Graham Poll will learn his World Cup fate either later on Friday or on Saturday following his blunder in handing three yellow cards.
I don't think that India should dream about being at world level even after 100 years, said Mohamed bin Hammam.
The only Indian inductee in the Asian Football Federation's Hall of Fame, former captain Bhaichung Bhutia dedicated the rare honour to the country's footballers who continue to 'struggle against all odds to prove themselves every single day'.
Sepp Blatter said FIFA might consider imposing lifetime bans on any player caught taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Their meeting at FIFA headquarters came two days after officials in Curitiba, one of the 12 World Cup venues, were given until February 18 to prove they can get their stadium ready or risk exclusion from the tournament.
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia will make a 45-minute presentation to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.\n\n
FIFA's decision came after 11th hour talks before Tuesday's draw for the 2007 Asian Cup finals.
FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said he will raise the England captain's deliberate booking against Wales with the Football Association.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes future World Cup finals should not be decided by penalties and said changes could be in place for the showpiece tournament in South Africa in four years.
The smartball is fitted with a tiny microchip designed to help a referee decide whether the ball has crossed the line completely.
The Somali FA chief was ordered to pay Blatter 10,000 Swiss francs ($7,519) compensation.
Russian referee Valentin Ivanov was given a resounding vote of no confidence by players, coaches and even FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
FIFA's executive committee has voted to allow publication of former ethics investigator Michael Garcia's investigation into the bidding process for the 2018/2022 World Cups, president Sepp Blatter said in a statement on Friday.
FIFA assured that technology to determine whether the ball has crossed the goal line would be ready for World Cup final.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes top national leagues should be cut to 16 teams to give players more rest.
Betting in football will be at the top of the agenda at next month's meeting of FIFA's executive committee.
Brazilian great Pele will join FIFA president Sepp Blatter among the 3,500 spectators at the December 5 event.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said two African nations could co-host the 2010 football event.
FIFA announced that soccer players would be allowed to make two moves in a single calendar year.
Frozen balls containing team names have been used to rig European soccer's club competition draws although the ruse was never used at FIFA, the former chief of the game's world governing body, Sepp Blatter, has said.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said that all matches at the 2006 World Cup in Germany would be held on natural pitches.
Banned former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he feels the soccer World Cup underway in Moscow is a little bit like "my World Cup" because he has been so well received on his visit to Moscow.
Blatter suggested that games could be decided by a penalty shoot-out in the case of a draw.
The FIFA president accused Europe's richest clubs of despicable behaviour and engaging in social and economic rape as they scour the developing world for talent.
FIFA did not agree with World Anti-Doping Association demands for a mandatory two-year suspension in all cases.
Football's ruling body plans to impose a three-and-a-half-week break for players ahead of the next World Cup finals in 2006.
A proposal to increase the number of teams, from 32 to 36, in the 2006 World Cup finals was opposed.
AIFF president Praful Patel was elected uncontested as Asian Football Confederation's Vice President of the SAFF Region at the AFC Congress held in Bahrain.
Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan said on Tuesday he would stand for the presidency of world soccer's governing body FIFA later this year.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said by rotating the World Cup it will go to a South American nation in 2014.
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