The German soccer federation has ruled out a boycott of the World Cup despite calls from within to send a message to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Germany midfielder Leon Goretzka says in an interview with Die Zeit newspaper that U_S_ President Donald Trump “has managed to make us feel not only German, but also European.”.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Donald Trump and his administration at home and abroad.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s public support for Donald Trump and a peace prize awarded to the U.S. president are the subjects of formal complaints to the global soccer body’s ethics investigators.

Swiss federal prosecutors have finally ended their case against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini after 10 years and acquittals after two trials.

When the Olympic movement and international soccer lived through very public corruption crises, both agreed to limit the terms of their presidents in an effort to protect them in the future.

A reputation built over decades that European soccer body UEFA is the good guy compared to FIFA as a cartoon caricature villain is being tested in this tough season for off-field politics.

Kevin-Prince Boateng set soccer on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination when he walked off the field to protest racial abuse by an opposing team’s fans a decade ago.

The vicious, relentless and high-profile racist insults directed at Brazilian soccer player Vinícius Júnior underscore an entrenched and decades-old issue that refuses to go away in the world's most popular sport.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been re-elected by acclaim to another four-year term after suggesting the financial results under his leadership would keep an industry CEO in the job for life.

FIFA says it has earned record revenues of $7.5 billion in the four years of commercial deals tied to the World Cup in Qatar.

Former Germany captain Philipp Lahm says it was “a mistake” to award the World Cup to Qatar.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago.

The first World Cup in the Middle East is only one month away.

FIFA will introduce new technology to improve offside calls at the World Cup in Qatar this year, using a limb-tracking camera system.

The name “FIFA” can bring to mind images of the World Cup and soccer’s greatest players.

Wearing masks because of the coronavirus and with their arms folded and heads bowed, they were charged with murder, attempted murder, robbery and firearm offenses. It cast doubt on an announcement by police on Monday — the sixth anniversary of Meyiwa's killing — that they had arrested the five that morning in operations in two provinces. A man arrested for Meyiwa's killing in the days after was released due to a lack of evidence. The case appeared to be slipping away from police, who established a “cold case team” in 2018. Police minister Bheki Cele announced the “major breakthrough” in the Meyiwa case and the arrests on Monday but declined to disclose details of the investigation.

LONDON Gianni Infantino can remain FIFA president and should not be forced from power while under criminal investigation, world football's governing body told The Associated Press on Saturday. A Swiss special prosecutor opened a criminal case into Infantino's conduct on Thursday over his meetings with the country's attorney general who has been leading a sprawling investigation into football corruption. There is nothing preventing the president from performing his duties, FIFA said in a statement to the AP. The FIFA president is subject to a criminal investigation by the Swiss judicial authorities," FIFA said, but he has not been charged nor is he guilty of anything. FIFA is convinced that at the end of the current investigations it will be confirmed that the FIFA president didnt do anything wrong by performing his fiduciary duties and meeting the attorney general of Switzerland, FIFA said.

Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack, center, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Monday, June 8, 2020. Lamine Diack jetted the world and rubbed shoulders with VIPs. The most conspicuous absentee was his son, Papa Massata Diack, who lives in Senegal and didn't travel to Paris for the trial. He conducted himself like a thug," Lamine Diack said in court. Prosecutors asked the court for a 4-year prison term and a fine of 500,000 euros ($562,000 ) for Lamine Diack.

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 19, 2018, former FIFA President Joseph Blatter in Moscow, Russia. According to documents Saturday June 13, 2020, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is the target of a new investigation in Switzerland for suspected criminal mismanagement of soccer funds. The Swiss federal prosecution office did not immediately reply to a request for comment from the AP. The Swiss prosecution document does not directly link the timing of FIFAs $1 million payment with the general election in Trinidad and Tobago. A second Swiss criminal proceeding has been open against Blatter since September 2015 related to FIFA payments to former UEFA president Michel Platini.