The match between two of Arab football’s top teams will serve as test run for the FIFA World Cup 2022 starting in November. Top football clubs from Saudi Arabia and Egypt will face off in the Lusail Super Cup at the Lusail Stadium on Friday, with the match between Al Hilal SFC and Zamalek FC ...
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Qatar World Cup 2022: How football became a game-changer for the Middle East
Football is shaping national identities and regional geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa, and Gulf states' huge investments in European clubs are key to their soft-power strategies.
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FIFA finally suspends PFF but still no resolution in sight
LAHORE: A motorcyclist rides past the building of Pakistan Football Federation headquarters on Wednesday.—AFP KARACHI: The ban finally came, more than two months after FIFA had warned it would. But it doesn’t really solve the problems in the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF). Rather, it has only exacerbated them. The global football governing body announced on...
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Lewandowski beats Messi and Ronaldo to FIFA Best Player Award
ZURICH: Robert Lewandowski won the biggest individual prize of his career Thursday, showing that a forward not named Messi or Ronaldo can be voted the world’s best football player. The Poland captain was named the FIFA Best Men’s Player for 2020 after his 55-goal season lifted Bayern Munich to a sweep of international and domestic...
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Sialkot-made footballs to be used in FIFA World Cup 2022 – Pakistan Observer
Vice President The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and industry Mr.Qasim Malik said that the Al Rihla football, The Pride For Pakistan is produced in Sialkot, would be used in the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. Talking to the media on Sunday, the SCCI leader said a Sialkot-based leading exports firm produced the footballs which...
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Ex-FIFA president Blatter, footballer Platini cleared of fraud in Swiss trial – Pakistan Observer
Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France footballing legend Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Friday after a seven-year investigation during which they were booted out of the sport. A judge said the pair’s account of a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ for FIFA to pay Platini 2 million Swiss francs...
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Ex-FIFA president Blatter, footballer Platini cleared of fraud in Swiss trial
Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France footballing legend Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Friday after a seven-year investigation during which they were booted out of the sport. A judge said the pair’s account of a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ for FIFA to pay Platini 2 million Swiss francs...
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Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini acquitted in FIFA trial
BELLINZONA: Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the chiefs of world and European football, were acquitted Friday over a suspected fraudulent payment that shook the sport and torpedoed their time at the top. Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona rejected the prosecution’s request for a suspended prison sentence of a year...
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FIFA lifts Pakistan’s suspension, Normalisation Committee’s mandate extended
FIFA, however, warned that any interference in the matters of the NC could result in the suspension being reimposed.
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Semi-automated offside tech approved by FIFA for 2022 World Cup
LAUSANNE: Semi-automated offside technology will be used at this year’s World Cup, promising decisions that are more accurate and a lot quicker, world football’s governing body FIFA said on Friday. In what can be considered an extraordinary development in the officiating of the game, technology will be able to resolve contentious offside calls with a...
