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Call for Abstracts EASM 2012

31 January 2012

EASM cordially invites you and your colleagues/peers to submit a scientific or practical abstract/paper or poster to be considered for presentation at the EASM 2012 conference in Aalborg, Denmark. Young researchers are invited to...[more]




Play the Game will be partner in EASM 2012

31 January 2012

University College of Northern Denmark will host the annual conference of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) in Aalborg, Denmark, on 18-21 September 2012 in partnership with Play the Game/Danish Institute for...[more]




Blatter accused of making secret agreement on TV rights

30 January 2012

A leaked hand-written letter aledgedly penned by FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke to former vice-president Jack Warner suggests that Valcke and president Blatter secretly bypassed FIFA’s Executive Committee when awarding...[more]




Pieth will hunt down the “gangsters” in FIFA

27 January 2012

During the past two years, FIFA has experienced a wealth of scandals which lead football’s governing body to create an independent Governance Committee charged with reforming FIFA. But the Chairman of the Committee, Mark Pieth,...[more]




FIFA must help Trinidad and Tobago’s Football Federation clean up corruption

25 January 2012

Former T&T national goal keeper and TTFF technical director Lincoln Philips calls for a reform of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) and appeals to FIFA to take the lead by installing a Normalisation Committee...[more]




Another year of violence in Argentinean football

24 January 2012

Despite a slight decrease in the number of fatalities, 2011 became a new statement of the violence in Argentinean football and nothing indicates a turn for the better. Javier Szlifman reports on the hooliganism haunting the big...[more]




The only lasting legacy for Euro 2012 hosts may be a huge debt

20 January 2012

The cost of hosting mega-events is high. New predictions say that Ukraine, co-host of the Euro 2012, who has long struggled to meet UEFA’s deadlines, could end up staring at a loss of $8bn for the honour of hosting the...[more]




Warner and the media - Ex-FIFA Vice-President is still ‘Lord of the sound byte’

20 January 2012

Trinidad and Tobago High Court has given the former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner a deadline of February 10 to provide an account of all income, donations, gifts, grants or benefits and all expenditure arising from the Germany...[more]




SportAccord launches global programme to stop match-fixing in sport

18 January 2012

SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for 105 Olympic and non-Olympic sports federations, has created a programme to battle match-fixing in sport. The international sports movement has identified the fight against the...[more]




Champagne intervenes in debate on FIFA reform

16 January 2012

FIFA’s former director of international relations, Jérôme Champagne, has joined the debate on reform of the world body by sending his personal diagnosis on the problems and potential solutions to all 208 FIFA members.[more]




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