Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Nigeria has dropped by five spots in the October edition of the FIFA /Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday. According to the October ranking on FIFA’s website, Nigeria now has 632 points as against 642 points it garnered in September, ranking 42nd in […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow FIFA has imposed a worldwide life ban on Yaroslav Dmitriev, a Russian player implicated in fixing Estonian top-division matches. FIFA says it expelled Dmitriev from all football activities and the Estonian Football Association bans for 12 other players up to six months during […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Frenchman Jerome Champagne has confirmed his plans to challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA Presidency. The 56-year-old former diplomat had worked for FIFA for 11 years as an executive before leaving in 2010. “I have just written to the FIFA Ad-hoc Electoral Committee […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow FIFA has offered January and November in 2022 as alternative kickoff dates for the World Cup in Qatar. FIFA said it presented the two options on Monday when its consultation group first met to seek ways to avoid playing in the desert heat […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow In a move to forestall an impending FIFA ban on Nigerian football, Christopher Giwa, the factional leader of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, on Monday, relinquished his position as the president of the nation’s football governing body. In an interview with the British […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The crisis witnessed in Nigerian football industry in recent weeks is a reflection of the state of the country’s football By ANTHONY AKAEZE It was the fourth time within one month that the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, was forced to intervene […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sepp Blatter, president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, has confirmed he would seek re-election for another term into the highest office in the World’s football governing body. Blatter, who has spent four terms of four years each at the helms […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The world football governing body, FIFA, has set Monday, September 8 as deadline for Nigeria’s football administration to work according to set down statutes or be suspended from international football. A FIFA letter sent to the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday said, “Following […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Following the sack of football leaders by the government after the Super Eagles crashed out of the 2014 World Cup, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, FIFA has suspended Nigeria from all international competitions. The suspension, excluding Nigerian teams and officials from international […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has refuted the claim by Wilson Raj Perumal, a convicted Singaporean match-fixer, that he helped the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2010 Federation International de Football Association, FIFA, World Cup finals in South Africa. Perumal claimed to […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow To achieve its primary objective of delivering quality broadcast to Nigerians during the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Optima Sports Management International, OSMI, has commenced its stakeholder engagement programme with a workshop for its broadcast partners from the Broadcasting Organisations of […] More
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