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FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon will decide this week whether to run for the presidency of world soccer's governing body, a spokeswoman for the Korean Football Association (KFA) has said.

One of the men expected to challenge Sepp Blatter for supremacy within FIFA will decide this week whether to mount a challenge.

FIFA's internal ad hoc audit committee, set up to look into FIFA finances, must present its results no later than April 30 - less than a month before the FIFA presidential elections in Seoul.

South Korea's Cheju island, one of the venues for this summer's World Cup venue, wants to host Mike Tyson's heavyweight showdown with world champion Lennox Lewis.

Germany will host the Confederations Cup in 2005 as a dress rehearsal before staging the World Cup finals the following year, the German Football Association (DFB) said yesterday.

A suspected North Korean spy ship, sunk by the Japanese coastguard at the end of last year, may have been carrying weapons aimed at disrupting this summer's World Cup in Japan and South Korea, according to Agence France-Presse.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter's reputation hit a crisis point today after further accusations in The Daily Mail that he is hiding the truth about the financial crisis facing his organisation following the collapse of FIFA's marketing arm ISL.

All of the 64 games of this summer's World Cup in Japan and South Korea will be broadcast, even if German media giant Kirch fails to resolve its current debt problems, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has expressed his confidence in security measures for this year's World Cup at a FIFA workshop for the 32 competing nations.

East Asian football associations are poised to form a regional governing body in the next week in a bid to increase their influence within the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Asian sources have said.

Co-hosts South Korea and Japan will be allowed to sell beer at World Cup stadia this summer, FIFA has said.

Teams travelling to this summer's World Cup in Japan and South Korea may not be allowed to travel on the same flights to and from the Far East or during the tournament because it would pose too much of a risk to insurance companies.

A four-day FIFA workshop, involving the 32 finalists for the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, began over the weekend in Tokyo with the aim of clarifying World Cup procedures.

South Korea's World Cup chief, Chung Mong-Joon, has slammed FIFA president Sepp Blatter over his handling of FIFA finances.

South Korean FIFA World Cup organisers have admitted that a quarter of tickets allocated for public sale in the country are still unsold.

Avaya, the provider of technology at this summer's World Cup in Japan and South Korea, has signed an additional sponsorship and technology deal with the US Soccer Federation.