June 25 – The Gold Cup quarter-final line-up was completed yesterday with Panama vs Honduras being scheduled for the State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Saturday June 28.
By David Gold
February 29 – Australian football chief Frank Lowy (pictured) has responded firmly to outspoken criticism of the A-League from Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 29 – UEFA President Michel Platini (pictured) is set to miss this Saturday’s (March 3) crucial meeting of football’s lawmakers for personal reasons.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 29 – The sale of alcohol at the 2014 World Cup remains a major sticking point after Brazilian officials failed to make a definitive ruling on the issue.
By David Gold
February 29 – Alexey Sorokin (pictured), the chief executive of Russia 2018, has told insideworldfootball that he would prefer to avoid having teams flying long distances during the group stage of the competition.
On February 29 at the bijou Bonifika Stadium in Koper, Scotland take on Slovenia in one of those rather pointless friendly internationals.
The match takes place with Scottish independence high on the UK news agenda and a referendum expected in 2014.
You might think the fortunes of the Tartan Army have little if anything to do with the complexities of Scotland’s constitutional arrangements with the rest of the United Kingdom.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 28 – The tit-for-tat war of words between Europe’s clubs and FIFA was stepped up today when football’s world governing body reacted with surprise at suggestions that relations between the two parties had irretrievably broken down.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 28 – Football agents cream off a remarkable €400 million (£340 million/$540 million) a year from Europe’s professional clubs according to a new survey.
By David Gold
February 28 – South Korea has dropped the K-League Cup in a bid to clamp down on match fixing in the wake of last year’s scandal.
Good can sometimes come out of evil, and the debate on racism that the game is going through could well lead to English football going down the road of America and adopting the Rooney rule. This rule, named for Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and chairman of the league’s diversity committee, was introduced in 2003 so that minority coaches, especially African Americans, were at least considered for high-level coaching positions.
It basically states that,
By David Gold
February 29 – Due to the deteriorating security situation in both Syria and Yemen, the country’s clubs have been told by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to play their “home” AFC Cup games abroad.
By David Gold
February 28 – German champions Borussia Dortmund have registered revenues of over €100 million (£84 million/$135 million) for the first time in their history.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 28 – Europe’s leading clubs today struck a landmark agreement with UEFA giving them a bigger share of the European Championship pot – but warned their relationship with FIFA was still deadlocked.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 27 – The revenues earned by Egypt from three forthcoming friendlies in Qatar will be donated to the victims of the Port Said disaster following direct intervention from national coach Bob Bradley (pictured), the former United States World Cup coach.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 27 – An Australian club is on a collision course with its national association, Football Federation Australia (FFA), after sending out its players bearing a slogan supporting the plight of refugees.
By David Gold
February 27 – The embattled Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has elected Beşiktaş President Yıldırım Demirören (pictured) as their new chairman at a general assembly today.