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The Ball Remains the Same - Leoz, Grondona and Teixeira's 91-Year-Reign

09 February 2012

In this conference presentation from Play the Game 2011, Ezequiel Fernández Moores describes the football management in South America and how the same old men have been in power for several years. The South American...[more]




EASM invites students to join summer school in International Sport Marketing

09 February 2012

The European Association for Sports Management (EASM) has now opened its registration for the third EASM summer school – this year focusing on International Sport Marketing and the latest findings in this field of research. The...[more]




New report calls for governance reforms in cricket

07 February 2012

FIFA is not alone in having its governance practices scrutinised. The International Cricket Council (ICC), the world governing body for cricket, has received an independent review on its governance calling for fundamental reforms.[more]




Egypt football violence and its significance for the revolution

02 February 2012

In the biggest disaster in Egypt’s football history, at least 74 people were killed when rival fans from two of Egypt’s top tier clubs clashed yesterday. On top of the 74 deaths, a great number of people were injured yesterday...[more]




Resignations deepen rift among Turkish Islamists and country’s soccer crisis

02 February 2012

The Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) three top managers have resigned in a move that appears to have deepened the rift between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey’s powerful Islamic Gulen movement as well as the...[more]




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]




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