USA 1 Saudi Arabia 0
June 19 – American comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to say, “I don’t get no respect.” The same could be said for the United States Men’s Soccer Team as barely 10,000 fans showed up for a supporter friendly 8.15 pm kickoff versus Concacaf Gold Cup, Group D opponents, Saudi Arabia in a 1-0 win that again raised more questions than answers.
March 20 – Mexico coach Jaime Lozano (pictured) has left Fulham striker Raúl Jiménez off his Concacaf Nations League roster as the country bids to win the event for the first time in its third edition.
March 20 – The Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FSBIH) has signed a two-year sponsorship renewal with the country’s largest insurance company in the country, ASA Central Insurance. No value for the deal was given.
March 19 – The USA have been forced to make two last minute additions to their squad for the Nations League final four that kicks off this Thursday at the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas.
March 19 – Jamaica have dropped in-form Aston Villa winger Leon Bailey from their Nations League Finals squad.
March 19 – Concacaf has announced Chili’s Grill & Bar as the official restaurant of the 2024 Concacaf Nations League Finals that kick off at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Dallas, on Thursday.
March 19 – In a letter to FIFA, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) has demanded that Congress consider “appropriate” sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) and its clubs because of “unprecedented international human rights and humanitarian law violations” in the war on Gaza.
March 19 – Nottingham Forest have become the latest Premier League club to be savagely punished for overspending, dropping into the relegation zone as a result with nine games remaining.
March 19 – Legislation to establish an independent regulator to oversee English professional football was being introduced today in an effort to ensure financial sustainability as well as stopping teams from joining breakaway competitions like the European Super League.
It is not every day that one surveys the annual performance of a venerable 120-year-old organisation, notes a near $400 million loss, and concludes that business is ticking along very nicely. Then again, the organisation is FIFA and the business is football – a realm which, you might often be forgiven for thinking, operates in keeping with a commercial logic that is entirely its own.
March 19 – Starlizard Integrity Services, the betting-related match-fixing monitoring specialists, are reporting a 16% increase in suspicious matches in 2023 against 2022.
March 19 – Turkey’s Fenerbahçe have called an emergency meeting to vote on whether the club should withdraw from the Turkish Super Lig after the unprecedented scenes following the match with Trabzonspor on Sunday, when Trabzonspor fans attacked Fenerbahce players.
March 19 – Flamengo, Fluminense and Botafogo were handed benign draws in the Copa Libertadores while Palmeiras and River Plate of Argentina face a tougher route to the knockout stages.
March 19 – The German football federation is targeting racism and discrimination with a new campaign ahead of this summer’s European Championship.
March 19 – England captain Harry Kane has linked up with the national squad despite sustaining an ankle injury during Bayern Munich’s recent match against Darmstadt.
March 19 – Blockchain and crypto specialists Chiliz has entered into a strategic partnership with game studio Unagi and the French Professional Football League (LFP) to launch fantasy football Coach Ligue 1, the first time a league has developed their own game.