March 20 – When Canadian National team boss, Jesse Marsch threw a political grenade at SoFi Stadium two weeks ago in the direction of US President, Donald Trump, he embraced sports and politics.
March 19 – Defending champions Botafogo have been drawn against Estudiantes de La Plata, Universidad de Chile and Carabobo in the group stages of the 2025 Copa Libertadores.
March 20 – As United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) coach, Maurico Pochettino, embarks on his first international tournament in the Concacaf Nations League, he’s already got a headache or three after losing a trio of highly influential players to injury ahead of his team’s semi-final versus Panama on Thursday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
November 13 – The Thai owners of surprise 2016 English Premier League champions Leicester City are reportedly being sued for £323 million over money owed to their government.
By Samindra Kunti
November 13 – The Indian Supreme Court has stayed the Delhi High Court order on Praful Patel’s election, offering the AIFF president relief and bestowing commissioner SY Quraishi with a new mandate. The Supreme Court appointed Quraishi, and former India football captain Bhaskar Ganguly, as ombudsmen to formulate the AIFF constitution within eight weeks.
November 13 – The career of former France captain Patrice Evra has been plunged into disgrace with the veteran defender thrown out of European competition by UEFA until the end of June next year for his infamous kick on one of his own Marseille fans in a Europa League tie at Guimaraes earlier this month.
November 13 – The sexual harassment scandal pervading public life has spilled over into football with Hope Solo, the best-known goalkeeper in the women’s game, making accusations against none other than former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
November 13 – CONCACAF, the confederation for North, Central America and the Caribbean, will hold its third annual Women’s Football Day on Saturday, November 18.
By Paul Nicholson
November 11 – Chelsea’s development of Stamford Bridge into a new-build 60,000 capacity stadium has been pushed back by at least three years.
By Paul Nicholson
November 10 – The stand-off in the blockade of Qatar by its Gulf neighbours has inevitably dragged the hosting of the 2022 World Cup into the geo-political mix with news that the United Arab Emirates has a plan to attack Qatar’s currency and devalue its economy. Alongside the financial warfare sits a PR offensive designed to destroy confidence in the Qatari economy and change the hosting status of 2022.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 10 – FIFA has been urged by its own advisory board on human rights to step up monitoring risks to those working on construction sites at World Cup venues in Russia and Qatar.
By Paul Nicholson
November 10 – Amazon and Manchester City have now officially announced a ‘multi-part’ documentary series that will go behind the scenes at the club and will air exclusively on Prime Video next year across 200 territories worldwide.
By Mark Baber
November 10 – Adidas has revealed the official match ball for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, paying homage to the first-ever Adidas World Cup ball.
November 10 – Amidst growing debate over whether the formal introduction of video technology would prove counter-productive after of a string of poor judgements, Northern Ireland are ironically crying foul having seen their World Cup hopes take a dive because of two crucial decisions that almost certainly would have been overturned by the system.
November 10 – One of the fiercest critics of Qatar’s record on workers rights has welcomed steps made by the Qataris to end the ‘kafala’ employment system in the country and says other Gulf leaders should copy Qatar’s lead.
November 10 – A former deputy governor of St Petersburg has admitted to his involvement in an embezzlement scheme related to the construction of the city’s World Cup stadium.
November 10 – Several hundred Hong Kong fans once again defied a Chinese law against disrespecting the national anthem when they booed the anthem at a match on Thursday.
November 10 – Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven have extended their partnership with iFOREX as an Official Sponsor of the club for the 2017/18 season.