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Gianni Infantino faces emergency talks in Rabat as his FIFA presidency crumbles. The Swiss administrator summoned senior football executives to Morocco following the collapse of his plan to privatise World Cup commercial rights. His reckless bid to sell a 20 per cent stake to private investors for $4.2bn collapsed within days. Deep anger across major…
Barely minutes after booking their place in a second straight World Cup final, Argentina’s players turned a night of sporting triumph into a diplomatic flashpoint, unfurling a banner in Atlanta that reasserted their country’s claim to the Falkland Islands and drew the reigning world champions into the path of a possible FIFA sanction. The banner,…
The exit of Cristiano Ronaldo and tournament co-hosts the United States has knocked the bottom out of the resale market for the 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals, with prices for Friday’s fixture in the Los Angeles area falling by almost 60 per cent in a matter of hours. According to Forbes, the cheapest resale…
Football’s governing body is facing one of its most awkward credibility tests in years, and the man raising the loudest alarm is one who once sat in its highest office. Former FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter waded into the storm on Monday over the decision to lift United States forward Folarin Balogun’s red card…
Folarin Balogun will lead the line for the United States against Belgium in Seattle on Monday night, days after a red card had seemed certain to keep him out, following an intervention that has drawn FIFA into an unusual and contested episode at the 2026 World Cup. The forward’s reinstatement, confirmed by FIFA on…
United States forward Folarin Balogun, a player Nigeria once courted for its own national team, has been cleared to feature in Monday’s World Cup Round of 16 tie against Belgium after football’s governing body suspended the red card that had ruled him out, a ruling that drew swift and public praise from President Donald Trump….
Haiti have been forced to redesign their World Cup shirt only days before their tournament opener against Scotland, after FIFA banned a depiction of a war scene from the kit. An illustration of the Battle of Vertieres in 1803, which secured Haiti’s independence, with the Haitian flag had been embedded on the shirts worn by…
The widow of late Portugal forward Diogo Jota has urged Scotland captain Andrew Robertson to carry her husband’s World Cup dream with him as he prepares to lead his country at football’s biggest tournament. Jota died aged 28 in a car crash last July, alongside his brother Andre Silva, after helping Portugal secure qualification…
Iran’s football federation says the United States has revoked the ticket allocation reserved for its supporters at the 2026 World Cup, accusing the co-host of shutting out Iranian fans from all three of the team’s group stage matches as a bitter diplomatic standoff bleeds into the tournament. The Iranian Football Federation said the United…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing the prospect of being shut out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup if its national team fails to comply with a strict 21 day isolation directive issued by United States health and tournament authorities ahead of the squad’s scheduled June 11 arrival in Houston, Texas. The…
