Platini to Run For FIFA Presidency

MICHEL Platini, president of the Union of European Football Associations, UEFA, intends to run for the presidency of the International Federation of Association of Football, FIFA, in February, next year. …

Blatter to Miss Women’s World Cup Final

SEPP Blatter, Fifa president, will not travel to Canada for the final of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, July 5. The Fifa boss who cited “personal reasons” for not going, said he had planned to attend the final match in Vancouver, despite Jerome Valcke, Fifa general secretary, pulling out of the …

Corruption Scandal Rocks FIFA

THE world of football was thrown into tumult on Wednesday, May 27, following the arrest of seven officials of the FIFA, the world football body. The Swiss police arrested the FIFA officials in a Zurich hotel as part of a United States investigation into tens of millions of dollars of bribes. …

Okagbare Battles Great Jamaicans

BLESSING Okagbare is billed to battle with two of Jamaica’s greatest ever women sprinters in a field bustling with a glittering array of world and Olympic champions at the 2015 Shanghai Diamond League meeting on May 17. The IAAF Diamond League meeting organisers who announced this …

Keshi’s Controversial Contract

CONTROVERSY has continued to dog the appointment of a new coach for the Nigerian Super Eagles. On Monday, March 2, an agent working for Stephen Keshi, former coach of the Super Eagles, was quoted as saying the new deal being offered to Keshi was a “slave contract” and that the former Eagles’ …