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NEWSLETTER 9 NOVEMBER 2005
(Third day of Play the Game 2005)
1) Play the Game delegates urge FIFA to speak up louder
2) Sandro Donati issues appeal to world governing bodies
3) Something rotten in the football state of Antigua
4) Meet Julio Grodona – Goodfather of FIFA
5) Jennings to FIFA: Exercise transparency through website
6) Sport development from South to North
7) Live coverage of the conference
1) Play the Game delegates urge FIFA to speak up louder
Delegates at Play the Game today agreed to send a letter to FIFA urging it to speak up louder when journalists are threatened, attacked or penalised for trying to cover football related stories.
Read the letter from Play the Game to FIFA
2) Sandro Donati issues appeal to world governing bodies
Italian anti-doping fighter and Head of Research at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Sandro Donati, returned to Play the Game with a strong appeal to global regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies to recognise the huge scale of the illegal doping trade - and to step up efforts to combat it.
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3) Something rotten in the football state of Antigua
What is the harvest like when a country with a 77-year-old membership of FIFA suddenly finds itself, as Antigua did in June 2003, shown the red card so its corrupt top-tier officials could not be got rid of electorally?
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4) Meet Julio Grondona – Godfather of FIFA
We all know about Joseph Blatter, the President of FIFA. But who knows Julio Grondona who has built up Blatter’s world-wowing financial empire? ANSA journalist Ezequiel F. Moores from Argentina does and introduced Play the Game participants to the man that calls himself the Godfather of FIFA
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5) Jennings to FIFA: Exercise transparency through website
Andrew Jennings, the investigative British reporter who has long been a thorn in the flesh of the International Football Federation, FIFA, wants to drag the federation into the 21st century and demands that it starts utilising the Internet to achieve the transparency that the organisation claims to aspire to.
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6) Sport development from South to North
The development of sport does not flow in one single direction from developed to developing nations. Based on experiences from Nordic contacts with Africa, academic Henning Eichberg from Denmark’s Centre for Sport, Health and Civil Society showed a much more complex picture of exchange between popular sports in developing and developed nations.
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7) Live coverage of the conference
Remember to check out LIVE coverage of the conference at the Conference Pulse provided by students from the Danish School of Journalism.
Coverage includes:
- podcast of selected speaches
- LIVE blogging from plenary sessions
- hourly news coverage
Go to Conference Pulse
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