The FIFA Interactive World Cup is FIFA’s only official football gaming tournament. World football’s governing body, along with its presenting partners Electronic Arts (EA) and PlayStation, is bringing the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2008 to a city or screen near you. The FIFA Interactive World Cup 2008 season has been extended to mirror the European club football season so now you have more time to hone your skills and challenge the world’s best gamers. The qualification format remains the same with an online qualification mode on the PS network, which is already well underway and partially completed, alongside 21 live qualifier events all over the globe. These offline and online qualifying events began in October 2007 and will run until the end of March 2008, culminating in the FIFA Interactive World Cup Grand Final at the Sony Center in Berlin on 24 May 2008.

4 March Johannesburg
Meeting of the Board of the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™
7-9 March Gleneagles (Scotland)
122nd Annual General Meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB)
10 March Zurich
Technical and Development Committee meeting
11 March Zurich
Organising Committee meetings for the FIFA U-20 World Cup and the FIFA U-17 World Cup
12 March Zurich
Meetings of the Organising Committee for the FIFA Club World Cup, the Internal Audit Committee and the Organising Committee for the FIFA Confederations Cup
13 March Zurich
Finance Committee and Players’ Status Committee meetings
14 March Zurich
Executive Committee meeting
17 March Zurich
Sports Medical Committee meeting
22 April Johannesburg
Meeting of the Board of the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™
30 April – 1 May Zurich
70th Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup
25 May Sydney
Internal Audit Committee meeting
26 May Sydney
Finance Committee meeting
27 May Sydney
Executive Committee meeting
28 May Sydney
Confederations’ meetings
28 May Sydney
CONCACAF Congress
29-30 May Sydney
58tr FIFA Congress
8 July Johannesburg
Meeting of the Board of the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™
17-27 July Marseilles
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Marseilles 2008
6-23 August Beijing
Men’s and Women’s Olympic Football Tournaments
16 September Johannesburg
Meeting of the Board of the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the cover star of this month’s FIFA magazine, is currently being showered with honours in his native Sweden After being voted Swedish footballer of the year for 2007, the Inter Milan striker was also the first footballer to be crowned sportsman of the year in his home country. With 31 per cent of the vote, Ibrahimovic relegated hurdler Susanna Kallur to second place. The former Malmo, Ajax and Juventus man helped Inter to the SerieA title last year and is also scoring regularly this season. He has also scored 18 goals in 49 appearances for the Swedish national team.