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FIFA lift ban on Nigeria and retains date for World Cup vote

The world’s football governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), yesterday finally removed the banned hammer completely from Nigeria Football, this was announced after the meeting of FIFA executive committee member, which held without the Nigeria FIFA and CAF executive member Dr. Amos Adamu. Nigeria Football Federation (NFA) was banned on October 4th, due [...]

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Wenger may be sanction today

Arsene Wenger is likely to be charged by the Football Association (FA) in England for his behaviour during the game against Sunderland on Sunday. An FA spokesman said they will check ref Phil Dowd’s report to see if it mentions the incident. Television replays showed clearly that the Arsenal manager shove the 4th match official [...]

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UEFA banned Vuvuzela

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has place a ban on fans from taking vuvuzelas into stadiums for any European Championship matches, Europa League matches and Champions League matches.UEFA said, the plastic trumpets “are not appropriate in Europe” because they drown out fans’ traditional songs and emotional responses to action on the field. All [...]

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Manchester City successfully signed Yaya Toure

Manchester City have successfully signed the Ivory Coast player Yaya Toure from Barcelona on a five-year deal for about £24m. The midfielder who is 27 year old, played for Ivory Coast at this summer’s World Cup in south Africa. Yaya was released by Catalan club last week, before Manchester City grab him on five years [...]

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World Cup 2010: FIFA President Blatter expresses his apology over officiating

England will take some comfort from the fact that an apology was made by Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president over the disallowed goal scored by Frank Lampard. The FIFA President made this apology saying that this serious error has convinced him to rethink on making use of technology at the goal-line going forward and said [...]

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