By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – African football chief Issa Hayatou today became the latest FIFA powerbroker to deny corruption allegations made against him by a British Parliamentary Committee.
By David Gold
May 10 – The Football Association (FA) may cut funding to three African nations after a board meeting set for next week, which is to decide the budget and strategy for international development.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 5 – Amos Adamu, the Nigerian football powerbroker suspended by FIFA for alleged involvement in bribery and corruption, is taking his case to the sport’s highest court to overturn his three-year ban.
By David Gold
April 20 – The African Football Confederation (CAF) has fined Egyptian outfit Zamalek following a pitch invasion after a game in the African Champions League last month.
By David Gold
April 14 – South Africa’s national football team could be set for a name change due to a trademark dispute, with the country’s football federation (SAFA) admitting that they are undecided on whether to drop the “Bafana Bafana” nickname.
By David Gold
April 4 – Egypt’s Football Association President Samir Zaher has said that the country would have to reconsider the resumption of domestic football in mid April after a Champions League game in Cairo had to be abandoned after supporters invaded the pitch.
By David Gold
March 19 – The 2011 CAF African Youth Championship will be hosted by South Africa after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) confirmed the switch from war-torn Libya.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 3 – The first major sporting fallout from the political unrest in Libya has seen South Africa as likely replacements for the north African country as hosts of the Orange African Youth Championship, it was reported today.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 23 – Danny Jordaan, the man who did more than anyone to bring the World Cup to South Africa, today failed in his great ambition to win a seat on to the top table at FIFA.
By Andrew Warshaw
Febuary 7 – Amos Adamu, one of the two FIFA powerbrokers banned over the World Cup cash-for-votes scandal, is to take his case all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after an Appeals Committee upheld the three-year sanction against him.
By Duncan Mackay
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January 26 – Amos Adamu, who is suspended from FIFA’s ruling Executive Committee over corruption allegations, has been unfairly treated, Nigeria’s Sports Minister has claimed.
By David Owen
January 13 – Amos Adamu (pictured) is attempting to retain a seat on FIFA’s ruling 24-member Executive Committee for another four years.
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By Andrew Warshaw
October 4 – Nigerian football has been plunged into disgrace after the country was banned by FIFA from all international competition because of Government interference.
September 3 – Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills (pictured) has sought permission from Sepp Blatter to set-up a special enquiry to investigate how the Ghana Football Association (GFA) uses funds given it by the Government.
By David Owen
August 19 – Last year’s under-17 World Cup cost more than double its budget, in an overshoot blamed by FIFA on “exceptional high” medical and security costs.