FIFA has fired secretary general Jerome Valcke, who is under investigation for misconduct, world football’s governing body said Wednesday. “The FIFA emergency committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA secretary general with immediate effect,” said a statement. The Frenchman, effectively the number two behind president Sepp Blatter, who has been banned for eight ...

Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been crowned CAF African Player of the Year for the first time, by defeating four time winner, Yaya Toure. The 26-year old beat Ivorian Yaya Toure and Ghana’s Andre Ayew to the crown, the most prestigious individual award in African football. He polled 143 points, seven more than Toure whilst Ayew finished a distant third with 112 points. He thus becomes the first ...

Real Madrid have sacked their coach, Rafael Benitez and named Zinedane Zidane as his replacement. The 32-time Spanish champions fell four points behind Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga after a 2-2 draw against Valencia on Sunday and Benitez was dismissed following a board meeting held on Monday afternoon. Club legend Zidane, who currently manages Madrid’s ‘B’ team, has long been linked with the top job ...

Sepp Blatter, FIFA's long-time president, announced on Tuesday that he will be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA congress has elected a successor. Blatter had won a fifth term as president just last Friday and seemed to feel vindicated in two victory speeches, after yet another round of bribery scandals had beset him and his organization. A recent indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice had le ...

A 47-count indictment was unsealed early this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with the defendants’ participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer.  The guilty pleas of four individual defendants and two corporate de ...

A hat-trick from Francisca Ordega gave Nigeria a deserving 4-0 victory over Italy to qualify for the quarter final of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup going on in Japan. The forward opened the floodgate in the 22nd, 40th and 47th minutes while substitute, Osarenoma Igbinovia added the fourth in the 86th minute to give Nigeria the maximum three points with seven points to lead Group B. The player who is featu ...

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), as a Party, joins concerned Nigerians at the import of the dismal performance of the Nigerian team at the recently concluded 2012 London Olympics where the country failed to register on the medals’ table, the worst in twenty four years. Undoubtedly, this poor showing is an anti-climax to the peak reached in our Olympics participation with the Atlanta ’96 haul of si ...

Nigeria international, Samson Siasia has expressed his appreciation to Nigerians for the support he received during his 11-months reign as chief coach of Super Eagles. The Bayelsa born coach was today finally axed by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) executive committee based on the recommendations of its technical committee who had met about a fortnight ago. “I just want to thank all Nigerians, the fa ...

Members of the senior national team, the super eagles have resolved their disagreement over travel plans to Madagascar. Vincent Enyeama, Mikel John Obi and Victor Anichebe have been branded rebels for rejecting the Air Nigeria aircraft chartered by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the trip for this Sunday's Nations Cup qualifier. The players alleged that the country could afford a better aircraft g ...

All is not well in the camp of Nigeria's women national football team, Super Falcons following the decision by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to decamp them and pay them paltry camping allowance of N10,000 after spending four weeks in the camp. Each of the senior female footballers was said to have been paid the shocking allowance after they managed to secure a 2-1 win over the Lioness of Cameroon in ...