During FIFA's World Cup in South Africa, football fans may get their drinks served on a coaster with the message: "Don't leave this bar without picking up a condom." At least that is one suggestion from a recent consultation...[more]

FIFA’s international ban on Iraq late last month and ratified at the recent executive committee meeting in Cape Town has had no impact according to the Ahrar Party, which will go into the 2010 election’s to the country’s council...[more]

The British football magazine When Saturday Comes has awarded playthegame.org with a "worthy website Gold award".[more]

American newspaper, the New York Times went to Germany to take a closer look at the state of German football in the wake of the match-fixing scandal.[more]

Hans Klaus, FIFA’s director of communications and public affairs is to leave the world body just six months before next year’s 2010 World Cup.[more]

The fifth world cup for ‘national’ teams that are not members of FIFA will be held in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2012 with up to a dozen teams.[more]

Last month an American journalist was detained and questioned at length by Canadian border guards who wanted to know if she was planning to do any public speaking on the 2010 Winter Olympics. The journalist was shocked, but the...[more]

El Salvador, Samoa and Togo are being monitored by FIFA for political interference and could soon join Iraq and Kuwait in the international wilderness.[more]

FIFA has been forced to call in international crime-fighters Interpol to form a task-force to combat a wave of match-fixing and bribery that is sweeping through the game.[more]

The Asian Football Confederation has condemned the decision by the Iraq Olympic Committee to dissolve the country’s football association.[more]