African football’s governing body found to have $16m in expenses missing from accounts | Soccer

The Confederation of African Football’s audit and compliance committee has claimed that more than $16m of “unrecognised expenses” were not included in official accounts, meaning it should have posted losses of more than $25m. A letter sent to members of Caf’s executive committee last Saturday and seen by the Guardian alleges that its review of…

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Attack changes Sheffield football’s Javarius Triplett

What should’ve been a normal walk home from football practice for Sheffield senior running back Javarius Triplett, on Aug. 22, was anything but. “Trip, you need a ride home?” coach Edward Kuykendoll remembers an assistant asking. “No, sir, I’m gonna walk,” Triplett responded. It was the Thursday before Sheffield’s season opener against Cordova. As Triplett…

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Hidden from the world, North Korea have nurtured football’s latest golden generation | Women’s football

They’re coming for you. They’re coming for you. North Korea’s women’s football age-group pathway teams, they’re coming for. Well, pretty much anyone in their way, it seems, after the weekend. As elite club football pored in microscopic detail over the fallout from events at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday evening, something remarkable, if a little…

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