Day: April 30, 2025

30 April, 2025- At the Global Citizen NOW summit in New York City, FIFA and Global Citizen, the world's leading international advocacy organisation on a mission to end extreme poverty, announced the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an initiative that aims to raise USD $100 million to provide access to quality education and football for children around the world. The new fund, announced by FIFA President, Gianni Infantino and Global Citizen CEO, Hugh Evans, will provide targeted support to organisations across the globe dedicated to improving education for children. Consumer donations will be enabled and supported by Shift4 as Chief Commercial…

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has congratulated David Boon for a fine career as match referee, during which he officiated in close to 400 international matches after joining the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees in 2011. The 64-year-old Tasmanian's last match was the second Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in Chattogram and he now joins Cricket Australia as a Board Director. ICC Chair, Mr. Jay Shah, said: "On behalf of the International Cricket Council, I extend my gratitude to David Boon for his outstanding service as an ICC match referee. Over the years, he has combined his unparalleled experience…

FIFA has launched World Football Week from 21-25 May 2025, an inaugural week of festivities to celebrate football's unique ability to connect people across places, cultures and languages. Under the theme 'Together, We Are Stronger,' individuals, teams, and organisations around the world are invited to play, watch, and celebrate football, highlighting the strength which exists in unity. On 23 May 2024, FIFA President Gianni Infantino proposed to extend the existing UN World Football Day (25 May) celebrations for five days annually, in the form of World Football Week. Beginning on 21 May, the day on which FIFA was founded in…