Spanish star striker Raúl makes move to Qatar
By David Gold
May 15 – Qatari side Al Sadd have clinched the signing of Spain’s former international star Raúl on a reported one-year contract.
By David Gold
May 15 – Qatari side Al Sadd have clinched the signing of Spain’s former international star Raúl on a reported one-year contract.
By David Gold
April 26 – The former chief of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), Xie Yalong (pictured), has stood trial for allegedly accepting bribes.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Former Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam faces a nervous two months before discovering whether he has won his appeal against being banned for life for alleged bribery.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 17 – Former Asia football supremo Mohamed Bin Hammam makes a final attempt to regain his credibility when he tries to overturn his lifetime FIFA ban for corruption tomorrow.
By David Gold
April 14 – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has cancelled a friendly match, scheduled originally for Tuesday (April 17), with Iran after the Islamic Republic’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited an island which both countries believe they own.
By Duncan Mackay
April 2 – Tokuaki Suzuki, the former Competitions Director of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and Japan Football Association (JFA), has been appointed by Tokyo 2020 its new communications director to oversee its bid for the Olympics and Paralympics.
By David Gold
March 27 – FIFA is meeting this week to discuss what sanctions, if any, to take against the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) after they missed a deadline to take control of domestic football in the country.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 27 – Asian football, which has not always spoken with one voice, moved towards a closer alliance today when FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (pictured left) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) acting President Zhang Jilong (right) signed a Collaboration Agreement between the Asian Football Development Project (AFDP) and AFC.
By David Gold
March 19 – D-day for Indonesia’s embattled Football Association (PSSI) is looming with no sign in sight of a resolution to its conflict with the breakaway domestic league.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 16 – Jordan’s FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (pictured left) has sought to diffuse any tension with English football authorities by playing down Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards’ (right) outburst at this week’s International Sport Security Conference in Doha.
By David Gold
March 12 – The embattled Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) is reportedly to receive help from a group of businessmen after losing its Government funding.
By Duncan Mackay
March 10 – India is planning to bid for the 2015 Club World Cup and the Under-17 World Cup in 2017, it has been revealed.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 5 – Zhang Jilong (pictured), the Chinese acting President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), has welcomed the decision by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) to unanimously endorse lifting the ban on women footballers wearing the Islamic headscarf.
By Andrew Warshaw in London
March 3 – Asian football supremo Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (pictured) has reiterated the dangers of match fixing following the suspicious World Cup qualifier between Indonesia and Bahrain on Wednesday.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 1 – FIFA have launched a “routine” investigation into Bahrain’s astonishing 10-0 victory over a weakened Indonesia team in a crucial World Cup qualifier on Wednesday.