Lionel Messi’s career had already established the Argentine legend as one of the best football players to ever live. Yet until December 2022, he had one trophy missing from his otherwise loaded cabinet — the greatest one of all, the FIFA World Cup. No one had brought Argentina a World Cup title since Diego Maradona […]
India Drop 15 Places To 117th In FIFA Rankings, Worst In 7 Years, Post Asian Cup Debacle
India are ranked 22nd among the Asian nations.© AFP The Indian football team on Thursday dropped 15 places to 117th in the FIFA rankings, the worst in seven years, after the recent debacle in the AFC Asian Cup, where it lost all its three group matches. This was India’s worst ranking after it was placed […]
Home Match vs Kuwait Crucial For India In FIFA WC qualifiers: Igor Stimac
India’s home match against Kuwait on June 6 could be among head coach Igor Stimac’s most important matches at the helm of affairs as the country seeks to make it to the third round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for the first time in its history. Stimac is believed to have told the […]
Iran Asks FIFA To Ban Israel Over War In Gaza
Iran’s football federation said Saturday it has asked world football’s governing body, FIFA, to suspend Israel’s football federation over the country’s war in Gaza. In an announcement posted on the Iranian football federation’s website, Iran asked FIFA to “completely suspend” the Israeli federation “from all activities related to football”. The request also asks for “immediate […]
Record $9.63 Billion Spent On 2023 Transfers – FIFA
Football clubs worldwide spent a record $ 9.63 billion (8.88 billion euros) on international transfers last year, surpassing the previous record set in 2019 by more than $ 2 billion, according to a FIFA report published Tuesday. The latest figures represent a 48.1 percent increase compared to 2022 when transfer spending began to climb again […]