FIFA is deeply saddened by the tragic incidents which led to the death of football fans and others at match in Port Said (Egypt). As expressed by President Blatter in a letter to the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), FIFA is in mourning and our thoughts are with the families of all those who lost their [...]
FC Barcelona received the FIFA Club World Cup Champions Badge, a physical reminder of the club’s emphatic triumph in FIFA’s annual club event in Japan in December 2011. Following on from individual awards for Pep Guardiola and Lionel Messi at the FIFA Ballon d’Or, the Champions badge is an award for the whole team, serving [...]
Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2011, his third consecutive title while Japan’s Homare Sawa claimed her first FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award at the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala held at the Zurich Kongresshaus. Pep Guardiola, the Spanish coach of FC Barcelona, and Japan’s women’s national team coach Norio Sasaki [...]
The FIFA Executive Committee took advantage of the FIFA Club World Cup 2011 played in Japan to stage its last meeting of the year in Tokyo. Chaired by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, the Executive congratulated the hosts, Japan, on their state-of-the-art tournament organisation, particularly bearing in mind the disaster which hit the country in [...]
