Barcelona star Lionel Messi has beaten Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk to the Best FIFA Men's Player award.

Attention has been focused on Iran since a woman killed herself after being detained for trying to enter a football match. FIFA has been pushing for Iran to lift a 40-year-old ban on women attending matches.

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino met with President Trump at the White House on Monday to discuss preparations for the 2026 World Cup as well as bringing equality to the women's game.

Mooketsi Kgotlele, the former head of the Botswana Football Association, has been banned for life for accepting bribes in relation to international matches. Which games were concerned remains a mystery.

While FIFA celebrates women's football at the World Cup in France, it tramples it underfoot in other regions. For its president Gianni Infantino, the sexual abuse of Afghan national players is only an annoying side note.

FIFA has for the first time admitted a violation in workers' standards as Qatar prepares for the 2022 World Cup. The revelation comes following an investigative report by German broadcaster WDR.

Gianni Infantino has been reelected president of FIFA, after running unopposed. He said that the organization has been transformed into being "synonymous with credibility."

Russian president Vladimir Putin awards FIFA President Infantino with the Order of Friendship for his "enormous contribution in the organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup." "I would simply like to thank you dear president and thank all the people of Russia and congratulate you as well for having hosted and organized the best World Cup ever last year ", says FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the ceremony.

A soccer pitch has been unveiled in Sochi, made entirely from recycled beer cups from the 2018 FIFA World Cup as part of a drive to be 'socially responsible' with plastic.

Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected unopposed on Thursday as president of European soccer's ruling body UEFA, urging mutual respect between his organisation and world soccer's governing body FIFA.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented President Trump with his very own red card during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

FIFA World Cup ambassador and former Miss Russia Victoria Lopyreva called on England fans to come to Russia and support their team on Monday (July 9) despite difficult relations between Britain and Russia.