, global soccer body FIFA said on Friday.
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Former France captain Zinedine Zidane will appear before FIFA's disciplinary committee in Zurich on Thursday to give his account of the incident in which he head-butted an opponent in the World Cup final.
Justine Henin will face Frenchwoman Tatiana Golovin in the final of the Zurich Open.
Following the Under-17 World Cup in 2017, India would bid for both the 2018 Club World Cup and the 2020 Under-20 football World Cup.
Young mridangam artist Kuzhalmannam G Ramakrishnan of Kerala on Saturday set a new Guinness record in percussion instruments by playing the mridangam non-stop for over 84 hours.
Patty Schnyder's hopes of qualifying for the WTA Championship in Madrid were dealt a blow when she was beaten 6-2, 7-5 by Slovak Daniela Hantuchova in the first round of the Zurich Open.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter was relieved of his International Olympic Committee ex officio membership on Monday.
Sri Lankan Airlines offers special fares to London, Paris, Zurich, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Tokyo, Maldives and Malaysia from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram.
The 23-year-old Jamaican destroyed his rivals in Zurich to equal the record of 9.77 seconds he shares with American Justin Gatlin.
The football World Cup will not be halted by fears of bird flu in Germany, FIFA vice-president Julio Grondona said.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter visited Qatar's emir on Sunday and said that while progress has been made in improving workers' rights in the 2022 World Cup host nation, more still needed to be done.
FIFA may propose making it mandatory for clubs of national leagues to have their own academy and retain nursery teams.
India's Taj Mahal, China's Great Wall, the Stonehenge monoliths in England and the desert city of Petra in Jordan are among 21 candidate sites to be named the new seven wonders of the world, organisers said Tuesday.
Amelie Mauresmo received an easy passage into the final of the Advanta Championships in Philadelphia on Saturday when Maria Sharapova was forced out of the event with a sore shoulder.
FIFA said on Wednesday it had fired General Secretary Jerome Valcke, once one of the global soccer body's most powerful figures, amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales.
Arsenal had scored 10 goals in two matches against BATE Borisov in the same competition in 2017 but never looked like being as prolific in the freezing temperatures of Belarus.
World soccer's governing body FIFA has hired a former New York prosecutor to represent it as senior officials face bribery and corruption charges in a US court, a person familiar with the matter said.
US sports television network ESPN has invited the five candidates in FIFA's presidential election to participate in a debate on the future of the crisis-hit governing body for world football.
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"There is no allegation in the charging documents that any Nike employee was aware of or knowingly participated in any bribery or kickback scheme," the company said.
There are still bumps in the road ahead for Swiss banks.
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.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter is a mere servant at the service of football, he said on Friday as he re-stated his intention to run for a fifth mandate in next May's election.
The ethics committee of world soccer governing body FIFA said on Saturday it had completed its investigation into the conduct of FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini and requested sanctions against them.
She hit out at her home Swiss crowd for supporting opponent Flavia Pennetta.
Her manager Lisa Chaffey said the Australian has been forced to take a break due to a persistent virus that is affecting her balance.
Davenport saved two match points to beat Hantuchova and reach the quarter-finals of the Zurich Open.
Jet Airways on Thursday announced the appointment of Wolfgang Prock-Schauer as chief executive officer and Peter Luethi as chief operating officer with immediate effect.
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