This move hasn't come as a surprise after 23-player rosters were expanded for recent continental championships. The move of adding three players to the typical World Cup roster follows UEFA doing the same for the European Championship last year.
The FIFA Bureau, comprising the presidents of FIFA and soccer's six confederations, recently approved a similar rule when the 23-player rosters were expanded for the continental championships.
The team will likely meet Sports Minister Anurag Thakur before leaving the country on June 23.
The 37-year-old is just two goals behind Lionel Messi's tally of 86 goals. He is the third-highest goal scorer in international football among active players, a list that is led by Cristiano Ronaldo.
The 24 group stage games will conclude on October 18 and the matches will be shared among all three host states – Odisha, Goa and Maharashtra.
Hosts India will kickstart their campaign on October 11 as Odisha, Goa and Maharashtra will be hosting the prestigious FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
During the play-ins, India played 32 games across four match weeks and got 12 wins, 11 losses and nine draws.
The Aussies now have a six-day break before the playoff against Peru, placed fifth in South American qualifiers. The Aussies executed a similar kind of game plan to ensure that they qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Néstor Lorenzo, the 56-year-old Argentinian is all set to replace Reinaldo Rueda said Colombia's football federation. Rueda was fired from the job earlier this April after Colombia failed to qualify for the upcoming world cup.
FIFA has received 3 million ticket requests for the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar and high demand to attend some of its biggest group-stage games, even as issues linger about the tiny Persian Gulf nation's ability to accommodate fans.
Letting Russia try to qualify for the World Cup risked doing “irreparable and chaotic” harm to the competition, FIFA successfully argued at sport's highest court.
Italy had 32 shots on goal, compared to just four for its opponent. But it was Trajkovski's effort from outside the area as defenders closed in around him that made the difference.
Ecuador and Uruguay reached 25 points on the table and can no longer be overtaken by other teams.
The fifth-place team in South America will play an intercontinental playoff against the fifth-place team from Asia in June for another spot in Qatar, so the competition is still intense.
With the treble against Spurs, Ronaldo has lifted himself on top of FIFA's all-time scorers' list.
Russian teams were expelled from competition on February 28 'until further notice' following the country's invasion of Ukraine.
A postponement of the match, due to be played at Hampden Park in Glasgow on 24th March, had been requested by Ukraine in light of the Russian invasion.
FIFPRO and the organization representing the world's soccer leagues — the World Leagues Forum — jointly wrote to FIFA seeking permission for Russia-based players to terminate their contracts.
Ukraine is set to play Scotland in Glasgow on March 24, with the winner then taking on either Wales or Austria five days later for a place at this year's World Cup in Qatar.
The 2019 Kremlin ceremony where the state honor was bestowed on Infantino only served to cement a personal relationship with Putin.
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