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The 55-year-old Frenchman was provisionally suspended from football for his alleged involvement in a scheme to profit from the sale of World Cup tickets. He was relieved from his duties on September 17, last year, after being accused of a series of FIFA ethics code breaches. “The FIFA emergency committee decided, on January 9, 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA secretary general with immediate effect. Valcke is therefore no longer the secretary general of FIFA,” FIFA said in a statement on Wednesday....

In this segment, we take a look at Guinea’s U-17 team and guide you through their journey to the world cup, highlighting their achievements, key players, coach and much more. INTRODUCTION Country: Guinea Confederation: CAF (Africa)Nicknames: Le Syli Cadet (Junior National Elephants)Coach: Souleymane Camara PAST RECORDS AND LAURELS The Guinean youth side has made four appearances at the Under-17 World Cup. The side participated in their first FIFA U-17 World Cup in the year 1985, having grabbed a fourth position finish which is their best till date....

The tickets for the opening match Brazil vs Spain where sold out online weeks before the tournament started; the tickets for the other matches were also sold out days before the first match. In fact, the fans were disappointed to hear the news that the capacity for the World Cup was reduced to 29,200 due to security reasons just before the tournament started, and they started running around and asking friends to see if any tickets were available to take a glimpse of their favourite team play....

“I just want to serve the team in whatever way is best for the team,” Mewis told Sporting News. “I hope I get opportunities to play, but whatever’s best for the team I’m ready and willing to play whatever role I need to.” In the first two games of what U.S. Soccer labels the “Send-Off Series” prior to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Mewis has emerged as the best player on the field whenever she has been on the field....

Two of them will come from the intercontinental playoffs between a handful of qualifying hopefuls: Australia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Peru, and the United Arab Emirates. The Australia vs. UAE winner on June 7 will face Peru on June 13, while Costa Rica and New Zealand have a winner-take-all showdown on June 14. The third World Cup qualifier will come from the delayed European playoff path which saw three teams begin with dreams of qualifying and only two teams still in with a chance to claim the lone spot....

President Uhuru Kenyatta received the World Cup trophy in a colorful ceremony held at State House, Nairobi, in readiness for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Speaking at the function, President Kenyatta was clear that the Kenyan government is committed to support local talent saying the country should not give up hope of playing in the World Cup. The President was grateful to Fifa was for the opportunity and called for more partnerships to nurture talent in all Counties....

According to KMBC News, several fights erupted in the parking lot of Pleasant Hill High School, in Cass County, after the Pleasant Hill Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of making masks a requirement in its educational settings. Reporter Brian Johnson said “people were actually throwing fists and hitting each other” during the chaos, which only dissipated once sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene. Several officers were reportedly called out to the school to deal with the disturbance, while at least one man was filmed being led away in handcuffs....

The 1.0 release of Them’s Fightin’ Herds comes with a major addition. Story Mode: Chapter 1 is now available to all Them’s Fightin’ Herds players. The first chapter of the story focused on the character Arizona, the cattlekind rushdown fighter. Them’s Fightin’ Herds’ story mode isn’t just some Street Fighter-esque arcade mode, though. It mixes RPG and adventure game mechanics in with the fights, making for something uniquely special....

Morocco’s government said its troops had acted to open the road, stop the blockading of traffic and end “provocations” by the Polisario Front, which has been fighting for independence from the kingdom since the 1970s in the Western Sahara region. Morocco is America’s oldest official diplomatic ally, having signed a treaty of peace and friendship with the new country in 1786—the longest unbroken relationship in U.S. history. As President Trump seeks to end all “forever wars” before his term ends, Trump or President-elect Joe Biden may be faced with choosing between intervention or refusing to become embroiled in another conflict in Western Sahara, as both Rabat and Washington, D....

It’s a great line, destined to be much quoted. It’s also not a bad description of Mitchell’s boundary-breaking movie, his first since the cult hit “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” There’s a distinct echo of the ’60s in Mitchell’s open embrace of sexuality in all its gender-blurring varieties, but the idealism of what in those days was called “the sexual revolution” comes tempered by three decades of AIDS, neofundamentalism and Internet pornography....

