World football's governing body, FIFA, could face a huge financial shortfall due to the ongoing lack of sponsors ahead of next year's World Cup in Russia. The current financial malaise is a product of the corruption crisis that has dogged...

Ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Draw scheduled for the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on December 1, tickets have gone on sale and it seems to be the hottest one in town. A total of 742,760 tickets were allocated...

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped nine places in the latest FIFA ranking released earlier on Thursday. In the ranking for the month of November, Nigeria drop down from 41st to 50th position with 671 points thereby moving three...

The big hammer of world football's governing body, FIFA, has fallen on three former Football Association (FA) presidents. Former president of the Guam football association Richard Lai, his Nicaraguan counterpart Julio Rocha and former Venezuelan football association president Rafael Esquivel...

Seven World Cup legends will assist former England international striker Gary Lineker for the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup Draw in Russia. According to world football's governing body, FIFA, World Cup greats such as Fabio Cannavaro, Carles Puyol, Cafu, Laurent...

World football governing body, FIFA, have released a 36-man list of referees ahead of next year's World Cup in Russia and Nigerian referees are conspicuously missing on the list in what is the perfect example to illustrate how the...

Legendary World Cup striker Gary Lineker has been picked to conduct the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final Draw scheduled for the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow on December 1. Lineker, who won the adidas Golden Boot at Mexico 1986 and...

In just over a decade, Italian football has suffered a lot of political, sporting, economic and socio-cultural hardships. The Calciopoli scandal of 2006 sent shock waves all over the Italian peninsula as three of the four biggest clubs in...

South American nation Peru became the 32nd and final nation to qualify for next year's World Cup in Russia earlier on Thursday following their 2-0 aggregate win over New Zealand meaning attention will now shift to the draw ceremony...

Peru have secured the final place at next year's FIFA World Cup following their 2-0 win over 'dogged' New Zealand in Lima in what was the second leg of their intercontinental playoff tie. Both sides played out a goalless draw...