Gianni Infantino has been re-elected for another term as FIFA president after running unopposed. The 52-year-old has been in charge of football’s governing body since 2016. Getty Infantino will be at the helm for another four years With no competition, his re-election was a formality – and it was confirmed during the 73rd Congress in … Read more
Gianni Infantino told an audience in Rwanda that he was inspired in his campaign to become Fifa president by the way the country recovered from its bloody civil war and genocide in 1994. Infantino was re-elected as Fifa president on Thursday without a vote, as there were no other candidates, at the organisation’s Congress in … Read more
Gianni Infantino has been re-elected for another term as FIFA president after running unopposed. The 52-year-old has been in charge of world football’s governing body since 2016. Getty Infantino will be at the helm for another four years With no competition, his re-election was a formality – and it was confirmed during the 73rd Congress … Read more
Chelsea will be handed a guaranteed place in the newly-formatted FIFA Club World Cup in 2025. A FIFA council meeting in Rwanda on Tuesday will see radical changes to the World Cup from 2026 as well as a new 32-team Club World Cup tournament. Chelsea lifted the FIFA Club World Cup defeating Palmeiras 2-1 The … Read more
FIFA is set to confirm radical changes ahead of the 2026 World Cup with 40 more games to be played. The decision will be approved at a meeting of the FIFA Council on Tuesday to be held in Rwanda, The Athletic reports. FIFA President Gianno Infantino will head the annual congress this week Plans had … Read more
FIFA’s head of refereeing Pierluigi Collina insists Manchester United’s 7-0 drubbing at Liverpool was wrongly cut short. Referee Andy Madley only added three minutes of stoppage time at the end of the second-half, despite six goals, ten substitutions, and a number of VAR reviews. Getty Objectively, there should have been more than three minutes added … Read more
You really have to take a few steps back to best take in the full majesty of Fifa’s lack of foresight. They looked at the controversies over the hosting of the men’s World Cup in Qatar. They looked at the demographic of the women’s game and its audience. They understood the issues with the rights … Read more
West Ham defender Kurt Happy Zouma has revealed how his rather interesting names came about. The 11-cap France international is in his tenth season in English football, having initially been signed by Chelsea from Saint-Etienne. Getty Zouma is a household name in England A regular for David Moyes Hammers, and a Champions League winner with … Read more
For the first time ever, the NWSL will be featured in FIFA. The 2023 edition of the video game comes out on March 15 and will include all 12 NWSL teams. The announcement comes after the NWSL recently teamed up with EA Sports in a new partnership between the two sides. NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman … Read more
With a range of London clubs playing on Saturday, Gianni Infantino wasn’t short of options for a game to go and see whilst in the capital. But despite Premier League title contenders Arsenal playing at the Emirates and Chelsea facing Leeds at Stamford Bridge, the FIFA president opted to watch some Championship action instead… specifically, … Read more