The Egyptian Football Association has taken the unusual step of asking FIFA to remove the officials who oversaw its World Cup last-16 defeat by Argentina from the rest of the tournament. The move unde...
La Liga president Javier Tebas has taken aim at FIFA, accusing football’s global governing body of operating amid a “complicit silence” after United States striker Folarin Balogun was controversially ...
Belgium midfielder Nicolas Raskin has pointed to a late FIFA decision involving United States striker Folarin Balogun as a source of extra motivation for his side before their World Cup last-16 meetin...
Gianni Infantino has spent a decade at the top of world football’s most powerful governing body, and that longevity matters when assessing how he reacts to criticism. According to the BBC’s framing of...
Donald Trump’s confirmation that he asked FIFA to review Folarin Balogun’s one-match World Cup suspension turns a routine disciplinary matter into a broader talking point about how much influence, if ...
The World Cup’s disciplinary framework is supposed to be one of football’s simplest guarantees: a red card means a suspension, and a suspension means a player misses the next match. That clarity is ex...
The World Cup’s appeal is often measured by television audiences, social media reach and the size of the crowds that gather around it. But one of the most striking angles in the BBC’s report is not ab...
England supporters hoping to follow their team at the World Cup have been confronted by a familiar and controversial problem: tickets bought for Monday’s last-16 match against Mexico have been reliste...
England supporters hoping to follow the team into the knockout rounds are confronting a steep financial barrier, with a single ticket for the World Cup last-16 meeting with Mexico listed at a minimum ...
Fifa has raised a fresh alarm over the scale of racist abuse directed online during the World Cup, with its social media protection service reporting a significant increase in the most serious cases. ...