This is a brief update on a few matters, including the discussions concerning the release of African players from Europe and other countries for the FIFA International week. As you may be aware, after discussions with the French Football Federation and French Government, we eventually made progress and the French …
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I just love to watch the 442oons and their funny take on football and its matches! In the 442oons x OneFootball special is a parody about Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Leo Messi tapped-up on International duty.
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The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Joseph S. Blatter, former FIFA President, and Jérôme Valcke, former FIFA Secretary General, guilty of various violations of the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE). The investigations into Messrs Blatter and Valcke covered various charges, in particular concerning bonus payments in …
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FIFA has announced the appointment of Kenny Jean-Marie as its new Chief Member Associations Officer. Kenny Jean-Marie joined FIFA in 2020 as Director of Member Associations Services, with responsibility for overseeing services to strengthen the development of FIFA’s 211 member associations through the Forward Programme. He notably worked closely with …
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The Home of FIFA in Zurich will host the draws for the Olympic Football Tournaments on April 21 at 10:00 CET. The countdown to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is on again. The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced the postponement of the Games until 2021, but enthusiasm and excitement for …
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Meeting by videoconference, today the FIFA Council conferred to the FIFA Congress the decision to award FIFA Women’s World Cup hosting rights. Until now, the decision has been taken by the FIFA Council, most recently in June 2020 when the hosting rights for the 2023 edition were awarded to Australia …
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FIFA, in collaboration with the United Nations on Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has today launched the Global Integrity Programme – a comprehensive international programme aimed at providing all 211 member associations with enhanced knowledge and tools to fight and prevent match manipulation. In line with FIFA’s overall vision of making football …
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FIFA has confirmed that Véron Mosengo-Omba will leave his role as Chief Officer of the FIFA member associations (MAs) division with immediate effect to take on the position of CAF General Secretary. Mr Mosengo-Omba initially joined FIFA in 2016 as Chief Member Associations Officer with responsibility for Africa and the …
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has stressed the importance of “team spirit” to project African football to the top of the world in his address to the 43rd CAF Ordinary and Elective General Assembly that took place today in Rabat. “We know the values of football, but the most important value …
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Following a process of close consultation with Asia’s Member Associations, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today confirmed the centralised venues for the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ and AFC Asian Cup China 2023™ matches scheduled to take place from 31 May to June 15, 2021. …
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