‘Spain, Portugal eye WC bid with Morocco’

Prosecutors probe alleged racial discrimination at PSG

MADRID, Nov 19, (Agencies): Spain and Portugal are considering a joint intercontinental bid with Morocco to host the 2030 World Cup, a Spanish government source told Reuters on Monday.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was on a visit to the Moroccan capital of Rabat and spoke to Prime Minister Saadedin Al Othmani and King Mohamed VI about the possibility of bidding for world soccer’s global showpiece tournament.

Spain hosted the 1982 World Cup and launched a failed bid along with Portugal to stage the 2018 tournament which was awarded to Russia.

Portugal has never hosted the World Cup but held the 2004 European Championship in 2004 at which they lost in the final to Greece.

Morocco was unsuccessful in its campaign to stage the 2026 World Cup, which was awarded to a joint bid from the United States, Mexico and Canada.

French prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into alleged racial discrimination at soccer club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) after a

Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani plays the ball during a training session at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on Nov 19, on the eve of the friendly football match against France.

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news website reported the club’s scouts had listed the ethnic origins of young recruits, a judicial source said.

Mediapart, which based its allegations on the so-called “Football Leaks’ documents, said PSG had until the spring of 2018 asked recruiters to record the origin of players in four categories: “Francais” (French), “Maghrebin” (North African), “Antillais” (West Indian), and “Afrique noire” (Black African).

Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman on board a train, British Transport Police said on Monday.

The ex-Tottenham and Lazio player was charged with “one count of sexual assault by touching”, said a spokeswoman for the force.

The 51-year-old, who has struggled with alcoholism since he retired from top-flight football, was arrested at Durham station in northeast England on August 20. codes to its current strength.

Football is now the nation’s most popular team sport in terms of participants, although its share of broadcast revenues and gate receipts remains trifling next to the dominant codes of Australian Rules and rugby league.

Steven Lowy signed off on Monday with speech in which he called on the newly elected board to continue to build the game, while also launching a broadside at those who have called for a change in the type of person who runs the game Down Under.

“I hear the argument that is fashionable at the moment that there must be more “football people” and fewer “suits”