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DILI (13 June 2017) – South Korea’s football association Tuesday said it wanted talks with China and Japan about a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup along with North Korea, an initiative aimed at easing tensions in the region. The South’s new President Moon Jae-In first proposed the ambitious idea to FIFA chief…
DILI (21 May 2017) – The Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) Club Licensing Task Force agreed to commission a benchmarking report into the ‘Asian club football landscape’ at their meeting at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the Task Force meeting, chaired by Shoji Fujimura of Japan, it was decided the report would analyse financial…
DILI (25 April 2017) – The development of world refereeing took centre stage in Asia on Tuesday as some of the biggest names in world refereeing gathered for the opening of the inaugural Refereeing Experts Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The two-day workshop, which the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has organised, aims to understand the…
DILI (21 April 2017) – Forty-three Asian hopefuls now know their qualifying opponents following Friday’s draw at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. 2016 champions, Japan, having finally claimed the crown after six previous appearances in the final, will face Thailand, Singapore and Mongolia, who are scheduled to host the Group I qualifiers. Saudi Arabia, runners-up at…
DILI (11 April 2017) – The United States, Mexico and Canada on Monday announced a joint bid to stage the 2026 World Cup, aiming to become the first three-way co-hosts in the history of FIFA’s showpiece tournament. US Soccer Federation chief Sunil Gulati, who announced the bid in New York with his Canadian and Mexican…
DILI (8 April 2017) – FIFA on Friday announced a $369 million loss for 2016, a second straight annual deficit, as it recovers from bribery scandals and acknowledged it had spent a huge chunk of its reserves in the past year. The game’s world governing body blamed the cost of investigating the scandals, bad investments…