Many are angry at the $15-billion bill for hosting the competition and next year’s World Cup, which will take place next June.
The football boss’s World Cup strategy backfires as Brazil caves in to protests over spending.
Brazil is bracing for more mass protests after a poll showed most people back demands for improvements to crumbling public services.
Fifa says it is investigating violence in CAR before it decides if the country’s World Cup qualifier against Ethiopia can take place in the nation.
Fifa’s executive committee has met in a prelude to an annual congress that’s considered a landmark moment for Fifa to complete its reform process.
The sports ministry has stated that they are “disappointed and taken aback” that a recent letter to them by Fifa was leaked to the media.
A match-fixing scandal involving the national soccer team is to be investigated by an independent judicial inquiry with backing from Fifa.
Fifa have written to the South African government warning them against a judicial inquiry into the recent soccer match-fixing scandals.
The new head of Fifa’s anti-racism drive has revealed that he intends to meet players involved in recent racial abuse cases.
Football heads have vowed to excise the "cancer" of match-fixing, but said tougher laws were needed to protect the bruised integrity of the sport.
Hundreds of soccer matches have been fixed in a global betting scam in a blow to the image of soccer and a multibillion-dollar industry.
South Africa – tumbling down Fifa’s rankings – can "shock people" and make a bold bid to win the African Cup of Nations, coach Gordon Igesund said.
Soccer body Safa has reinstated its chief and four other leading officials suspended over a match fixing scandal involving the national team.
Interpol has been called in to assist with a criminal investigation into the match-fixing scandal involving Safa, the Hawks said.
A Fifa investigation has uncovered a criminal web of match-fixing syndicates that operated in SA during pre-World Cup 2010 friendly matches.
Hawk-Eye and Goalref execs are hoping for a Frank Lampard-like "ghost goal" at the Club World Cup, where the goal-line technologies are debuting.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his astonishing overhead kick goal against England hours too late to be named best goal in 2012 in a Fifa contest.
Fifa must become fully transparent in order to complete its reform and not even president Joseph Blatter is not safe in his job its ethics body says.
The would-be Fifa president, is accused of using the Asian Football Confederation bank accounts to conduct his private affairs. Graham Dunbar reports.
The AFC has accused its disgraced president Mohammed bin Hammam of bribery after an internal audit showed fresh allegations of financial wrongdoings.
Transparency International says Fifa needs to change its culture and not just introduce new committees if it is to battle corruption in its ranks.
Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not a goal has been scored has been approved by the International Football Association Board.
Sepp Blatter expects the Fifa Congress of World Football Nations to be a lot calmer than the last one, which became mired in corruption allegations.
South Africans will now start to reap the benefits of hosting the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Safa said when it received R450-million from global body Fifa.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter says Fabrice Muamba’s collapse has brought back memories of Marc-Vivien Foe who died in similar circumstances in 2003.
Former head of the Brazil Football Federation Ricardo Teixeira has resigned from Fifa’s executive committee and the Brazilian federation.
Two former Fifa committee members have lost their appeals against two-year bans for corrupt behaviour during bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
A Council of Europe committee has called on Fifa to investigate Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s re-election as the governing body’s head honcho.
Safa has welcomed a delegation of Fifa investigators who have arrived in SA to look into cases of alleged match-fixing ahead of the 2010 World Cup.
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South Sudan was admitted as a member of the Confederation of African Football, with a strong possibility of also joining Fifa in May.
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Safa has lauded the appointment of Tokyo Sexwale to Fifa’s media committee, saying the move epitomised and acknowledged the vital role he has played.
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Safa has confirmed that Fifa will look into allegations that international friendlies in South Africa had been fixed ahead of the 2010 World Cup.