UEFA still waiting on Champions League final report
UEFA has still to be notified when the independent review into the chaotic scenes at May's Champions League final will be published.
France Sport News
World Cup digest: Minister wants holders to make voices heard on human rights
The French sports minister urged the national football team on Thursday to make themselves heard amid a row over FIFA's threat of sanctions for the OneLove armband.
Le Graet speaks out on political campaign of Qatar 2022
President of the French Football Federation Noël Le Graet has emphasized that the Western media campaign against the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ was exaggerated, adding that in France we usually tend to exaggerate matters when dealing with some issues.
Fans at World Cup pay homage to football great Diego Maradona with shirts and chants
DOHA: Javier Maluf will quietly put on a shirt worn by Diego Maradona against England, but other fans at the World Cup have more noisy plans for Friday’s second anniversary of the death of the flawed genius. Argentina’s legion of supporters may also be praying to the sporting gods that the late football great can still inspire his country to victory over Mexico on Saturday to keep their hopes in Qatar alive. Maluf is like many Argentina fans who have never fully recovered from Maradona’s death from a heart attack at the age of 60.
French sports minister urges national team to speak up in armband row
DOHA : The French sports minister urged the national football team on Thursday to make themselves heard amid a row over FIFA's threat of sanctions for the "OneLove" armband.
World Cup host Qatar must conquer nerves before Senegal
DOHA: There’s a good chance the World Cup will go from bad to worse for the Qatar team if the players don’t conquer their nerves when they face African champion Senegal in their second group match. The Qataris are already the first hosts to lose the opening game of a World Cup after they were overwhelmed by their nation’s biggest sporting occasion in a 2-0 Group A defeat to Ecuador on Sunday. That puts them in danger of also being only the second host after South Africa in 2010 to be eliminated in the group stage.
Giroud targets scoring record as France face Denmark
DOHA: Olivier Giroud will bid to become France's all-time top scorer when they face Denmark in Group D at the World Cup on Saturday (Nov 26), with 'Les Blues' looking for a victory that will take them into the round of 16 with a game to spare in Qatar.
Bok star Kolbe to quit France for Japan move?
Springbok utility back Cheslin Kolbe could reportedly leave French giants Toulon to take up a lucrative deal in Japan before the start of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.