•Morocco’s Hakimi, Nigeria’s Osimhen and Egypt’s Salah The latest FIFA Men’s World Rankings, released today (February 15, 2024), show that Morocco leads all African men’s national football teams, with Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt, and Cote d’Ivoire closely behind. This is coming after the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations that ended on S...
•FIFA World Cup trophy The 2026 World Cup final will be held at MetLife Stadium in New York/New Jersey, organisers FIFA announced yesterday. The New York bid held off a strong challenge from Dallas to secure the July 19 game, the culmination of the expanded 48-team tournament being co-hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico. […]
•Rocio Galvez and Luis Rubiales Disgraced former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales will be banned from the game for three years, world football governing body FIFA confirmed today after rejecting his appeal. “The Appeal Committee was comfortably satisfied that Mr Rubiales behaved in a manner contrary to the principles enshrined under … the ...
•Spain and Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati Aitana Bonmati was crowned FIFA’s women’s player of the year on Monday after winning the World Cup with Spain and leading Barcelona to Champions League glory during an exceptional 2023. The 25-year-old completed a clean sweep of individual accolades for the past 12 months after also winning the Ba...
•Lionel Messi lifts trophy Lionel Messi won FIFA’s “The Best” award for the third time on Monday as the Argentine pipped Manchester City’s Erling Haaland to the prize for best men’s player in 2023. Haaland was favourite to win after scoring 52 times in his debut season with Manchester City, but Messi edged the vote […]
•Lionel Messi Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati were named as finalists for the FIFA best players of the year awards by world football’s governing body yesterday. Messi was awarded a record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or crown in October in Paris, while Bonmati took the women’s prize after starring for Spain in their Women’s World Cup triumph, [&h...
In the ranking table on the website of the world football governing body today, the Eagles dropped 16.04 points to rank 1474.44 points as against 1490.48 in October. The ranking took into consideration FIFA World Cup qualifiers that took place in African countries as well as in Asia and South America. Here are the top […]