FIFA, who is touted by financial pundits as a sponsor-reliant nonprofit entity with a rainy day fund of $1.4 billion in cash, has policies in place for players who wish to capitalize their screen time in matches by subtly showing off symbols, images or anything that links to their personal or club sponsors.
Daily Mail said senior Adidas officials were reportedly engaged in an emergency meeting on Thursday following the ban issuance to work out a position on the controversial football player. It has been said that Adidas has already dropped Suarez from all of its commercial activities for the rest of this year's World Cup and has already planned high-level talks with the player and his representatives at the end of the tournament.
Although the punishment was not as grave as the maximum penalty FIFA could impose based on its disciplinary code, the ban itself could threaten the Uruguayan's career after the World Cup. This means that Suarez would be missing 13 Liverpool games aside from the ones Uruguay would be playing in the tournament, Daily Mail explained.
On Wednesday, FIFA confirmed that its disciplinary committee has launched an investigation on the incident, which was caught on international television. The probe was opened just hours after the end of Tuesday's match in Natal. FIFA has reportedly asked Uruguayan team officials to provide their evidence by 8PM GMT on Wednesday.
When Brazilian striker Fred scored a goal after 49 minutes into the game, millions of viewers thought that the assistant referee in the game had made the wrong call. During a replay of that moment on FIFA TV, a graphic showed the offside line from the position of a Cameroon player and not of the Brazilian striker.
Bosnia and Herzegovina fans are not convinced that Nigeria did secure that victory. Buzzfeed said that a goal by Bosnian's Edin Dzeko was incorrectly ruled out for offside minutes ahead of Odemwingie's goal. A petition on Change.org is calling for O'Leary's ouster, with over 23,000 backing the call to remove the referee who made the offside goal call.
FIFA Vice President Jim Boyce was quoted as saying that that anyone who is involved with fixing football matches should be criminally penalized with heavt jail sentences and a ban from the game for life.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho recently claimed that FIFA is badly organized, and that the world soccer body was inconsistent with their match scheduling and pitches at the 2014 World Cup, Daily Mail reported.
FIFA head of media Delia Fischer has shot down these allegations and denied an additional report that the organization can pay compensation of their officials in cash at the latter's request.
NDTV said on Saturday's match between Ghana and Germany, a bearded man invaded the ongoing game, taking off his shirt and revealing what seemed to be a protest of some sort. He was later on escorted by Ghanian player Sulley Muntari.
Coach Louis van Gaal of the Netherlands has launched a trade, of which Daily Mail noted is no longer alien to Manchester United supporters, who has claimed that FIFA has succumbed to dirty "tricks" and a lack of "fair play" via alleged fixed World Cup matches.
FIFA has officially banned the Cameroon midfielder from playing for his team in the next three matches in the tournament for elbowing elbowing Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic during their otherwise very heated match on Wednesday.
The probe was launched when anti-discrimination group Fare reported the incident to FIFA for its use of homophobic language. Fare also reported the use of the offensive language in one of its World Cup matches. The Mexican Football Association was later charged with improper conduct.
Telling reporters, Mexico coach Miguel Herrera was quoted by NPR as saying that the homophobic slur Mexico fans used against Brazil during the match was just their way of pressuring the opposing team to not make a goal.
The Telegraph's reporters and a former FIFA investigator, posing as an investment company looking to "sponsor" games, met registered FIFA agent Christopher Forsythe and senior official in the Ghanaian FA Obed Nketiah.
The Bleacher Report said tweets about the water break that was called in the 39th minute of the game flooded in. Citing The Weather Channel report, the humidity in Manaus was reportedly at 70%.
FIFA did not offer any explanation on its website on whether they or Humberto Clavijo of Colombia had pulled out from the match, or whether Clavijo will be expected to assist in future games.
Yahoo Sports said that FIFA has earlier imposed a new set of measures in the hopes of curbing such behavior at least during the World Cup tournament. The sports blog observed that the new rules could be viewed as cruel, even to players, who are usually targets of such acts.
Police believed that some of the fans who have purchased the hard-to-get-by tickets on the black market tried to pass them off as legitimate purchases by coming into matches supposedly disabled and in wheelchairs. The news report said that many of the concession tickets reserved for the disabled had fallen into unscrupulous individuals.
Daily Mail said the decision to investigate in the matter started when the Fare network contacted he world soccer body relating to discriminatory chanting at the World Cup. The allegations had centered on the use of a word that when translated to English, means "whore."
