Football

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, a leading member of the reform committee at football’s global governing body Fifa, has suggested that up to 40 per cent of the reform proposals tabled by ethics and compliance chief Domenico Scala could be rejected.

Chinese manufacturing business Rastar Group has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in LaLiga football club Espanyol in a move that is set to further increase Chinese investment in the Spanish top-tier competition.

Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter has claimed that Uefa president Michel Platini backed out of a “gentleman’s agreement” to support the US bid to host the 2022 World Cup after coming under pressure from former France President Nicolas Sarkozy to back Qatar.

According to the TASS news agency, the Russian Sports Ministry has been forced to make cuts to the national team ice hockey tournament due to an economic slump that is placing pressure on the government’s budget.

Owen Evans spoke to Hicham El-Amrani, general secretary of the Confederation of African Football about building bridges with his home country and his billion dollar vision for African football.

Amid the chaos of Italian football, there is opportunity for those organisations that follow the rules.

David Nakhid has hit out after his bid to enter the running for the presidency of Fifa, football’s global governing body, was scuppered by a spoiled vote from US Virgin Islands Football Association president Hillaren Frederick.

Two British expats are on a mission to make America care about soccer, and they hope BlazerCon will make it happen. Owen Evans reports.

Spanish LaLiga football club Atlético Madrid has recorded a net profit of €13.1m ($14.9m) for the 2014-15 season.

Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter has suggested that an agreement was in place for the 2018 World Cup to be awarded to Russia before a vote on the destination for the national team football tournament took place.

Organisers of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have warned officials in the country’s capital of Brasília that if they do not sign a contract by the middle of November to host football events during next year’s sporting spectacle, the city will be stripped of its seven scheduled matches.

Fifa has today (Wednesday) confirmed that seven candidatures have been received for the presidency of world football’s governing body, with former Trinidad and Tobago international midfielder David Nakhid the omission from the officials who were thought to have entered applications by Monday’s deadline.

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish football, has revealed that it is to debut a new fan experience initiative in Doha, Qatar.

Franz Beckenbauer, who led Germany’s local organising committee for football’s 2006 World Cup in the country, has admitted that a transfer of €6.7m ($7.4m) to the sport’s global governing body Fifa in 2005 was a mistake.

Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino and Liberian Football Association president Musa Bility became the latest officials to formally declare applications for the Fifa presidency on Monday afternoon, ahead of today’s deadline for submissions to become the next leader of world football’s governing body.

South African businessman and former political prisoner Tokyo Sexwale, along with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) leader Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, have become the latest officials to formally join the race to become the next president of Fifa, football’s world governing body.