SAFA vice-president Dr Danny Jordaan has been appointed as special advisor to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Jordaan has also been appointed to work with Alexy Sorokin, the head of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The appointment was ratified by FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland this past week.
Jordaan will serve on the World Cup Organising committee which is comprised of the world’s top football administrators including FIFA President Sepp Blatter, continental confederation Presidents and the entire FIFA executive.
I am very proud and excited to have been asked to serve on this vital committee which supports the backbone of FIFA s business model. The 2010 World Cup ,which was acknowledged as the most successful ever, generated a massive US$4,2 billion, the pro…
Spain forward Joselu hopes to end former Real Madrid team-mate Toni Kroos career by defeating Germany in Friday s Euro 2024 quarter-final.
Kroos and Joselu played together under Carlo Ancelotti s Los Blancos last campaign as the Germany international signed off his club career with Champions League and LaLiga glory.
The 34-year-old midfielder has already confirmed the UEFA tournament on home soil will end his glittering playing days, as an enticing last-eight clash awaits in Stuttgart.
Joselu is aiming to put sentiment aside and force Kroos hand into retirement when Luis de la Fuente s in-form side meet Julian Nagelsmann s hosts at Stuttgart Arena.
It s a shame we have to send Toni into retirement like that, but hopefully we will win on Friday and it wil…
For the first time since Pep Guardiola s untried team took the football world by storm in 2008-09, Barcelona enter the new LaLiga season as clear underdogs to their fierce rivals – the reigning Spanish and European champions Real Madrid.
It is a state of affairs that might stir misty-eyed nostalgia for some Barcelona fans.
For decades in this bitterly entwined rivalry, Barca revelled in the righteous role of the downtrodden foe to the mighty Madrid. Striking blows against the capital club and their empire formed a romantic centre point to the carefully cultivated narrative of Mes que un club .
Madrid s title win last season was only their second since Barca s historic first treble. LaLiga has resided in Catalonia for six of the previous nine campaigns – an un…
Premier League giants Manchester City can consider themselves to be quite unfortunate having been placed in the so-called group of their for the fourth time in last five years, but the difference is they look capable of overcoming all the obstacles. It goes without saying that Juventus, Sevilla and Borussia M gladbach will also be hoping to make it to the knockout stages, but since only two of these sides can qualify for the next phase, we are bound to see home highly entertaining yet nervy affairs throughout the Group D campaign.
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While they have won two of last four Premier League title and have emerged as main candidates to make it three out of five, Manchester City cannot seem to catch …
Barely two weeks after the final whistle of Euro 2008, teams from around the continent are heading back to Austria, this time to prepare for their upcoming seasons.
Over half of the German Bundesliga sides, as well as Italian, English, Spanish, Turkish and Romanian clubs in all, about 60 foreign teams are holding their pre-season training camps in the small alpine country, whether in mountainous Vorarlberg in the west, or the plains of Burgenland in the east.
And the Euro can take little credit for this.
The two most prestigious teams, Arsenal and Real Madrid, have been coming here for years: Arsene Wenger s troops will arrive on July 21 for their eighth visit, while the Spaniards, arriving the same day, will be here on their sixth outing.
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Olivier Giroud compared France s tense 2022 World Cup quarter-final win over England to their semi-final victory against Belgium four years ago.
France scraped past the Three Lions 2-1 at Al Bayt Stadium on Saturday, with Giroud s deflected header ultimately the difference.
Aurelien Tchouameni had fired the world champions ahead, but England responded strongly and levelled through a Harry Kane penalty.
Gareth Southgate s side might have equalised a second time following Giroud s goal, only for Kane to fire a second spot-kick over the crossbar.
Victory sends France through to a semi-final against surprise package Morocco, with Didier Deschamps side looking like favourites to retain their crown.
But this tie showed how hard it is to win the World Cu…
The Washington Football Team pulled out all the stops to steal a victory from the clutches of defeat last Sunday but now host a New Orleans Saints team playing with a chip on its shoulder and one finger on the panic button in Week 5.
The 2-2 Saints are slight NFL betting favorites in the nation’s capital, currently giving two points to the Football Team. This will technically be New Orleans’ fourth travel game in the first five weeks after losing the home opener to the Giants in Week 4.
Check out our NFL free picks and predictions for Saints at Washington on October 10.
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Football is king.
It doesn’t matter if we’re in the middle of October, or just kicking off mini-camps and OTAs in the spring: NFL news is non-stop and so is the action at the books, which is why we see more and more NFL odds coming out earlier and earlier.
Each week throughout the offseason, I’ll be digging into the biggest news across the league — and NFL betting landscapes — trying to connect the dots to available markets, like finding an NFL futures odds ticket worth a wager or an early-bird bet to place once we get game odds in the coming weeks.
We start the countdown to kickoff of the 2022 season (September 8) with our weekly NFL betting notebook.
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Officiating does not find its way into many handicaps but with the constant issues seemingly every week, coupled with Roger Goodell’s blind eye to the problems, maybe bettors should take some time and look at who will be in control of Super Bowl 57.
Carl Cheffers will be the head official Sunday, and that isn’t great news for Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, but bettors can find a few ways to cash in on the flag-throwing referee when making their Super Bowl predictions.
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Since going to London in Week 5, the Buffalo Bills have just not looked right offensively. The good news is they can get back on track this week vs. the New England Patriots, who have managed only 35 points over their last four games and enter the Week 7 odds as a hefty 8.5-point home underdog on the NFL odds board.
With the Bills having averaged over 400 yards and 123 points per game in the three games before the travel, can Josh Allen and the offense dominate Sunday on the road even in poor passing conditions?
Here are my free NFL picks and predictions for Week 7 Bills at Patriots on October 22.
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Bills vs Patriots predictions
The Buffalo Bills have had to play back-to-back ga…