The International FA Board (IFAB) meeting in Zurich voted against continuing any further experiments with goal-line technology and effectively ended any chance of video replays coming into the game. Opponents of technology argued that the human element of football should remain - mistakes and all. Within minutes of the decision, Birmingham had a ...

from the wsj online This weekend in Zurich, as it makes final preparations for June's World Cup, soccer's main rule-making body will discuss the latest controversial bit of Brazilian magic: a devastating penalty-kick maneuver known as the paradinha. The tactic, which in Portuguese means "little stop," was first popularized by Pelé in the 1970s but ...

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke admits South Africa would not be ready to host the World Cup if the tournament started tomorrow. Valcke is happy with progress in the construction of stadiums and training camps but there have been concerns this week over England's camp at Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus near Rustenburg, while the Soccer City venue in ...

FIFA officials have told non- European nations applying to host the 2018 soccer World Cup that they should drop out and focus on 2022, three officials involved in the bidding process said. (more...)

Who at some point hasn't received a corporate-wide memo that says "Required Training", or "Yearly Corporate Kick-Off Meeting: Must Attend"?  It's usually held for several days somewhere very far away in a giant hotel, and breakfast meetings begin at 7am and networking sessions last late into the night. It turns out FIFA World Cup 2010 ...

The FIFA Referee Committee has named 30 Referees from 28 countries ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, down from an initial 54 that were put under the microscope back in '07. (more...)

It was the most talked about incident coming off the 2010 World Cup Qualification phase, with a lot of post match talk targeting  what kind of punishment should be dealt out or if a replay was the right thing to do.  But FIFA has officially let France International Thierry Henry off the hook for any punishment regarding his handball that led up to ...

From Fifa.com: FIFA, along with Presenting Partners EA SPORTS and PlayStation, today kicked off the second half of the season of online qualification for the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2010 and also confirmed the ten successful players from the first half who have qualified for the Grand Final in Barcelona, Spain on 1 May 2010. (more...)