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Chung quits OFC presidency amid rumours of political and financial corruption

Exclusive: FIFA stocks up on anti-doping kits after Berlinger announces withdrawal

Shot across the bows. Italian refs receive bullets in post after VAR protests

Women’s match sets world record inaugurating new Dead Sea pitch

FIFPro issues health warning after study highlights high incidence of knee damage

Arbeloa enters e-sports business with stake in Madrid-based Origen team

CFU Women’s Challenge Series 2018 is a ‘recommitment’ to female players in Caribbean

FIFA steps in with working group to reform Aussie governance structure

Liverpool charged by UEFA over fan assaults on Man City bus

Feeling the love: Man City hook up with Tinder for global dalliance

There’s still big money in slave trading. Player agents earn record £211m off PL clubs

SPFL to pay out £23.7m in league prize money

Bus battered: Liverpool apologise for fans attack on Man City team

Red carded. British refs fail to pass FIFA quality control for Russia 2019

Gold Cup 2025

Houston we don’t have a problem. Gold Cup delivers a Central American football feast

Canada stunned by Curaçao comeback in chaotic added time

Passion meets pragmatism in Austin as Panama secure QF spot

Jamaica hold on to beat Guadeloupe but every little thing is not alright

No more Mr Guy: Marsch respects disciplinary process as he embeds culture of ruthlessness in Canada

Unconvincing but into next round. USA dispatch Saudi Arabia, just

Chung quits OFC presidency amid rumours of political and financial corruption

Exclusive: FIFA stocks up on anti-doping kits after Berlinger announces withdrawal

Shot across the bows. Italian refs receive bullets in post after VAR protests

Women’s match sets world record inaugurating new Dead Sea pitch

FIFPro issues health warning after study highlights high incidence of knee damage

Arbeloa enters e-sports business with stake in Madrid-based Origen team

CFU Women’s Challenge Series 2018 is a ‘recommitment’ to female players in Caribbean

FIFA steps in with working group to reform Aussie governance structure

Liverpool charged by UEFA over fan assaults on Man City bus

Feeling the love: Man City hook up with Tinder for global dalliance

There’s still big money in slave trading. Player agents earn record £211m off PL clubs

SPFL to pay out £23.7m in league prize money

Bus battered: Liverpool apologise for fans attack on Man City team

Red carded. British refs fail to pass FIFA quality control for Russia 2019

By Andrew Warshaw and Paul Nicholson

April 6 – David Chung, president of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and one of FIFA’s highest ranking officials, has resigned after seven years in the job. A short statement from the OFC said Chung, FIFA’s senior vice-president and an important ally in Gianni Infantino’s 2016 presidential election victory, took the decision “after much deliberation, citing personal reasons.”

Integrity

By David Owen

April 6 – FIFA has secured adequate supplies of anti-doping sample collection kits for this summer’s World Cup in Russia, in spite of the company which makes them announcing plans to exit the business.

Europe

April 6 – Bullets have been sent in the post to three key figures at the Italian Referees’ Association, according to its president, amid fan protests over use of the video assistant referee system.

Football Asia

April 6 – A women’s football match at the Dead Sea this week entered the Guinness Book of Records for having been played at the lowest point on earth, 400 meters below sea level.

Performance

April 6 – Professional footballers often try to extend their careers as long as possible by dropping into the lower leagues but the international Players union FIFPro has warned that more than one in three former players over the age of 40 are now suffering from knee cartilage damage, “risking their long-term health or are unaware of the lasting effects of serious knee injuries.”

Football Marketing

April 6 – The attraction of e-sports has snared another football big name. Former Real Madrid, Liverpool and West Ham star Álvaro Arbeloa is partnering with League of Legends team Origen.

Concacaf

April 5 – The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) is championing its Women’s Challenge Series 2018 as a “recommitment to female players” in the region. The competition marks a return to locally organised game play in a forgotten region of world football that has been left emaciated, underfunded and excluded by political power plays at CONCACAF and FIFA level.

Football Asia

April 6 – FIFA has set up a Congress Review Working Group (CRWG) for Football Federation Australia (FFA) with the aim to “propose a new composition of the FFA Congress to ensure a broader and more balanced representation of stakeholders in line with the requirements of the FIFA Statutes, in particular art. 15 (j).”

Europe

April 6 – Liverpool have been charged by UEFA over the disturbances at their Champions League clash with Manchester City on Wednesday.

Football Marketing

April 5 – Manchester City and Tinder have turned their courtship into a multi-year partnership in a deal that will also see the dating platform connect with sister club New York City FC in the MLS.

Finance

April 4 – English Premier League clubs paid agents a record £211 million in the past year, an increase of £37 million, latest figures reveal, rekindling the debate over whether they take too much money out of the game.

Finance

April 5 – The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has allocated more than £23.7million in total prize money to its 42 member clubs for the 2017/18 season. This is an increase of £800,000 on last season’s prize fund of £22.9million.

Europe

April 5 – Liverpool have apologised to Manchester City after bottles were thrown at their team coach when they arrived for the all-English Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday.

Performance

April 5 – British referees have invariably commanded global respect but none will take part in this year’s World Cup in Russia, the first such absence in 80 years.

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic