June 13 – Mexico approach the 2025 Gold Cup with typical confidence, having secured early silverware through March’s Concacaf Nations League triumph – a psychological boost that sets them up beautifully for the right to be called Kings of the Region.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 20 – FIFA reiterated today that it will be up to the game’s South American Confederation, CONMEBOL, to replace Brazil’s Ricardo Teixeira (pictured) on the world football governing body’s Executive Committee.
By David Gold
March 20 – Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu are all through to the semi-finals of the Oceania men’s football qualifiers for London 2012, but hosts New Zealand are yet to seal their last four spot.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 20 – Russia 2018 were forced into revisiting the issue of racism today but continued to deny it was a serious problem despite yet another widely reported incident.
By David Gold
March 20 – Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets (pictured) will be able to compete at the London 2012 football tournament for Spain after their Olympic coach, Luis Milla, reached an agreement with the Catalan club.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 20 – FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke (pictured) has been given a crucial lifeline after being cleared to carry on running the organisation’s 2014 World Cup programme.
By Duncan Mackay
March 20 – David Magliano, the marketing director of England’s disastrous bid to host the 2018 World Cup, has joined the Co-operative Group as its new brand director, it has been announced.
By Duncan Mackay
March 20 – Former FIFA President João Havelange is seriously ill while undergoing treatment for an infection, a Brazilian hospital has announced.
By Duncan Mackay
March 20 – Ricardo Teixeira has resigned as a member of FIFA’s ruling Executive Committee, a week after he quit as the President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and Brazil 2014.
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.
It was one of those dramatic “I was there” occasions – but for tragic reasons. The day when football took a back seat and the fragility of human life took over.
Anyone who was at Tottenham’s White Hart Lane stadium on Saturday cannot fail to have been emotionally moved by the harrowing scenes of Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsing with heart failure.
Never in all my years of covering the game have I seen so much collective shock and distress among players,
By Andrew Warshaw
March 19 – Romário (pictured), the former Brazilian striker turned Congressman, has once again criticised 2014 World Cup preparations, suggesting his country will be “embarrassed” by poor organisation.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 18 – UEFA President Michel Platini is set to meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (pictured)tomorrow for an update on the match fixing scandal that has rocked Turkish football.
By David Gold
March 17 – Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba (pictured) is in a North London hospital tonight after collapsing during an FA Cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.
By David Gold
March 16 – UEFA has confirmed the appointment of ESPN as the Caribbean’s official broadcaster of the European Championships in 2012 and 2016.
By David Gold
March 16 – A man has admitted throwing a banana at Anzhi Makhachkala’s Brazilian star Roberto Carlos (pictured) during a league match in Samara, but will not be punished.