FIFA – The Commerce Africa https://thecommerceafrica.com African Reneissance Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:14:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 Arsenal knocked out of women’s Champions League by Paris FC https://thecommerceafrica.com/arsenal-knocked-out-of-womens-champions-league-by-paris-fc/ https://thecommerceafrica.com/arsenal-knocked-out-of-womens-champions-league-by-paris-fc/#respond Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:06:44 +0000 https://thecommerceafrica.com/?p=15033 Arsenal suffered an early exit from the Women’s Champions League on Saturday after losing on penalties to French side Paris FC in the first stage of qualifying.

Arsenal, who won the competition in 2007 and reached the semi-finals last year, scored late goals through Alessia Russo and Jen Beattie to cancel out Mathilde Bourdieu’s quickfire double and take the match into extra time.

After Louise Fleury scored in the 106th minute, Russo bagged her second to force a shootout, but Arsenal’s new signing had her spot-kick saved by Chiamaka Nnadozie as the English side lost 4-2 on penalties.

Arsenal, who finished third in the Women’s Super League table last season, begin their domestic campaign at home to Liverpool on Oct. 1.

Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond for Reuters Soccer

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FIFA Suspends Trinidad and Tobago https://thecommerceafrica.com/fifa-suspends-trinidad-and-tobago/ https://thecommerceafrica.com/fifa-suspends-trinidad-and-tobago/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:51:50 +0000 http://thecommerceafrica.com/?p=2077 FIFA suspended Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday for “grave violations” of its statutes following a local court challenge to its imposition of a new committee, following serious mismanagement.

World football’s governing body said the Caribbean island nation would not be allowed back in until it recognised the legitimacy of the “normalisation committee” installed by FIFA to run its affairs.

“The Bureau of the FIFA Council today suspended the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) with immediate effect due to grave violations of the FIFA statutes,” the organisation said in a statement.

“The suspension was prompted by the former leadership of the TTFA lodging a claim before a local court in Trinidad and Tobago in order to contest the decision of the FIFA Council to appoint a normalisation committee for the TTFA.”

FIFA and Trinidad have a turbulent history.

In May, Swiss prosecutors opened a fresh investigation which marked the latest in a string of allegations involving Trinidad’s long-serving FIFA official Jack Warner.

The former FIFA vice president, who has been banned from football for life, is battling extradition to the United States to face charges of racketeering and conspiracy as part of a global graft probe into world football’s governing body.

The Swiss investigation targeted former FIFA chief Sepp Blatter for suspected criminal mismanagement of funds over a decade-old $1 million payment.

The probe is connected with a loan FIFA gave to the TTFA in 2010, which was given interest-free, with no collateral, and was quickly forgiven as a “subsidy”, a document seen by AFP showed.

AFP

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