Kenya’s World Cup ban was put on hold after Friday’s deadline to pay former coach Adel Amrouche was extended by FIFA to 30 April 2020. Kenya’s federation (FKF) was ordered to pay Amrouche just over a million dollars in a wrongful dismissal case by the Court of Arbitration for Sport last October. FIFA gave a deadline of 24th April 2020 for the payment to be made or risk Kenya’s men’s national team being thrown out of the 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign.

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The Eredivisie – the top tier of football in the Netherlands – has been abandoned for the season with no title winner and no teams relegated. The move comes after the national government banned major events until 1 September because of coronavirus. Dutch football’s governing body the KNVB said “it has become impossible to play out the 2019-20 season”.

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