Pakistan’s Olympic gold medallist and star javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem has decided to skip this month’s Lausanne Diamond League as he shifts his focus towards an overseas training stint in South Africa. Nadeem, who is currently undergoing intensive preparations at Punjab Stadium in Lahore, was initially included in the entry list for the Lausanne Diamond League scheduled for August 21. However, according to sources, the 28-year-old has opted against competing in Switzerland

Cristiano Ronaldo and his longtime partner Georgina Rodríguez have officially tied the knot, bringing their decade-long relationship to a new chapter with a private civil ceremony in Portugal. The Portuguese football superstar and Rodríguez were married on August 11 in the coastal town of Cascais, near Lisbon, with their five children reportedly present for the intimate occasion. Ronaldo confirmed the marriage on social media by sharing a photograph of the couple’s hands disp

SYDNEY: Smaller football federations, particularly those in Oceania, have remained largely silent amid FIFA’s growing internal dispute because they fear putting crucial development funding at risk, former Papua New Guinea international Alex Davani has said. Davani, a former deputy general secretary of Football Australia, believes FIFA’s development funding system needs reform and says the controversy surrounding Gianni Infantino’s abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal co