Fifa to investigate Serbia over Kosovo flag
The world’s footballing body Fifa has initiated disciplinary proceedings against the Serbian football association after the team displayed a flag…
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Spain’s female to strike over €8,000 annual pay offer
Almost 200 top-flight women’s footballers have voted to go on strike over pay and working conditions. The vote won 93-per-cent…
Football-enthusiast Erdogan best man at Özil wedding
German World Cup winner Mesut Özil has married the former Miss Turkey, Amine Gulse, in Istanbul and his best man…
German club under fire for staging tribute to extremist
Fans at the German football club Chemnitzer FC have mourned a far-right activist and thug in their stadium before a…
Nike ‘concerned’ over Ronaldo rape claims
Nike says it is “deeply concerned” by the rape claims against Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured), who has an…
Swiss police: Abramovich a security threat
Switzerland’s federal police said Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich (pictured) would pose a “threat to public security and a…
Ozil ditches ‘racist’ Germany
German World Cup winner Mesut Ozil (pictured) is retiring from international football, blaming “racist” criticism after he met Turkey’s President…
England fans to invade Kaliningrad
England supporters are to expected to cross the border from Poland and Lithuania into the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad…
LGBT World Cup venue axed
A space for gay and ethnic-minority football fans in St Petersburg for the football World Cup says it was forced…
Croat football’s ‘Mr Big’ flees jail sentence
Former Dinamo Zagreb chief Zdravko Mamic has been sentenced to more than six years in jail over multimillion-euro corruption charges….
Erdogan football photos anger Germany
The head of Germany’s football federation (DFB) has criticised Mesut Özil (pictured) and İlkay Gündogan for posting photos with Turkey’s…
Spain threatened with World Cup exclusion
The Spanish football team is under threat of being thrown out of the 2018 World Cup in Russia over alleged…
Chelsea owner named in 2018 probe
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich (pictured) has become involved in the scandal over the award of the next two…
German football fuelled by energy-drink rage
Dortmund’s legendary Suedtribuene. Source: Wikimedia The president of the German football association, (DFB) Reinhard Grindel has said the attacks…
Football’s role in Algerian struggle
French occupying forces were facing a bitter insurgency by 1958. Source: Wikimedia As the African Cup of Nations football…
Deaths blamed on Uzbek cotton recruitment
Large areas of Uzbek society are disrupted by the cotton harvest. Source: Eurasian Times Radio Free Europe is arguing that…