A new Bill tackling corruption in sports will do little to “eradicate the culture of omertà, FIFA director for European Member Associations Bjorn Vassallo said yesterday. Mr Vassallo, who chaired an Anti-Corruption Task Force set up to draft the Bill, lamented ...
The FIFA-AFC Conference for Women’s Football – a unique event featuring General Secretaries and Heads of Women’s Football from 38 of the Member Associations within the AFC – proved to be a hotbed of ideas for the development of women’s ...
This Earth Day, LAFC is doing its part. On Sunday, the Club will ...
Major League Soccer is committed to improving the communities where we live and play our matches and to addressing important social issues through MLS WORKS, the League’s community outreach initiative. Our Greener Goals initiative helps identify ways to reduce the league’s carbon footprint ...
Red Bulls general manager Marc de Grandpre was so committed to making sure young fans with autism and their families were welcomed to the team’s matches that he gave up his office. Inspired by his 10-year-old daughter Julia, who is on ...
Like many former players, Viv Anderson, once of Manchester United and England, compares retirement to suffering “a bereavement.” It is the loss of the only life many players have ever known; few are prepared for what happens away ...
One of England’s leading football clubs has become the latest high-profile name to announce plans to fight plastic pollution. Tottenham Hotspur is pledging to eliminate all plastic straws, stirrers and cutlery from the opening day of its new £850 million stadium ...
The 2015-2017 UEFA Compliance and Investigation Activity Report looks back at two busy years of club licensing and financial fair play activities. The new UEFA Compliance and Investigation Activity Report 2015–2017, published this week and available here on UEFA.com, reviews another busy two ...
With the aim of reducing the environmental impact of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ and raising awareness of climate change, FIFA has launched a campaign encouraging successful ticket applicants to offset the carbon emissions resulting from their travel to ...
Like many good stories, this one begins with a crazy idea and a bunch of naysayers. Sanjay Patel arrived in Atlanta and wondered why it was so difficult to find a game of pick-up soccer. As far as ...
