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FIFA President Gianni Infantino is assessing nine offers from companies seeking to buy the commercial and broadcasting rights for a new club competition he hopes will become the most lucrative in world football, usurping Europe’s Champions League.

The FAI are looking to Germany again for a women’s international manager, with Maren Meinert emerging as a leading candidate for the job.

The United States Women's soccer jersey has become the number one best-selling soccer jersey, men's or women's, ever sold on Nike.com in a single season.

Wednesday evening had been intended as Cinema Evening, a new picture house having opened around the corner and being in need of investigation and appraisal. Given my enduring weakness for high-school movies there was only going to be one winner: Booksmart, in which two clever students realise on the eve of graduation that they should have worked less and played more, upon which they hit the town and attempt to cram four years of lost fun into one night.

Former UEFA president Lennart Johansson has died at the age of 89.

After years of turmoil for Fifa, Gianni Infantino is this week getting a fresh four-year presidential term to lead world football in relative calm.

This week’s story about a British man who was arrested in the UAE after wearing a Qatari football shirt might give some people ideas, writes Tommy Martin.

If we’ve learned anything from Netflix TV series, sports podcasts and purveyors of fancy doughnuts, it’s that you can have too much of a good thing. What is at first new and exciting can soon become bewilderingly oversaturated, and soon you have no idea what’s good anymore, or indeed, what to listen to while you are queuing at the Krispy Kreme drive-thru, writes Tommy Martin.

FIFA's plans to introduce two new football tournaments have received a setback.

FIFA have confirmed they will push forward with controversial plans for two new tournaments.

Today is the final day of the World Cup quarter-final matches and anticipation is building to the all-important final on July 15.

A scintillating goal from Neymar drew him level with Romario in Brazil’s all-time top scorers list as they cruised to a 3-0 win against Austria yesterday.

A rare mea culpa. In pronouncing, before it started, the new Munster Hurling Championship the Best League in the World, it turns out, in hindsight, that I was grossly understating things. I was selling it short.

Stand down Richard Scudamore and company, think again Paul Merson; is the Munster Hurling Championship now The Best League in the World?

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called for an emergency meeting of the governing body's council to discuss a €20.5billion plan to overhaul the Club World Cup and set up a new national league.

Premier League implementation of video assistant referees next season looks unlikely as a number of clubs are understood to be reluctant to ratify its use at Friday's shareholders' meeting.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino is braced for controversy at the World Cup after the use of video assistant referees was approved last month.

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has claimed that the process for choosing where the 2026 World Cup will be played is the fairest, most objective and most transparent in world sport.

Manchester United stars past and present yesterday stood in silent solidarity at Old Trafford to mark the 60th anniversary of the Munich air disaster.

Vitaly Mutko is now Russia's deputy prime minister, president of the Russian Football Union and the chairman of the organising committee for Russia 2018.

The England 2018 World Cup bid team made a determined effort to win over former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and “often accommodated his wishes, in apparent violation of bidding rules”, the Garcia report has found.

FIFA has taken the dramatic step of publishing a controversial internal report into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process after it was leaked to a German newspaper this week.

Referees will have the power to abandon games in the face of discrimination from the stands under a new three-step procedure unveiled by FIFA ahead of the start of the Confederations Cup in Russia.

FAI chief executive John Delaney has given his backing to Fifa’s controversial expansion of the World Cup finals from 32 to 48 teams in 2026.

FAI boss John Delaney has backed a 48-team World Cup.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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Pep Guardiola has warned that football is going to “kill” players by demanding too much of them.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused his replacement Gianni Infantino of disrespecting him.

Fifa will allow the public to vote in a rebranded version of its player of the year of the award, world soccer’s governing body said yesterday.