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Jens Weinreich and Andrew Jennings win 2011 Play the Game AwardTwo veteran investigative journalists, Jens Weinreich from Germany and Andrew Jennings from the United Kingdom, receive the 2011 Play the Game award in recognition of their tireless work documenting and bringing the enormous levels of mismanagement and corruption in the world's leading sports organisations into public view.
The Play the Game Award is awarded by the organisation Play the Game which aims to strengthen the basic ethical values of sport and encourage democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in world sport. It pays tribute to an individual or a group of persons who in their professional careers or as volunteers in sport have made an outstanding effort to strengthen the basic ethical values of sport. Weinreich and Jennings were selected as the recipients of this year’s award by a committee consisting of board members and directors from the Danish Institute for Sports Studies and Play the Game and the previous award winner, Declan Hill. The winners were announced in Cologne, Germany, at Play the Game 2011, the seventh world communication conference on sport and society. Announcing the awards, Henrik Brandt, Director of the Institute for Danish Sports Studies, said that it took only a few seconds for the committee to decide that Weinreich and Jennings were this year's obvious candidates for the Play the Award. "It is not so much the recent work by the two award winners that moves us to give them the award this year. Rather, it is due to the excellent work of the FIFA Executive Board during recent months to highlight the fact that the world’s two most outstanding investigative journalists in the field of sports have been pointing the fingers in the right direction for more than a decade; that leads us to giving them the award." "They have always been accused of exaggerating the problems in FIFA, but last year has shown that they were understating," Brandt continued. "They not only sought, but also found the documentation, and that is a great achievement which has been fundamental for the world public’s understanding of FIFA as it is today," Brandt said. Brandt also paid tribute to Weinreich and Jennings' commitment to supporting Play the Game and young journalists wanting to break into the field of investigative sports journalism. "They are a symbol of the idea of Play the Game, which is that by researching, documenting, exposing, discussing, publishing, co-operating and asking questions in a global network we can help each other and contribute to better sports policies and better sports lives for people all over the world," Brandt said. To learn more about Jens Weinreich and his work, visit his blog To learn more about Andrew Jennings and his work, visit his website Latest News
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I can't believe you guys don't get more attention at a national level from those responsible for pushing for reform. I hope getting some big names on board for the cause in Brazil will help bring more awareness of the totally corrupt organisation that is in charge of the worlds biggest sport.
Keep it up!
No se porque han dejado de lado a Lic. RAFAEL OSBERTO SAALGUERO DE GUATEMAL, que ha hecho y desecho con el futbol del area de Cenrtroamerica, alli tienen otro personaqje manchado hyasta las manos con manipulaciones del futbol al greado que el futbol de mi Pais Guatemala lo mantiene manipulado. En la anterior eliminatoria Mundialistas el en nombre de FIFA se apodero el poder, y hasta cuando Guatemala quedo eliminada u8n mes despues se hicieron las elecciones para elegir al presidente de hoy Brayan Jimenes un monigote de Salguero y la Fifa.....
Thank you Andrew for staying the course and making sure honesty/integrity prevails in this magnificent sport in such a world recognised body - FIFA. I would like to look at this sport again in the future without thinking about corrupt officials and administrators who have successfully obliterate the sport from some of us minds and have no desire of any association with the sport itself.
I love soccer but I would like to look at it and see no darkness attached to it. Good fortune Andrew and all the heros making right the worng of some greedy bunch.
Jens, I'm not familiar with your work but congratulations to you, too.
Keep the good work..
I for one say thank you Andrew? There is corruption ,coercion and incompetence in a lot of countries soccer associations, Canada is no exception.
Without people Like Andrew who will not settle for the conspiracy label and have the courage to actually investigate conspiracies that are indeed truly corrupt. The people who call others "conspiracy theorists" don't possess this courage.They are intellectually lazy and weak, Andrew clearly shows them all the difference between name calling and action.
The UK Government and our own Football Associations and every other sports body in UK should be ashamed of themselves for not having the decency and the backbone to support Andrew Jennings and for the withdrawal from FIFA many years ago. Every player from every major Football team in the UK should have been outside standing with Andrew Jennings when they shut those office doors in his face.
Andrew Jennings does ten years of work to expose this on behalf of us all and then everyone just stands by when FIFA excludes him for what difficult question he may ask.
It only takes good men to do nothing for evil to triumph.
Congratulations for the award Andrew Jennings and thank you.