NEWSLETTER 10 JUNE 2006:

PLAY THE GAME INVITES FIFA TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT

1) Play the Game publishes FIFA theme and invites FIFA to set record straight

2) Framework for FIFA’s new Ethics Committee unclear

3) Minister and Danish vice president resigns from WADA

4) Sports journalists fight HIV in Southern Africa

5) FIVB accuses ex-secretary general of embezzlement

6) Wild cup may set precedent for non-members of FIFA

7) Sportnetzwerk publishes first book on corruption in sport

8) Sports journalists attacked in Peru and Iraq

9) UEFA supports demand for reform of European football

1) Play the Game publishes FIFA theme and invites FIFA to set record straight

FIFA complains that reporter Andrew Jennings misrepresents its answers. Now Play the Game invites FIFA to answer seven questions raised by Jennings’ book and have the answers published unedited on www.playthegame.org

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Play the Game also publishes a FIFA theme under the heading “Who took the soccer bribes?”

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2) Framework for FIFA’s new Ethics Committee unclear

FIFA’s Congress has set up a new independent Ethics Committee but who will be on it and what it is supposed to do is still not determined.

3) Minister and Danish vice president resigns from WADA

The Danish vice president of WADA, Brian Mikkelsen, has announced he is stepping down from his top post in WADA.

4) Sports journalists fight HIV in Southern Africa

Sweden is behind a programme that trains African journalists to use sports journalism in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

5) FIVB accuses ex-secretary general of embezzlement

FIVB rejects all claims for compensation from its former secretary general, Jean-Pierre Seppey. Instead FIVB accuses him of embezzlement.

6) Wild Cup may set precedent for non-members of FIFA

FIFA and the German football federation have allowed a tournament for nations rejected by FIFA to go ahead in the week before the World Cup.

7) Sportnetzwerk publishes first book on corruption in sport

It is the first book to focus on the global phenomenon of corruption in sport.

8) Sports journalists attacked in Peru and Iraq

Two radio journalists in Peru assaulted in commentator’s box, and sport tv-presenter in Iraq shot dead.

9) UEFA supports demand for reform of European football

UEFA president Lennart Johnsson is ready to increase the level of control of the economic interests in football.

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