Archive for February 27th, 2010

FIFA to conduct doping tests before World Cup – Punch (World Cup Football)

FIFA to conduct doping tests before World Cup – Punch
World football governing body, FIFA, said on Monday that will conduct out-of-competition doping tests on prospective World Cup competitors from April. The federation said the blood and urine tests would be held without notice. They would start on April 10 and run until the day before the World Cup

FIFA warns football fans over sale of fake World Cup tickets online – Daily News and Analysis
Fifa has said that it would not issue paper tickets until a few weeks before the competition starts — supplying them to the original applicant at collection points in South division is working with international authorities to monitor the

Falconets inch closer to World Cup ticket – NEXT
The Falconets of Nigeria are just 90 minutes away from qualifying for a fifth successive FIFA U-20 Women World Cup in Germany and the coach of the team, Edet Egan is confident that his girls would qualify for the World Cup when it plays their South

FIFA to conduct doping tests before World Cup – Punch (Football News)

World football governing body, FIFA, said on Monday that will conduct out-of-competition doping tests on prospective World Cup competitors from April. The federation said the blood and urine tests would be held without notice. They would start on April 10 and run until the day before the World Cup World Cup Football Continued

Except that these soccer fans are not sitting in the stadium, but rather in front of a 3D television, far away from the hustle and bustle of FIFA World Cup football in South Africa. 2010 will be the year in which cinema and television make the jump World Cup Football Continued

INTERVIEW-Nike says to win soccer World Cup vs Adidas – CNN Money (World Cup Soccer)

INTERVIEW-Nike says to win soccer World Cup vs Adidas – CNN Money
LONDON (Reuters) – Nike , the world’s largest sporting goods maker, will extend its lead in sales of soccer-related products over rival Adidas helped by new launches and a marketing blitz at this summer’s FIFA World Cup, its chief executive told

FIFA worried about African stimulants at World Cup – CNN Sports Illustrated
SUN CITY, South Africa (AP) — FIFA is afraid that players at the World Cup could use undetectable stimulants derived from traditional African medicines that aren’t currently banned substances. FIFA medical committee chairman Michel D’Hooghe told The

FIFA to conduct doping tests before World Cup – Reuters UK
SUN CITY, South Africa (Reuters) – FIFA will conduct out-of-competition doping tests on prospective World Cup competitors from April, world soccer’s governing body said on Monday. FIFA said the blood and urine tests would be held without notice. They

World Soccer – YAHOO!
A man makes his way across a skywalk into the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Phokeng, near, Rustenburg, South Africa, Saturday Feb 27, 2010 during a FIFA road trip ahead of next week’s 100 day count down to the 2010 soccer World Cup

Stadium unfinished, World Cup tickets unsold – but Fifa defiant – Times Online
Jérôme Valcke confessed yesterday that South Africa is not yet ready to host the World Cup finals, but the Fifa general secretary declared 700,000 tickets for the tournament remain unsold and that Soccer City, the Johannesburg stadium that will

Stadium unfinished, World Cup tickets unsold – but Fifa defiant – Times Online (World Cup Soccer)

Stadium unfinished, World Cup tickets unsold – but Fifa defiant – Times Online
Jérôme Valcke confessed yesterday that South Africa is not yet ready to host the World Cup finals, but the Fifa general secretary declared 700,000 tickets for the tournament remain unsold and that Soccer City, the Johannesburg stadium that will