By David Gold
October 7 – MATCH Hospitality has continued its appointment of official 2014 FIFA World Cup Hospitality Programme sales agents, by giving Traffic Sports and Grupo Águia the rights to sell the packages in the host country Brazil.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Britain’s Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today admitted that England’s inability to win the 2018 World Cup bid was “the biggest single failure” of his reign.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 5 – Ten months after winning the bid to stage the 2022 tournament, Qatar’s World Cup chief today admitted that the tiny Gulf state’s historic victory had been wounded by the constant negative publicity that accompanied the greatest upset in bidding history.
By David Gold
October 5 – The chief executive of England’s failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup, Andy Anson, has mocked FIFA’s response to a string of corruption allegations this year and says that he does not have faith in their ability to reform themselves.
By David Gold
October 4 – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has reassured FIFA that the country would stick to the commitments it made when it won the right to host the 2014 World Cup.
By David Gold
October 3 – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet with FIFA President Sepp Blatter today in Brussels as she looks to discuss a disagreement over a bill in the country’s Congress that could limit the revenues of world football’s governing body.
By David Gold
October 2 – The Qatar Football Association has confirmed that it will be hosting Iraq’s home qualifying games for the London 2012 Olympic Games and 2014 World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 2 – Ricardo Teixeira, controversial president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been released from hospital following two days of observation after complaining of abdominal pain.
By David Gold
September 30 – Seven years before games get underway at the first ever World Cup to be held in Russia, Myanmar have become the first country eliminated from the competition after violence erupted during a Brazil 2014 Asian qualifying clash with Oman in July.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 30 – Ricardo Teixeira, controversial president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been admitted to hospital with abdominal pain.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 26 – Ricardo Teixeira, head of the Organising Committee for the 2014 World Cup who only two months ago described English journalists as corrupt, is reportedly to be investigated for alleged money laundering and tax crimes.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 25 – FIFA’s under-fire Executive Committee member Worawi Makudi has failed to follow up his threat to sue former English Football Association chairman Lord Triesman over allegations of corruption involving last December’s 2018 and 2022 World Cup ballots.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 22 – UEFA President Michel Platini has repeated his concern about the 2022 World Cup in Qatar being staged at the usual time in mid-summer because of the searing heat and humidity of the Gulf region.
By David Gold
September 18 – Tesoro Tours has been appointed as the exclusive sales agent of hospitality programmes in Colombia for the 2014 World Cup, taking place in Brazil.
By David Gold
September 15 – Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup have been hit after a Federal Court judge ordered work on a new third terminal in São Paulo’s main international airport, Guarulhos, to stop.