Football Federation

By Aris Ravanos

Main opposition SYRIZA leader and former PM Alexis Tsipras while on a visit to Northern Macedonia today declared that implementation of the Prespa Agreement that he and Northern Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev signed (June, 2018) is the best answer to the enemies of the accord and the key to the future.

North Macedonia's Football Federation on Monday asked UEFA to harshly punish Arnautovic, an Austrian player of Serbian descent, for directing an ethnic insult at a player of ethnic Albanian origin from North Macedonia's team.

The federation said it "strongly condemns the nationalist rant of the Austrian representative".

Sports ministers and representatives of the football federations of Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Serbia will hold a workshop in Sofia on February 25, 2019.

A court in the Croatian city of Split fined the Football Federation and its director for not properly inspecting a pitch on which a swastika had been imprinted before an international match in 2015.

President of the Greek Olympic Committee Spyros Kapralos did not rule out the possibility of the Greek Olympic team being banned from taking part in the 2016 Rio Games, in an interview to sports radio ‘Sport FM 94.6″, Wednesday.

Turkey coach Fatih Terim and Football Federation (TFF) chief Yıldırım Demirören are facing pressure to quit, as the country’s chances of qualifying for Euro 2016 appear increasingly remote even though qualifying has only just begun