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The FIFA Puskas award has only been around a couple of years, but what is not to love about it. Awarded for what is considered to be the most beautiful goal of the year, the 2011 finalists include some of the biggest names in soccer. Featuring goals from the likes of Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi and Brazil's new starlet Neymar. Each of these goals ...

via Guardian Fifa has announced that legal problems have postponed the promised publication of a Swiss court document naming football officials who took kickbacks from World Cup broadcast deals. One of those involved in the case, understood to be Brazil's Fifa member Ricardo Teixeira, has taken legal measures to try to prevent the file being ...

via FIFA The contenders for this year’s FIFA Ballon d’Or Award for the best player of 2011 and for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year 2011 award were announced today at a press conference held at the headquarters of France Football magazine in Paris in which FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke, France Football CEO François ...

via Guardian Michel Platini, the president of Uefa, believes the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should be held in the winter to ensure fans were not dissuaded from travelling by the country's searing summer temperatures. He also suggested that Europe's clubs should not stand in the way of such a demand. In an interview with al-Jazeera, Platini said he ...

via FIFA Since 2009, FIFA and FIFPro, the representative organisation for professional footballers, have joined forces to honour the 11 best players on the planet every year, an initiative that FIFPro first launched in 2005. Traditionally, more than 50,000 players cast their vote for the FIFA/FIFPro World XI award, the results of which are then ...

via FIFA Given his prodigious goalscoring record in FIFA World Cup™ finals, Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima richly deserves his nickname of O Fenômeno. The scorer of 15 goals in 11 world finals appearances at France 1998, Korea/Japan 2002 and Germany 2006, having also made the Brazil squad for USA 1994, the legendary striker is the leading marksman ...

All Rooney, Piqué, Wilshere, Cahill and Kakà want for Christmas is… the ball! Give the gift of FIFA 12 Watch FIFA 12 stars Rooney, Wilshere, Piqué, Cahill and Kaka in the EA Christmas TV ad after the jump..... (more...)

image source : vancouver sun FIFA World Rankings updated November 23, 20211 Ranking Nation Points 1 Spain 1564 2 Netherlands 1365 3 Germany 1345 4 Uruguay 1309 5 England 1173 6 Brazil ...