Jose Maria Gimenez sparred Luis Suarez’s blushes as Uruguay struck late to claim a 1-0 win over Egypt in their Group A opener.

After a long wait, the 2018 FIFA World Cup is here and it is already building momentum and interest as the opening group matches are honoured.

Mohamed Salah will start Egypt's 2018 World Cup clash with Uruguay on the bench on Friday.

Members of Saudi Arabia’s national football team will face a disciplinary penalty for their crushing defeat by Russia in the 2018 FIFA World Cup opener, the Al-Youm Assabaa newspaper quoted the Saudi Football Federation chief Adel Ezzat as saying.

The World Cup got under way Thursday in a short and sweet opening ceremony, with English pop star Robbie Williams dominating the centre of the park with a medley of his hits.

Mohamed Salah has been declared fit for Egypt’s opening World Cup game, less than three weeks after being injured in the Champions League final.

Russia produced a dominant display to lead Saudi Arabia in the opening game of the Fifa 2018 World Cup.

The fixtures for the 2018-19 English Premier League (EPL) season have been released and the pick of the opening weekend fixtures sees current champions Manchester City travel to Arsenal for Unai Emery's first competitive match as Gunners manager.

Ghana's Under-20 female football side, the Black Princesses, have been sent home from camp as a fall out from the current crisis that has hit Ghana football.

The Princesses, who have been in camp since last May, preparing for their 2018 Women’s World Cup (WWC) in France in August, were asked to go home last Tuesday, after government had secured a court injunction to stop all football activities for 10 days, as part of its efforts to dissolve the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

As part of their preparations, the Princesses were set to leave for Singapore for a four-nation tournament over the weekend before continuing to China for another four-nation tournament at the end of the month.

With the current situation, it is unclear if these trips will come on.

Head Coach Yusif Basigi who confirmed this to the Daily Graphic, said he was not sure what would happen so they would wait for further directives.

The government has set-up a five-member Interim Management Committee to oversee the administration of football and other related matters in Ghana.

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has requested all banks and non-bank financial institutions in Ghana to provide it with the banking details of the Ghana Football Association and its former President Kwesi Nyantakyi.

The undercover Ghanaian journalist who filmed soccer officials appearing to take bribes said on Monday that African football will continue to be held back on the world stage unless corruption is tackled more vigorously.

The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico after their joint bid beat Morocco's proposal to host it.

Julen Lopetegui has been removed as Spain manager a day after it emerged that he had agreed to take over at Real Madrid after the World Cup.

Fulham are in talks to sign striker Jordan Ayew from Swansea, Sky Sports News understands.