LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil and Argentina lost their appeals to FIFA on Monday and will have to play the World Cup qualifying game that was abandoned last year in Sao Paulo amid chaos on the field caused by pandemic rule breaches. In one of the most bizarre scenes during the qualifying program for the World…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former head coach of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr has dragged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before FIFA and is awaiting a ruling on a $1m compensation claim for unfair dismissal, BBC Africa reports. Rohr was fired in December, weeks for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The German is the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifa has decided that Russia can continue their bid to qualify for this winter’s World Cup, despite their opponents refusing to play against them. As England became the latest country to say they will boycott matches against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, Fifa finally ended days of silence on the subject…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria, the top performers so far in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, were paired with arch rivals Ghana in the African World Cup play-offs draw in Douala on Saturday. Ghana will have home advantage first and both legs will be played between March 21 and 29 with the aggregate…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) may be dragged before the world soccer ruling body, FIFA, following the unceremonious dismissal of Coach Gernot Rohr as the Super Eagles manager, so said one of the German’s confidants. The NFF in a statement released late on Sunday, announced that it had severed relationship with the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors on Tuesday after a six-year investigation into a controversial $2 million payment. The 85-year-old Blatter and 66-year-old Platini now face a trial at federal criminal court in Bellinzona. They could be jailed for several…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Football governing bodies FIFA and CAF have postponed Monday’s 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying match involving Guinea and visiting Morocco. The decision to postpone the game is as a result of Sunday’s coup d’etat in the west African country, as well as the reported detention of its president, Alpha Conde. “The current…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia says FIFA ran a foul of his constitutional rights after he was convicted of bribery. In a lawsuit filed Monday in New York federal court, the former Nigerian international claims only the US Government can charge him. The 53-year-old was initially sanctioned in 2019 by FIFA…