Category: FOOTBALL

Kuala Lumpur: AFC has announced the First shortlist announced of contenders for the coveted AFC Player of the Year award for this year. Korea Republic and Iran have three players each in the list while Asian champions Japan have two. Iraq, UAE, China, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria have a player each in the…

Official FIFA Awards: Golden Ball, Golden Scorer, Golden Glove and Fair Play FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Ravenna/Italy 2011 Official FIFA Awards Adidas Golden Ball Award Award Player Team / No adidas Golden Ball Ilya LEONOV RUS / 8 adidas Silver Ball ANDRE BRA / 9 adidas Bronze Ball Frank VELASQUEZ SLV / 11 This…

More than a year has passed since the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ was played in South Africa, but the social legacy is still very much alive. Join us on 24 September 2011 at the opening of the 5th Football for Hope Centre in Maseru, Lesotho (Old Police Training Grounds, Behind the Palace of Justice, Old…

UEFA President Michel Platini has completed a busy trip to Austria which featured a 100-cap award, a meeting with the sports minister and a tour of the ÖFB centre for women’s football. A presentation to an Austrian football legend, a meeting with Austria’s sports minister and first-hand discovery of women’s football development were among the highlights…

UEFA launches new award for players reaching 100 national team appearances UEFA has today launched a new award to commemorate players from UEFA’s 53 member associations who have made 100 or more appearances for their national team. The proposal was approved at the UEFA Executive Committee at its last meeting in Nyon in June. 

UEFA and EU conference on safety and security scheduled for Vienna Thursday 8 September sees the tenth joint UEFA-EU Conference on Security take place at the NH hotel in Vienna, Austria. The annual meeting will be attended by representatives of European police and governmental agencies, security officers of UEFA and national football associations, security officers…

Football Sport, On Thursday, 1 September, an official press conference took place ahead of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2011 in Ravenna/Italy, involving FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke, FIFA Executive Committee member and Chairman of the FIFA Organising Committee Ricardo Terra Teixeira, President of the Italian FA (FIGC) Carlo…

FIFA Football, The 2014 World Cup is heading to Brazil. In less than 4 years, the greatest football spectacle of them all will be heading to the country that introduced the notion of the beautiful game. For the first time in 64 years, football’s biggest event will grace Brazil’s shores and a feast of football…