Gianni Infantino on his first visit to Qatar as FIFA president insisted on Friday that the 2022 World Cup would be hosted there as planned.
Newly elected FIFA President Gianni Infantino will visit the next two hosts of the World Cup, Russia and Qatar, next week, the global soccer body said on Friday.
China joined Asian heavyweights Australia and Japan in the next round of World Cup qualifying after stunning Qatar 2-0 in their last Group C match in Xi’an yesterday.
Qatar World Cup organisers say they are considering using Airbnb to house some of the visiting football fans during the World Cup finals in 2022.
China breathed new life into their World Cup dream when they stunned Qatar 2-0 to move to the brink of the next round of qualifying on Tuesday.
England qualified for the World Twenty20 semi-finals and knocked holders Sri Lanka out after a nail-biting 10-run victory in their do-or-die showdown in New Delhi yesterday.
Troubled champions Sri Lanka will need to tame a rampant Chris Gayle as they face the West Indies in the first major test of their defence of cricket’s Twenty20 trophy today.
Pakistan have never defeated India in a World Cup match but coach Waqar Younis is confident his team can break the jinx against the hosts who are smarting from a thumping defeat against New Zealand in their tournament opener.
The German FA's (DFB) inquiry into the 2006 World Cup scandal is set to cost around 3.5 million euros ($3.83m), interim president Rainer Koch has revealed.
There is no evidence of vote-rigging in the awarding of the 2006 soccer World Cup to Germany, according to a report into the scandal.
Pioneering cricketer Martin Crowe, widely acknowledged as New Zealand's greatest batsman who laid the foundations for Twenty20 cricket, was hailed a "hero" after he died of cancer aged 53.
The Mall of Qatar, described as ‘one of the largest shopping malls in the world,’ will be opened in the third quarter of this year, a senior official of UrbaCon Trading & Contracting announced.
