Tag: Argentine Football Association (AFA)

• Wednesday, August 12th 2026 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentina to mark every July 15 with the World Cup win that revived the Falklands dispute

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has established July 15 as National Football Teams Day, in tribute to the 2-1 win over England in the 2026 World Cup semi-final, the same match after which several players displayed a banner asserting a sovereignty claim over the Falklands that prompted a FIFA disciplinary case.

• Tuesday, December 9th 2025 - 22:45 UTC

  Argentine FA, 17 clubs raided in money laundering probe

  

  Some 35 simultaneous raids were carried out on Tuesday, targeting Argentine Football Association (AFA) and 17 club facilities as authorities searched for evidence in a money laundering probe, which involves a financier closely tied to AFA President Claudio Chiqui Tapia.

• Monday, May 6th 2024 - 08:34 UTC

  Legendary Argentine football coach César Menotti dies aged 85

  

  César Luis Menotti, the man who coached Argentina to their first World Cup title in 1978 at home and was in charge of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) management that put together the team that won the Qatar 2022 version, died Sunday in Buenos Aires, aged 85. Menotti had been hospitalized weeks ago with a severe anemia but was discharged days later.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 01:31 UTC

  Football friendly between Uruguay, Argentina still on for Tel Aviv despite shelling

  

  The football match between the national teams of Argentina and Uruguay scheduled for next Monday in Tel Aviv is still on as planned, Argentine Football Association (AFA) sources consulted by the press Tuesday.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentina cancels exhibition match on Saturday in Jerusalem

  

  The football exhibition match between Israel and Argentina slated for Saturday in Jerusalem has been canceled, Israel's embassy in Argentina confirmed early Wednesday, citing unspecified 'threats and provocations' against star player Lionel Messi.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  World Cup advice for Argentine media: “How to stand a chance with a Russian girl”

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has been criticized for including a chapter about “how to stand a chance with a Russian girl” in a manual it handed to journalists travelling to the World Cup in Russia. It recommended that journalists “look clean, smell nice and dress well” in order to impress Russian “girls”.

• Saturday, May 6th 2017 - 08:56 UTC

  FIFA's magic ways: Messi's four-game ban lifted, helping Argentina to reach Moscow

  

  Argentina's hopes of reaching next year’s World Cup were given a huge boost on Friday after FIFA overturned Lionel Messi’s four-game ban for swearing at an assistant referee, but is not good news for Uruguay and Ecuador, Argentina's next rivals and with chances of qualifying.

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 08:56 UTC

  Argentine football and government pledge support for investigation and call for transparency

  

  The Argentine Football Association (AFA) issued on Thursday a press release in support of the US led investigation into FIFA and called for transparency in football, adding it joins the efforts to investigate corruption in the sport.

• Thursday, July 31st 2014 - 07:01 UTC

  Argentine football decrees 7-day mourn for Grondona's death; Blatter expected for the funeral

  

  The head of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and second-in-command of the FIFA international football governing body passed away at the Sanatorio Mitre private medical center where he had been hospitalized for a cardiac failure earlier on Wednesday.