This is Beirut, 04/01 16:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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La Liga and the Spanish football federation on Saturday again rejected Barcelona's desperate attempts to register Dani Olmo and avoid a potentially embarrassing departure of their star playmaker. The future of Olmo and young forward Pau Victor at the Catalan giants has been on hold over a financial and administrative limbo that prevented their ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-19 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior both scored as Real Madrid cruised to a 3-0 victory over Mexican side Pachuca in the Intercontinental Cup final in Doha on Wednesday. Mbappe opened the scoring in the 37th minute before Rodrygo doubled Madrid's lead early in the second half. Vinicius sealed a comfortable win for the Spanish and European champions ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-18 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Real Madrid attacker Vinicius Junior won the FIFA Best men's player of the year award at a ceremony in Doha on Tuesday, while Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati picked up the women's prize for the second time. The award comes two months after 24-year-old Vinicius was second in the Ballon d'Or, with Real electing to snub the ceremony when they ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-14 15:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Philippe Diallo was comfortably reelected president of the French Football Federation on Saturday. Diallo, who took over after the resignation of long-standing former chief Noel Le Graet in 2023, won just over 55 percent of the vote to beat Le Graet's former ally Pierre Samsonoff. For the first time in France's largest sports federation which ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-11 19:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
FIFA on Wednesday confirmed that Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup, underlining the Gulf kingdom's growing influence in world sport despite criticism of the country's human rights record. At the same time, a virtual Congress of world football's governing body confirmed that Morocco, Spain and Portugal will be joint hosts of the 2030 World ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-21 12:05 - Reading : less than a minute
The FIFA Football Tribunal rendered its decision in favor of the Palestinian Football Player Zaher Samahe, represented by the International Sports Lawyer Ralph Charbel, in the case opposing him to Al-Qurdabiya Club from Libya. The FIFA Football Tribunal decided that Al-Qurdabiya Club has to pay to the Player Zaher Samahe outstanding payments, ...
Hala Abdallah, 2024-02-24 15:28 - Reading : less than a minute
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Lebanon's FIFA Men's World Ranking dropped to 115 following the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023, where the Lebanese national football team failed to advance beyond the group stage.
Hala Abdallah, 2023-12-28 14:55 - Reading : less than a minute
FIFA shakes up the Club World Cup! Critics slam FIFA's 2025 expansion to 32 teams and new Intercontinental Cup stirs controversy with UEFA's direct final entry.
Pierre Daccache, 2023-12-26 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In a groundbreaking announcement, FIFA has unveiled a major change to the Club World Cup, overturning the well-established calendar of this prestigious competition. Until now, the event has taken place every year before Christmas, featuring the champions of FIFA's confederations. However, from 2025 onwards, the landscape of world soccer will be ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-09 16:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
FIFA on Saturday confirmed that three bids to host the Women's World Cup in 2027 had been lodged "across three confederations" before the bidding process closed. From Europe comes a joint bid between Belgium, Netherland and Germany while Mexico and the United States also teamed up as they submitted another joint bid just before Friday's ...