The Goa Football Association under the subject of ‘Proposed Road Map for football India which will lead to forced demotion of I League teams’ has written a letter to world football governing body FIFA president Gianni Infantino head of his India visit to Goa on Tuesday, September 27 to highlight …
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From 19-23 September 72 referees & assistant referees from across Europe gathered at the Home of FIFA to attend a five-day referee seminar for prospective UEFA candidates for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ and FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™. The seminar was the third in a series of …
Read More »Former Dutch football international Marco van Basten has been appointed as FIFA Chief Officer for Technical Development. In his new capacity, van Basten will be heading up all technical areas ranging from football technology innovation to refereeing. The Ajax and AC Milan icon and former coach of Ajax Amsterdam, AZ …
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The Bureau of the FIFA Council has appointed PwC Switzerland as the new statutory auditors of FIFA. FIFA President Gianni Infantino welcomed the decision of the Bureau of the FIFA Council as a further important step in the reform process underway at FIFA and an example of how the organisation …
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Earlier in the day, the latest FIFA ‘Coca Cola’ Men’s World Ranking were released by the world football governing body and in it India moved up four places to 148th position behind Yemen and ahead of Afghanistan. India have 205 points, five more than last month and also gain a …
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The adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert has banned Jeffrey Webb, former President of CONCACAF, Vice-President of FIFA and President of the Cayman Islands Football Association, for life from all football-related activities on a national and international level. The ban comes into force immediately. The …
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The deputy chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee, Djimbaraye Bourngar, has opened formal proceedings against Joseph Blatter, former President of FIFA; Jérôme Valcke, former Secretary General of FIFA; and Markus Kattner, formerActing Secretary General and Director of Finance & Corporate Services. The investigatory chamber will investigate …
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The FIFA Appeal Committee has decided to reject the appeals lodged by Spanish clubs Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid and to confirm in their entirety the decisions rendered by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee in the respective cases relating to the protection of minors. As such, both clubs are to …
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The adjudicatory chamber of the independent FIFA Ethics Committee, under its deputy chairman Alan Sullivan, has opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against Helmut Sandrock, former general secretary of the German Football Association (DFB) and tournament director of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, based on the …
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The All India Football Federation is conducting another FIFA Youth Coaching Course, this time in Kolkata. The course kicked off yesterday, September 5 at the Howrah Municipal Stadium in Kolkata and it’ll continue until Friday, September 9. Frederick Roy Millar, a veteran coach from the UK, is the course instructor …
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