Morocco jeopardised Belgium’s World Cup hopes as Abdelhamid Sabiri and Zakaria Aboukhlal’s late goals secured a surprise 2-0 victory in Doha on Sunday. Belgium, third in Russia four years ago, could have qualified for the last 16 with victory but instead produced another insipid display after their fortunate opening win over Canada. Substitute Sabiri was […]
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The former coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr has dragged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before FIFA and is awaiting a ruling on a $1m compensation claim for unfair dismissal, BBC Africa reports. Kokomansion recalls that Rohr was fired in December, weeks for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The […]
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Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, has suspended Kenya and Zimbabwe for government interference, according to Gianni Infantino, the president of the world football governing body. Infantino made this known at a press conference on Thursday. Kenya’s Ministry of Sports in November 2021, suspended the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) and appointed a caretaker committee to […]
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Bayern Munich’s striker Robert Lewandowski retained FIFA’s top men’s player title Monday at “The Best” of 2021 ceremony as Barcelona captain Alexia Putellas collected the award for best women’s player. Lewandowski 38, who set a Bundesliga goal record last season, won the trophy for the second time, edging Argentine Lionel Messi of Paris Saint-Germain and Egyptian Mohamed […]
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World football governing body, FIFA plans to introduce a series of measures to protect pregnant footballers including mandatory maternity leave “of at least 14 weeks”, the sport’s world governing body announced on Thursday. “We want to see more women play football but in the same time have a family,” Sarai Bareman, FIFA’s chief women’s football […]
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Former Super Eagles coach, Siasia has just 14 days remains to appeal his FIFA ban, as he needs N36m to appeal the ban. Siasia made this known on Wednesday, according to him if he does not pay the his appeal will be off. The former Eagles player, lamented that failure to secure the money before […]
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Liverpool FC goalkeeper, Allison Becker, has been announced as the FIFA 2019 men’s keeper of the year. Becker won both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup, including the Copa America with Brazil this summer. He bagged three awards, Champions league goalkeeper of the season, Premier League goalkeeper golden glove and Copa America […]
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Barcelona and Argentine captain, Lionel Messi has been named the FIFA 2019 world best player. He was announced on Monday at Teatro Alla Scala ahead of Liverpool Defender, Virgil Van Dijk and Juventus striker , Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi won the 2018/2019, UEFA Champions League highest goal scorer and also won the LA Liga player award […]
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Nigeria’s Super Eagles have moved up 12 spots in the July FIFA ranking, to place 33rd in the world after winning bronze at the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations tournament. In the ranking table released by the world football governing body on Thursday, Nigeria garnered 1, 481 points as against 1, 433 it had in […]
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World football governing body, FIFA, has announced that the next edition of the FIFA World Cup, which would be held in Qatar would feature 32 countries, and not 48 being proposed. This was made known in a four-paragraph statement released on the soccer body’s website on Wednesday evening. FIFA, headed by Gianni Infantino has been […]
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