The Football Federation Australia (FFA) has been cleared of corruption allegations to its bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

At least two persons died and three others were wounded in a grenade attack on a house where young Somalis were secretly watching a world cup game in the Elasha biyaha neighborhood south of Mogadishu last night.

The Somali football federation has vehemently welcomed the reinstatement of the country’s sports minister Khadija Mohamed Diriye over the weekend.

Knowledge bank: This paper, by Professor Michael Schatzberg examines the microcosm of football by looking at the complicated relationship between the state, non-political societal organizations, and international institutions exemplified by a case study of the political fall of Denis Obua, long-serving president of the Ugandan Football Federation (FUFA).

The pensioner was talking himself into a rage. “Football is becoming too commercialized”, he scolded. “The young people today are too focused on money”. In his time, Eusébio da Silva Ferreira argues, everything was better. Back then, you focused on the game.

Somali football referees will have voting rights in the future soccer elections in the country.

Can one say that Ghana is Africa’s team? This is the question Brendan O'Neill poses in the always interesting online magazine Spiked. And it is an important question.

At the current World Cup in South Africa many were surprised to see how embarrassingly France tumbled out of the tournament.