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UEFA ECA agree financial fair play concessions

03 March 2010

UEFA agrees to phase in introduction of financial fair play system aimed at creating greater economic stability within football.[more]


ECA Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, ECA Executive Board Member David Gill and ECA General Secretary Michele Centenaro speaking at ECA press conference at Soccerex 2010. Photo (c) Soccerex


Clubs get UEFA board spot

03 March 2010

New UEFA events company will extend board membership to clubs.[more]


David Taylor, UEFA Events CEO, speaking at Soccerex 2010. Photo (c) Soccerex


Blatter faces challenge at the 2011 FIFA president elections

22 February 2010

The Asian Football Confederation promises to challenge Sepp Blatter’s 12 year long reign as FIFA president at the elections next year.[more]




Comment: Conflict of Interest - or worse!?

01 February 2010

Christer Ahl, former head of the International Handball Federation's (IHF) Playing Rules and referees Commission looks into last month's revelation of IHF President Moustafa's personal contract with IHF TV rights owner Sportfive.[more]


Christer Ahl speaking at Play the Game 2009


IHF Head of Sports Department resigns due to loyalty issues with IHF Director Moustafa

14 January 2010

In a letter to all council members of the International Handball Federation, it was last week announced that the Head of Sports Department of the International Handball Federation (IHF), German Ekke Hoffmann has resigned from his...[more]




More countries under FIFA monitoring for government interference

08 December 2009

El Salvador, Samoa and Togo are being monitored by FIFA for political interference and could soon join Iraq and Kuwait in the international wilderness.[more]


<div xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whappen/3715110181/"><a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whappen/">El Salvador football fan. Photo by Flickr user Wha'ppen/</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a></div>


AFC condemns Iraqi NOC interference

02 December 2009

The Asian Football Confederation has condemned the decision by the Iraq Olympic Committee to dissolve the country’s football association.[more]




Taiwan's president vows to clean up match-fixing in baseball

01 December 2009

In Taiwan, President Ma Ying-jeou has put his whole administration behind an effort to clean up match-fixing in the country's professional baseball league. Taiwan News reports that Vice President Eric Liluan Chu will head up a...[more]


Taiwanese Baseball stadium. Photo (c) flickr user Nekonomist, used under a Creative Commons 2.0 licence.


Iraqi member of parliament calls FIFA ban ridiculous

24 November 2009

The leader of the secular Ahrar party, Ayad Jamal Aldin, has hit out at FIFA for suspending the Iraqi Football Association (IFA).[more]




Inconsistency in FIFA's suspensions over government interference

21 November 2009

Reigning Asian champions Iraq have become the eleventh country in the last five years to be plunged into international isolation by FIFA for political interference but the world body is not seemingly intent on suspending Guinea...[more]




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