With just a year away before the FIFA World Cup games in Brazil, Latin America's biggest country is using this year's FIFA Confederation's Cup as a test drive.
* FIFA and Sao Paulo stadium owners have 'fruitful' meeting * Governing body says stadium will be ready by Dec. 31 (Updates with FIFA statement) May 15 (Reuters) - Sao Paulo's World Cup stadium will be ready on time, FIFA said on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after warning the city it could lose the right to stage matches because of delays in building the new arena. Soccer's governing body said ...
(Reuters) - Sao Paulo's World Cup stadium will be ready on time, FIFA said on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after warning the city it could lose the right to stage matches because of delays in building the new arena. Soccer's governing body said it had reached a settlement with stadium owners Corinthians the day after the two parties were involved in a public disagreement. Corinthians president ...
The world governing body has informed the Sao Paulo club that there will be no extension of the December 2013 handover deadline but will look to work with it to stay on schedule.
(Reuters) -- Sao Paulo's World Cup stadium will be ready on time, FIFA said on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after warning the city it could lose the right to stage matches because of delays in building the new arena.
(Reuters) -- Sao Paulo's World Cup stadium will be ready on time, FIFA said on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after warning the city it could lose the right to stage matches because of delays in building the new arena.
FIFA 14 might not be out yet, but if the proposed changes are anything to go by, then the latest version of the famous game is shaping as one of the greatest yet. Some of the proposed changes are more obvious than others, and some will be better received by gamers themselves. That's the case with any game and its updates, and it's especially true for a game like FIFA that has become one of the ...
An emergency meeting between the world soccer governing body and Brazilian club Corinthians has ended amicably after the venue was ratified to meet a December 2013 deadline.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted there were “interventions at different levels” when the executive committee chose Qatar as the 2022 World Cup hosts, while failing to fully support the decision to select the Gulf nation.
May 15 (Reuters) - FIFA backed down from its warning that 2014 World Cup matches could be moved away from Sao Paulo, saying on Wednesday it was "out of the question" to stage the tournament without South America's biggest city. Secretary general Jerome Valcke had said on Tuesday that delays in the building of Sao Paulo's Itaquerao stadium would not be tolerated and warned that FIFA could had ...
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