Blatter wants under-21 teams in Olympic football tournament
FEBRUARY 1 – FIFA PRESIDENT Sepp Blatter (pictured) wants to lower the age limit for the Olympic soccer tournament and ban the addition of three over-23 players, he said today.
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Canadians want Tottenham fan Nash to run basketball and football teams
OCTOBER 22 – A CALL has started for Steve Nash (pictured), one of the country’s leading basketball players who has British parents, to oversee Canada’s preparations for the 2012 Olympics in basketball and football.
Warner renews attack on attitude of English football towards Caribbean
INFLUENTIAL FIFA member Jack Warner (pictured), who could hold the key to England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup, has repeated his attack on English football’s negative view about football in the Caribbean.
FIFA deal ensures football’s participation in 2012
FIFA today agreed to adopt the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) revised drug testing code, thus avoiding another potential row over football’s future in the Olympics.