Sentences with phrase «world governing body»

The Barcelona striker and his legal aides are confident the ban from «all football - related activity», handed down by world governing body FIFA, will be chopped in half.

The Spanish side had originally been barred from signing players for two windows by world governing body Fifa, but that has now been reduced to just one.

Pompey have asked the Premier League, who in turn have made a request to world governing body Fifa, to allow the stricken South Coast outfit to sell players in a bid to ease their crippling debts.

Michel Platini is serving out his last term of president of European federation UEFA, whether or not he wins the vote next February 26 to take over at world governing body FIFA.

Football's world governing body acted following the «internal wrangles affecting the FGF that have halted all football competitions in Guinea».

World governing body FIFA forbids international transfers for under - 18s but it is permitted by law within the European Union.

BBC Football Daily: Leicester win Premier League — How football reacted Gianni Infantino, president of football's world governing body Fifa, said Leicester's «beautiful story» was a «fairytale».

Soccer's world governing body is suffering a fresh wave of corruption accusations against top officials, leading to warnings from sponsors like Adidas that they're concerned about the «negative tenor of the public debate» around FIFA.

Spain's La Liga giants Barcelona and Real Madrid definitely seem to be favoured by the European football authorities and now it looks like the world governing body FIFA is getting in on the act.

FIFA, the game's world governing body, had previously suggested that Qatar would have to make the request to move the tournament.

The world governing body of football could still face action from other top European leagues as the winter World Cup is set to play havoc with the continental football calendar.

SUM has established business ties to, among others, the world governing body, Federation Internationale de Football Association (by buying the U.S. English - language TV rights to three World Cups), and the Mexican federation (by acquiring the rights to promote Mexican national team games in the U.S.).

The world governing body of football and Sepp Blatter — as usual — making the rules up as they go along to fit their needs.

You guessed it, these are all significant cultural concerns that the football world governing body, FIFA, decided to overlook in their astonishing decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup.

Such a suggestion has only disgraced FIFA even further — the soaring temperature in Qatar is certainly not a secret — which only begs the question why the rest of football should suffer for the corruptness of the sport's world governing body.

Sepp Blatter's daughter, Corinne, claims that her father is a part of conspiracy to have him ousted from his position as FIFA president following the corruption scandal to have hit football's world governing body this week.

The English have always been the victim of bias from the European and World governing bodies.

As well as having perhaps the greatest name in world history, Mr Blazer makes some good points about how club power could help re-shape FIFA but is also very doubtful that any kind of «actual» change will occur at football's world governing body.

Spainish sports daily «Marca» paper reported that Neymar and his advisers would likely now turn to FIFA, football's world governing body, to request a provisional transfer to PSG.

Sepp Blatter, the dethroned Fifa president, is preparing to publish a personal account of his near 18 years at the head of football's world governing body.

Speaking on Monday night — hours before FIFA's member associations committee was due to meet on the status of Football Federation Australia — Isaac revealed he took time last week to explain to the NSW government the acrimonious fallout that could see the world governing body in charge of Australian football by the...

And football's world governing body's rule book clearly states that if West Ham are found guilty then their win over Bristol City - when Sakho scored the late winner - will be overturned.

Speaking at the Edinburgh Sports Conference today, Kimberley Morris, the head of Integrity & Compliance at FIFA TMS, the world governing body's online monitoring and registration system for international player transfers, released the figures for the 2017 summer transfer window globally.

LONDON: FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli after the player was caught making an obscene gesture during an England match, the world governing body announced today.

The world governing body of soccer, FIFA, awarded her the FIFA Fair Play Award, the first woman and American to receive the award, for her work against child labor in the stitching of soccer balls.

Ghana fell two places to 52nd in the latest FIFA rankings released today by the world governing body for the month of...

Morocco's football federation (FRMF) announced on Friday it had told the sport's world governing body FIFA it will bid to host the 2026 World Cup.

South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL and the sport's world governing body FIFA are reeling from a corruption scandal.

Football's world governing body has approved five of the presidential candidates, with suspended Uefa boss Michel Platini also not included.

In 1974 he succeeded Britain's Sir Stanley Rous to be elected Fifa president, marshalling support among those unhappy at the perceived European domination of the world governing body.

And the sport's world governing body, FIFA, said «idiotic troublemakers» caused what it called «shameful» violence.

Football's world governing body has requested a meeting with Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma and other leading officials.

Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposal for the world governing body's top officials to pass integrity checks.

President of football's world governing body, FIFA is being interrogated by officials representing the Swiss Attorney General according to the BBC.

In 2015, former minister and football executive Austin «Jack» Warner said that he had documents linking the outcome of the general election with himself and the finances of football's world governing body, FIFA.

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Switzerland About Blog The Official YouTube channel of World Baseball Softball Confederation, the world governing body of the sports.

Champagne warned of what he called the «NBA - ification» of football in which certain domestic leagues could become more powerful than Fifa, as he claims to be the case with the NBA in the United States and Fiba, the world governing body for basketball.

Lexus is negotiating with the world governing body of motorsport, the Federation Internationale Automobile (FIA), to homologate the RC F for the FIA European GT3 championship in 2015.

On May 15, 1923 she became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license by the world governing body for aeronautics.

From 1997 until 2013, he was a member of the executive committee of FIFA, soccer's world governing body.

At its meeting in the first week of July 2008, the Executive Board of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's world governing body, decided that the result of the August 2006 Oval Test Match between England and Pakistan should be altered from an England win to a draw.

Advising a world governing body of motorsport on all legal issues concerning the motorsport series that it governs, including disputes over commercial arrangements, rules and regulations breaches and corporate governance matters.

He has served as a tribunal secretary in twenty arbitrations, most recently at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and is a member of the inaugural Disciplinary Tribunal of the IAAF, the world governing body for athletics.

Three Crowns» Jan Paulsson and Philipp Kotlaba have been appointed to the inaugural Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world governing body for Athletics.