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Fox Sports World Espanol, the Spanish-language US sports network, will broadcast coverage of this season’s Major League Soccer which runs throughout the summer.

Television distributor Venevision International has been chosen by satellite broadcaster DirecTV to sub-license the rights to the 2002 soccer World Cup in a number of Latin American nations.

UEFA chief Lennart Johansson launched an astonishing attack on FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Tuesday in the continuing fallout from the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISMM/ISL.

South American Football (CSF) president Nicolas Leoz guaranteed that the Copa America would go ahead in Colombia next month as planned despite the kidnapping of a leading local official and threats against the Argentina team.

South America's top international soccer tournament, the Copa America, due to be held in Colombia next month, was put on hold until a kidnapped senior Colombian soccer official is freed, a Colombian spokesman said.

The Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) said it submitted on Thursday what it believes to be a winning bid to host next month's Copa America soccer tournament after South America's federations vetoed Colombia over concerns of kidnapping and violence.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter faces the toughest fight of his career this week when delegates from around 200 national associations meet in Buenos Aires for FIFA's Extraordinary Congress.

Colombian Football Federation president Alvaro Fina said he would personally ask South America's top players to come to his troubled nation to take part in next year's Copa America.

The best rugby players from the northern and southern hemispheres will play each other in an annual grudge match starting next year, the International Rugby Board (IRB) announced on Thursday.

Korean FA president and FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon, a potential successor to FIFA president Sepp Blatter, has contradicted his superior ahead of a crucial FIFA executive meeting in Buenos Aires today.

Colombia is engaged in an intense counter offensive to reclaim the Copa America soccer tournament for this month and avoid a major economic disaster.

The Copa America will take place in Colombia this month as originally planned, reversing a decision to postpone the tournament due to violence in the Andean country, the organisers said on Thursday.

Brazilian media giant Traffic was a key player in Thursday’s decision to go ahead with the Copa America, according to reports.

The Argentine football federation (AFA) has been in frantic last minute negotiations with three banks in order to find the $35m (B

Argentina's Boca soccer club has paid out $1.2million (B

Eight out of the ten soccer clubs that make up the Paraguayan Primera Division are bankrupt says Dario Caceres, president of Sportivo Luquenyo.