Holders Pyramids and record champions Al Ahly both crashed out of the African Champions League quarter‑finals on Saturday, losing to Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces and Tunisian...
Argentina will face Mauritania and Zambia this month in World Cup warm-up matches, the South American nation’s football body (AFA) said on Friday. Argentina had been...
By Kunle Solaja. FIFA has officially kicked off the musical build-up to the 2026 World Cup with the release of “Lighter,” the first single from the...
Chuck Norris, the former martial arts champion and 1980s action-film hero who fought the bad guys in “Code of Silence,” “Missing in Action” and “The Delta...
Intelligence briefings reviewed by Reuters have warned of the potential for extremists and criminals to target the World Cup at a time when hundreds of millions...
Sardar Azmoun, one of Iran’s top soccer players, has been expelled from the national team for a perceived act of disloyalty to the government, Iranian media...
By Kunle Solaja. FIFA is unlikely to relocate Iran’s group-stage matches at the 2026 World Cup from the United States to Mexico, despite a formal request...
The Nigerian boxing landscape has been thrown into uncertainty following reports that the Nigerian Boxing Federation (NBF) is considering steps to regulate professional boxing—an area traditionally...
Lionel Messi scored his 900th career goal on Wednesday to become the second player to reach the mark in elite men’s football after Cristiano Ronaldo. The...
The Iranian national team are continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament even if they...