WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The New Zealand women’s soccer team have qualified for this year’s Rio Olympics after Papua New Guinea failed to travel to Auckland for the second leg of their qualifying final having failed to obtain the necessary visas. New Zealand had won the first leg of the Oceania qualifying final 7-1 in Lae […]
Germany will keep the door open for injured defender Jerome Boateng as long as possible ahead of this year's European Championship, coach Joachim Loew said.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale has been called to appear before the South African Football Association (SAFA) to answer questions about a lacklustre election campaign, SAFA said on Monday. Plans for him to meet the association’s leadership on Monday were cancelled, however, because Sexwale is overseas, SAFA spokesman Dominic Chimhavi told […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Bookmaker Williams Hill has cut its odds to 2/5 that Manchester United’s Louis Van Gaal will be the next Premier League manager to leave his post after Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat by Southampton. “For the first time, even Louis Van Gaal has admitted that he has failed and if he is not […]
The Bahraini sheikh bidding to become FIFA president next month says he would like Richard Scudamore, to be his secretary general if he wins the election.
