FIFA to pay Super Eagles N5.6bn for World Cup qualification

 

Nigeria's football national team, Super Eagles will receive €12.2m (N5.6bn) from FIFA if they qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup later this year. 

Cameroon crisis deepens, as Eagles clash looms – Punch Newspapers

Cameroon national team

Internal problems in Cameroon football took a new dimension on Thursday, when armed gendarmes surrounded the headquarters of the country’s football governing body, FECAFOOT.

João Havelange, former FIFA president, dies at 100

João Havelenge

João Havelenge, Brazilian football executive and former president of FIFA, has died, aged 100.

Fifa warns Nigeria to reinstate sacked officials or face ban

Football's world governing body Fifa issued a warning to Nigeria on Monday to either reinstate its sacked Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) officials or face a suspension.

Remembering Andres Escobar, 20 years on

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Maria Ester Escobar was in Los Angeles on that fateful day, 2 July 1994, and will never
forget the moment she found out the news. It was in the small hours of the morning, the
sort of time when the telephone ringing is often synonymous with an emergency.
She took a while to pick up and had a lump in her throat by the time she did so. On the
other end of the line was Colombia's veteran midfielder Gabriel Barrabás Gomez and, his
voice trembling, he confirmed her worst fears: "Maria, something terrible has happened.
Andres… Andres has been killed."

For the football world, Andres was a talented defender who had impressed for Medellin side
Atletico Nacional and the Colombian national team. But for Maria Ester and the rest of the
Escobar family, the 27-year-old was much more than that: "He was our little brother, our
pride and joy," she tells FIFA.com in Rio de Janeiro, an unmistakable twinge of nostalgia
in her tone.