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The FIFA Congress on Friday voted an amendment to the world football governing body's statutes to allow the awarding of two World Cup hosts at the same time. The decision is pending approval of the FIFA Council and could lead to both the 2030 and 2034 editions being signed off at the same time, with Saudi Arabia set to be awarded the latter. FIFA president Gianni Infantino said that a virtual Congress would be held on December 11 to "potentially" decide on the 2030 and 2034 hosts. The process is more of a formality, since there is only one bid for each year. Morocco, Portugal and Spain made a ...
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German officials remain confident that their joint bid with Belgium and the Netherlands for the 2027 women's World Cup will be successful in Friday's vote at the congress of the ruling body FIFA. German Football Federation (DFB) president Bernd Neuendorf said he was holding many talks in the final countdown to the Bangkok vote to convince FIFA members of the bid, with Brazil the only rival. "We'll throw everything into it to make sure we come out on top at the end of the day after all," Neuendorf said. "We are very confident. We believe that we have submitted an excellent bid and will do every...
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Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeneß said during a testimony on Monday that he knew nothing about the purpose of an alleged payment from French entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the late German football great Franz Beckenbauer. "I don't know what the money was for," Hoeneß said and ruled out the possibility that the money was used to buy votes to award Germany the 2006 World Cup. "FIFA was a pretty corrupt bunch back then. You could even think about buying a World Cup. But I'm still convinced that the German Football Federation (DFB) and Germany didn't do that. I'm sure of that," Hoe...
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Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeneß said during a testimony on Monday that he knew nothing about the purpose of an alleged payment from French entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the late German football great Franz Beckenbauer. "I don't know what the money was for," Hoeneß said and ruled out the possibility that the money was used to buy votes to award Germany the 2006 World Cup. "FIFA was a pretty corrupt bunch back then. You could even think about buying a World Cup. But I'm still convinced that the German Football Federation (DFB) and Germany didn't do that. I'm sure of that," Hoe...
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The Germany players who won the 2014 World Cup in Rio Janeiro are to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their title in South Tyrol in autumn. "We're incredibly happy that the 2014 World Cup winners and their support team will be celebrating their 10th anniversary with us at the Hotel Andreus," the Fink family, who run the hotel, said on Friday in response to a dpa enquiry. The team, then coached by Joachim Löw, gathered at the Hotel Andreus for their preparations to the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
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Franz Beckenbauer considered resigning as 2006 World Cup organizing committee chief in connection with a mysterious payment, a lawyer told a Frankfurt regional court on Thursday during a tax evasion trial against former German football top officials. German Football Federation (DFB) lawyer Jan Olaf Leisner said Beckenbauer, who died in January, considered this move at one meeting because the matter "was getting too much for him." In the trial, former DFB presidents Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, as well as ex-DFB secretary general Horst R Schmidt, are charged with tax evasion because t...
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Franz Beckenbauer considered resigning as 2006 World Cup organizing committee chief in connection with a mysterious payment, a lawyer told a Frankfurt regional court on Thursday during a tax evasion trial against former German football top officials. German Football Federation (DFB) lawyer Jan Olaf Leisner said Beckenbauer, who died in January, considered this move at one meeting because the matter "was getting too much for him." In the trial, former DFB presidents Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, as well as ex-DFB secretary general Horst R Schmidt, are charged with tax evasion because t...
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Switzerland's Marco Odermatt clinched a first career downhill World Cup trophy and a fourth overall in one season without skiing when the final downhill race was cancelled on Sunday in Austria. Overnight snowfall, piste problems and high winds did not make racing possible in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, with the cancellation coming after two delays and all efforts in vain to make the last 2023-24 race happen. The cancellation means that Odermatt retained his 42-point lead over French skier Cyprien Sarrazin to win the discipline trophy. Odermatt won the downhill world title last year but only managed ...
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Switzerland's Marco Odermatt clinched a first career downhill World Cup trophy and a fourth overall in one season without skiing when the final downhill race was cancelled on Sunday in Austria. Overnight snowfall, piste problems and high winds did not make racing possible in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, with the cancellation coming after two delays and all efforts in vain to make the last 2023-24 race happen. The cancellation means that Odermatt retained his 42-point lead over French skier Cyprien Sarrazin to win the discipline trophy. Odermatt won the downhill world title last year but only managed ...
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Austria's Daniel Huber soared to victory in the ski jumping season-ender in Slovenia on Sunday to clinch the ski flying World Cup trophy. Huber recorded 247 and 242.5 metres on the huge Planica hill for a big win 43.4 points ahead of local star Domen Prevc, with Poland's Aleksander Zniszczol completing the podium in third. Overall World Cup champion Stefan Kraft came fourth and with it narrowly lost the ski flying trophy duel against countryman Huber. The huge crowd not only celebrated the podium from Domen Prevc but also gave his brother Peter Prevc an emotional farewell from the sport. Forme...
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