Mexico dominate USA to retain their Gold Cup title
Mexico 2 USA 1
July 6 – In front of a sold-out crowd of 70,925 in the NRG Stadium in Houston, Mexico beat the USA 2-1 to win the 2025 Gold Cup.
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Spain turn on the style against battling Belgians
Spain 6 Belgium 2
July 7 – With a dominant performance and four second-half goals, Spain defeated a combative Belgium 6-2 in a Group B goal feast that left their opponents on the brink of elimination.
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Lowy claims “last word has not been heard” on Qatar 2022 World Cup bid
By David Gold
November 28 – Frank Lowy, the chairman of the Australian Football Federation (FFA), has indicated that he believes that Qatar could yet lose the right to host the World Cup in 2022.
Italian players unite to help ease debt crisis
By David Gold
November 28 – Players competing in the Italian football league are buying more than €100,000 (£86,000/ $134,000) worth of Government bonds as they hope to help alleviate the financial gloom afflicting the debt ridden country.
Game 39 won’t happen on my watch, insists Premier League chief Scudamore
By David Gold
November 28 – Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has promised that there will be no ‘Game 39’ – the controversial plan to play an extra league game overseas – during his tenure.
Ronaldo quashes 2014 World Cup Presidency rumours
By Andrew Warshaw
November 28 – Former Brazilian international Ronaldo has denied reports that he has been asked to replace controversial FIFA powerbroker Ricardo Teixeira as head of the country’s 2014 World Cup Organising Committee.
Combating match fixing is “top priority”, says UEFA general secretary Infantino
By David Gold
November 28 – UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino (pictured) has reiterated the organisation’s commitment to eradicating match fixing from football, calling it their “top priority”.
Wales manager Gary Speed dies
By Andrew Warshaw
November 27 – The football world was plunged into mourning today after Wales manager Gary Speed was found dead at the age of 42 from an apparent suicide.
Leave my kids alone, Sir Alex Ferguson warns Team GB
By David Gold
November 26 – Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has welcomed the potential involvement of several of his young English players in the Olympic Games next year, but warned that he did not want any of them playing at both London 2012 and the European Championships.
Racism is not resolved with a handshake, sneers Brazil’s Teixeira
By David Gold
November 26 – Brazil’s controversial football chief Ricardo Teixeira (pictured) has launched a veiled attack on Sepp Blatter by declaring that “racism is not resolved with a handshake”, echoing the words the embattled FIFA President used in an interview last week, as the country launched an anti-racism drive.
African London 2012 Olympic qualifiers get under way in Morocco
By David Gold
November 25 – Eight teams from across Africa are in Morocco for the next fortnight hoping to progress to the London 2012 Olympic Games football tournament.
It’s either van Gaal or Cruyff as decision time approaches for Ajax
By David Gold
November 25 – Dutch giants Ajax will choose between two of the most influential men in the club’s history, Louis van Gaal (pictured) and Johan Cruyff, at a shareholders meeting on December 12, in order to end the internal civil war between the two men’s respective supporters.
Exclusive: Win-at-all-costs mentality shouldn’t take priority over health issues, warns FIFA medical chief
By Andrew Warshaw
November 25 – Too many footballers are risking their long-term careers by having painkilling injections before matches, FIFA’s medical chief warned today.
Exclusive: FIFA’s medical chief calls for relax on anti-doping rules in clenbuterol cases
By Andrew Warshaw
November 25 – FIFA’s medical chief, Jirí Dvorák (pictured), has called on anti-doping authorities not to take too hard a line against clenbuterol and to be more understanding about how and why the substance gets into the body.
Mihir Bose: Blatter’s outrageous racism comments have done untold damage to him and FIFA
Sepp Blatter may believe the furore he provoked by his comments on racism in football is behind him. He could not be more mistaken. He will have to live with the consequences of his absurd comment that if there is racism on the field of play it can be got rid of by a post-match hand shake.
Worse still, the damage he has done to FIFA, when the organisation is already so beleaguered, cannot be overestimated.
Chelsea explore viability of new stadium at Battersea Power Station
By David Gold
November 24 – Chelsea have appointed Mike Hussey, chief executive of property investment and development company Almacantar, to investigate the possibility of the club constructing a new stadium at Battersea Power Station.
Rift between Morocco and Nigeria overshadows African Olympic qualifiers
By David Gold
November 24 – The African Olympic football qualifying tournament gets underway in Morocco this weekend, but a row between the hosts and Nigeria is overshadowing the build up to the event.