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Campaigners call for Kofi Annan to take charge of FIFA reform.
The English champions with income of $313.8 million in the 2002/03 season are comfortably ahead of Juventus and AC Milan.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
South Korea's faint hopes of reaching the last 16 of the World Cup have faded further with news that captain Ki Sung-yueng will miss their final group game against Germany.
World soccer's governing body FIFA on Tuesday lodged a criminal complaint over the "possible misconduct of individual persons" in connection with the awarding of hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
The World champions stayed ahead of France at the top of the world soccer rankings published on Wednesday.
Suspended world soccer chief Sepp Blatter was named 'Swiss of the Year' on Thursday by a weekly magazine in his native Switzerland, on the same day he appeared before a FIFA ethics committee to face questioning in a corruption scandal.
FIFA claimed the newspaper made libellous comments against the organisation and its president Sepp Blatter.
The Somali FA chief was ordered to pay Blatter 10,000 Swiss francs ($7,519) compensation.
The International Automobile Federation (FIA) is in no danger of suffering the sort of corruption scandal currently engulfing world soccer governing body FIFA, its president Jean Todt said on Saturday.
Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, a central figure in world soccer's deepening scandal, has vowed to tell investigators all he knows about corruption within the sport's governing body.
The date of May 27 will go down as one of the worst days in the history of world soccer's governing body FIFA, former presidential candidate Luis Figo said on Thursday.
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Bolton manager Sam Allardyce has called on world soccer's governing body FIFA to scrap new guidelines on the offside rule.
Real Mallorca's leading striker failed to appear at training this week because of a call-up by Cameroon for a pre-Olympic tournament.
It will receive compensation from AXA after a German court ruled the insurance company's cancellation of its 2002 World Cup policy was unlawful.
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.
Indian market is very important for Samsung.
FIFA did not agree with World Anti-Doping Association demands for a mandatory two-year suspension in all cases.
The former South Africa President said hosting the 2010 soccer World Cup would be a perfect gift for the country as it celebrates 10 years of democracy.
FIFA faces more embarrassment after a member of its financial watchdog was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering in the Cayman Islands.
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.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
But the club is likely to appeal, contending that Nigerian recruit Isa Musah was suspended on grounds of indiscipline.
FIFA's Ethics Committee has banned Wolfgang Niersbach, the former president of the German Football Association, for one year for failing to report potential misconduct surrounding the award of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany.
Former Newcastle United striker Michael Chopra is ready to surrender his British passport to represent the country of his origin, India, and realise his dream of playing senior-level international soccer.
The Brazilian is penalised for pushing Israeli referee Alon Yefet in a 2-1 defeat to Portugal.
A proposal to increase the number of teams, from 32 to 36, in the 2006 World Cup finals was opposed.
It switched places with France, which is now in the third place in the latest rankings published on Wednesday.
World soccer's governing body called for a life ban for some doping offences.
This time it is for non-payment of Liberian striker George Ekeh's dues.
World Soccer magazine named Brazil team of the year. Guus Hiddink was named for the manager's award.
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