On Nov. 20 the world’s biggest football competition, the FIFA World Cup, will kick off in the tiny but oil-rich Middle East country of Qatar. Between that day and Dec. 18, 2022, 32 countries from six FIFA-affiliated confederations will slug it out at eight venues to decide who lifts...
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Senegal striker Sadio Mane will undergo medical checks in Munich in 10 days to monitor his recovery from an injury. It is an injury that can rule him out of the entire FIFA World Cup in Qatar, in spite of his being named in his country’s squad on Friday....
Brazil are tipped to claim the FIFA World Cup for the sixth time in the tournament which kicks off on Nov. 20 in Qatar. This is according to a Reuters poll which last successfully predicted the champions in 2010. The global survey of 135 football-following market analysts worldwide agreed...
FIFA’s Senegalese Secretary General, Fatma Samoura has revealed Senegal will use witch doctors to cure Sadio Mane’s injury in a bid to race him to the World Cup in Qatar. Mane, who was expected to miss the World Cup, is now set to be included in Senegal’s squad for the World Cup despite suffering...
Teenager Youssoufa Moukoko and fellow striker Niclas Füllkrug were on Thursday named as uncapped players into Germany’s squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The squad also includes recalled 2014 World Cup hero Mario Götze. But there was no place for Marco Reus and Mats Hummels among...
Qatar authorities said Wednesday they have seized 144 counterfeit World Cup trophies, the latest raid on fakes hitting the market ahead of the football tournament that starts later this month. The interior ministry said officers launched an operation “acting on a piece of information about a website that promotes...
France midfielder Paul Pogba will miss their FIFA World Cup title defence after failing to recover from knee surgery in time for the tournament in Qatar, his agent has said. Pogba had an operation on a damaged meniscus in September but his agent Rafaela Pimenta said that, following a...
Coronavirus vaccinations will not be mandatory for the million-plus fans going to the World Cup in Qatar this year, the Gulf state said Thursday. But players and match officials may be forced into a secure “bio-bubble” if Covid-19 cases take off again, with the threat of expulsion from the...
Visa, a digital payment service firm, ahead of the global football tournament in Qatar, has announced its FIFA world cup promo campaign to reward customers for transactions performed with their visa cards. The company made this known in a statement signed by Mr Andrew Uaboi, Vice President, Visa West...
Tite has slammed Dylan Bronn’s challenge on Neymar during Brazil’s win over Tunisia on Tuesday, claiming it was “a move to take a player out of the World Cup”. The Selecao completed their preparations for the Qatar World Cup with a commanding 5-1 victory in Paris, with Neymar among...
Staging the 2030 men’s World Cup in Saudi Arabia would be “virtually impossible” if FIFA correctly applies its human rights criteria to any bid it makes, Amnesty International has said. The Middle Eastern country, which has been widely criticised for its human rights record, is reportedly interested in hosting...
A daytime ban on outdoor work in the summer months went into effect in Qatar on Wednesday. This is part of efforts to protect migrant labourers from the heat as the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup seeks to improve its human rights record before the event. Qatar...
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have jointly pledged $200 million toward agriculture, climate resilience and economic development projects in Africa. The pledge was made on Monday through a new strategic partnership (Nanmo) to support smallholder farmers on drylands on the African continent....
Following are the pairings after the draw conducted in Douala, Cameroon on Saturday for the final round of the African qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup billed for Qatar: Egypt vs Senegal Cameroon vs Algeria Ghana vs Nigeria DR Congo vs Morocco Mali vs Tunisia First-named teams will...
Qatar World Cup ticket sales were launched at reduced prices on Wednesday with residents and migrant workers able to attend games for just $11 as concerns persist over Covid-19. Authorities have not yet announced how many fans will be allowed into stadiums for the first World Cup in an...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has terminated the contract of Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr and appointed ex-international, Augustine Eguavoen, as the technical adviser on an interim basis. Eguavoen’s appointment is with immediate effect, and ends the NFF’s relationship with Franco-German Gernot Rohr, who has been in charge of...
Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has assured Nigerians that the Super Eagles are mature, professional, and ambitious enough to deal with any pressure when taking on the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde in Tuesday’s crucial game of Group C of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying African series....