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Gillette Stadium's FieldTurf surface has now earned FIFA 2-Star recommended status – for the second consecutive year. It is now the only field in the United States to have successfully passed FIFA 2-Star tests in back-to-back years. When the FieldTurf was initially tested in 2010, Gillette Stadium’s surface marked the only field in the United ...

EA SPORTS is bringing the swag with the EA VIP kits to celebrate the launch of the new version of EA SPORTS FIFA 12 due to hit stores on Tuesday, 9/27. The FIFA12 EA VIP kit is a all white high gloss box that has a net pattern routed out in the wood with a net lasered plex lid.  The kit’s contents contain Beats By Dre Headphones, a custom engraved ...

via FIFA The FIFA Ethics Committee, under the chairmanship of Claudio Sulser (Switzerland), has today decided to ban Guyana FA president Colin Klass from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) for a period of 26 months and fined 5,000 CHF, after he was found to have breached various articles of the FIFA ...

FIFA's legal director, Marco Villiger, says footballs' governing body wants to set up a web-based transfer system which clubs would have to use as a financial clearing house for all player transactions. The governing body, has already set up an online database last year to match transfer documents from clubs involved in a transaction. This, in ...

1 Spain 2 Netherlands 3 Germany 4 Uruguay 5 Portugal The rest of the Top 50 after the jump.... (more...)

via FIFA The FIFA Appeal Committee, under the chairmanship of Francisco Acosta (Ecuador), has confirmed today the decisions taken by the FIFA Ethics Committee on 23 July 2011 regarding the ban on FIFA Executive Committee member Mohammed bin Hammam for a breach of the FIFA Code of Ethics. The appeal made by Mohammed bin Hammam has been rejected ...

ESPNsoccernet is reporting that "Sepp Blatter is seriously considering a motion to quit as FIFA president in two years rather than serve his full term in office," according to sources. Sepp Blatter stepping away from FIFA in less than two years is rumored to be part of a secret deal between the two most powerful men in world soccer designed to ease ...

Russia 12 : 8 Brazil Scoring Summary Russia: Egor SHAYKOV (1'50" , 5'26") Ilya LEONOV (7'19" , 24'01") Egor EREMEEV (12'14" , 18'16") Alexey MAKAROV (14'19" , 19'46") BETINHO (20'16" OG) Dmitry SHISHIN (20'44" , 30'25" , 31'02") Brazil: ANDRE (7'46" PEN , 10'22" , 29'54" , 32'39" , 33'14" , 34'01") BETINHO (16'03") SIDNEY (21'35")