One of African football‘s most powerful figures has been banned from the sport for life for breaking bribery and corruption rules. Ex-Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi also broke conflict of interest rules, Fifa said. Football’s world governing body launched an investigation after Nyantakyi was pictured taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter. Fifa […]
Footballers’ union FIFPro has published four “vital criteria” it believes the next FIFA president must meet if the game’s governing body is to repair its reputation according to sky sports. The global body has said Sepp Blatter’s replacement must meet certain standards if football is to “climb out of the toxic pit which continues to […]
Sepp Blatter wins the fifth consecutive term as FIFA’s president on Friday after his opponent, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan withdrew from the race. Mr. Blatter received 133 votes, just short of the two-thirds majority required for the victory while Prince Ali received 73 on the first ballot. This necessitated a second ballot which required only a simple majority, […]
The ‘crazy’ Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) leaders are at it again after being cautioned by the FIFA Development Officer, Ashford Mamelodi over forming parallel football associations to manage Uganda soccer. Mamelodi and FIFA in general are bitter that FUFA under its president Lawrence Mulindwa have gone ahead and created FUFA PREMIER LEAGUE LTD […]
Even ifUgandalost one of its football referees on pitch last week, FIFA has instructed the Federation of Uganda Football association (FUFA) to make sure that all referees inUgandaundergo mandatory medical check ups. David Ssebunya dropped out of a FUFA organized fitness test at Namboole stadium on Saturday and died. Ssebunya dropped out in the 11th […]
FIFA is set to open the artificial Njeru Technical centre stadium next month. The stadium has capacity to accommodate over 10,000 people. Uganda’s women football team, the Crested Cranes are the first team to camp at this multi-million FIFA funded project. FUFA publicist Rodgers Mulindwa says that the project has cost FIFA over one million […]