The most infamous copycats come from cinema. Take a popular series, prefix it with a country, and fans will find a plethora of films that took ‘inspiration’ from another. There’s Turkish Star Wars (The Man Who Saved the Earth), Italian Jaws (Cruel Jaws), British The Longest Yard (Mean Machine), and more. It happens to other media too, as these films have copied video games to one degree or another....

RELATED: Final Fantasy: Everything Wrong With The Series Today (& How To Fix It) Fans have been delighted with many amazing stories over the years, but some of the best tales that Square Enix has given the fandom aren’t without their heartbreak. The franchise has seen its fair share of character deaths, so check out these saddest deaths from one of the best gaming series out there. Naturally, there are spoilers ahead....

RELATED: 5 RPGs We’re Looking Forward To In 2020 (& 5 We’re Not) You can often decide which magic spells your mages learn (some are locked as a result of the system) or in which order, which can be a little confusing for newer players. Which spells should you prioritize and which can you safely do without in Final Fantasy X, for instance? Let’s take a look. 10 Learn Immediately: Curaga In some titles, expert players are able to cruise all the way through without taking a single hit....

RELATED: Final Fantasy 14: 10 Classes From The Franchise That Could Still Be Added As well as the main scenario and dungeons, there are many optional elements to the game and one of these features is collectible minions, small vanity pets that follow the player around. Many players actively collect these cute little critters, but they’re not all easy to obtain. Check out ten of the rarest minions currently within the game, though we’ve excluded event/purchasable minions that are no longer obtainable....

Final Fantasy 14 completely re-designed itself after an initially poor reception and has since become one of the few MMOs that has been able to maintain a pay-to-play model while retaining a playerbase. Although it would have been easy to take a break after Final Fantasy 14 was essentially torn down and built up nearly from scratch 2 years ago, developer Square Enix has been hard at work ensuring the new approach isn’t just temporary....

Last week, Final Fantasy 14 revealed the preliminary patch notes for 6.3, and went into detail about what players could expect in the update as far as story and instanced content go. Between the Lapis Manalis dungeon, the new story quest trial against a secret boss, and the Euphrosyne alliance raid, players that enjoy group content will not be disappointed in this update. In addition, more content ranging from the loporrit tribe quests for crafters to the next chapter in the Manderville relic weapon saga will be available at a later date in Patch 6....

Cosplaying as various pop-culture characters has long been a staple in the world of Etheirys, such as the time a Final Fantasy 14 player dressed up as Colonel Sanders, showing up randomly all over Eorzea alongside his feathered nemesis. Between female Roegadyn players putting on their finest costumes of Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil, or male Lalafell players trying their best to resemble the titular protagonist of Super Mario – cosplay glamours are a fun exercise in creativity....

While Final Fantasy 15 had no plans for the Switch as of six months ago, it appears that half a year goes a long way in changing a publisher’s mind. Square Enix hosted a panel on Twitch during Gamescom that featured Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata, who had something very interesting to say via translator regarding the future of the extremely popular Final Fantasy title: Tabata also stated that nearly everyone on the Final Fantasy 15 team loves the Switch, which seems to indicate that the development team would be more receptive to doing the work that would be required to bring the game over to Nintendo’s darling console....

However, before all of that happens, English publication Mirror has released the ratings of three of the top Premier League clubs - Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea - with the help of gamer and programmer Lucas Pezzatti’s Twitter. In case you didn’t know… EA Sports are all set to publish FIFA 18 ratings later today but whether those are player ratings or team ratings remains to be seen. The latest reveal is expected to keep the fans of the newest release on their toes....

Brazilian star Ronaldo has been given an ICON rating of 94 for FIFA Ultimate Team as a teaser to the FUT Live stream on August 1. Brazil 13/2 to win World Cup The card shared by EA shows the Real Madrid legend with 93 ratings for pace, dribbling and shooting and 80 ratings for passing and physical ability. Monchi: No third Mahrez bid While his attacking talents are well remembered, EA have given the Brazilian just a 46 rating for his work defensively....