Fifa climbs down on altitude rule
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Fifa raises the altitude limit on international matches to 3,000m after protests from South American countries.
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Elevation. Everyone's familiar with it, but only a rare breed can attain it. It's the intangible that allows a player to make his teammates play beyond their natural abilities.
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FIFA is backing down from its ban on international soccer matches in Bolivia's capital of La Paz.
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World soccer's governing body FIFA officially opened its new $196 million headquarters on Tuesday as delegates arrived for the start of a two-day congress.
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Sport: Fifa called upon by Man Utd to arbitrate in ongoing dispute over Carlos Tevez's future.
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FIFA's president criticized England captain David Beckham for deliberately getting himself suspended for a World Cup qualifier and urged the English Football Association to take action.
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South American countries will learn if their appeal to overturn a ban on matches played at altitude is successful.
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Soccer players worldwide can now compete for an international trophy without having any athletic prowess.
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FIFA is adopting a new world soccer ranking system. It&#039;s easy to see why.
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The European summer is barely over, the Olympic Games have come and gone, and still soccer&#39;s insatiable thirst for do-or-die intensity revs up toward the qualification for the 2006 World Cup.
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The Football Association is holding interviews for its chief executive post.
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FIFA approved a ban on international matches staged at stadiums over 2,750 meters above sea level without acclimatization during an executive committee meeting on Saturday.
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Football's governing body outlaws internationals at high-altitude, angering some Latin American nations.
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FIFA could decide the fate of plans to take Premier League matches around the world as early as next month after the world governing body demanded to see details of the proposals.
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EUROPEAN football could be rocked by proposals setting the minimum number of homegrown players clubs must field. Under new Uefa guidelines, it could be that all clubs in Europe are forced into having between
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Players are to be given extra time to prepare for the 2006 World Cup a Fifa proposal is approved.
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World soccer&#39;s governing body rejected the signing of a female player by a professional men&#39;s team in Mexico. &quot;There must be a clear separation between men&#39;s and women&#39;s football,&quot; FIFA said from its Swiss headquarters Sunday.