FIFA,international soccer's governing body, allows a player to represent only one nation at the senior level.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The head of football's governing body, Sepp Blatter, accompanied the South African president to the impoverished township of Alexandra, in northeastern Johannesburg, for the launch of the Football for Hope Tournament.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

"That helps the sport grow. If we just stayed all our separate little ways, the sport would never get momentum, so it's basically a national movement where we have one governing body kind of governing all the rules so we all play by the same rules."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03