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Student video on Play the Game 2011 now out in an English language version

24 July 2012

Play the Game 2011 was captured on video, and the 30 minute film is now also available in English.[more]


The Play the Game 2011 film from the German Sports University Cologne features an interview with, among others, FIFA communications director Walter De Gregorio.


New magazine on Play the Game 2011

29 March 2012

Missed the Play the Game 2011 conference in Cologne or want to relive the some of the many highlights? The newly published 36-page fully illustrated magazine on the Play the Game 2011 conference covers a large selection of the...[more]




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]




Surveying media coverage of Play the Game: Another story about football

19 October 2011

Bringing change to the heart of sport was the slogan for the 2011 Play the Game conference. Judging from media coverage of the conference, there is little doubt that the heart of sport lies in football, and its main affliction is...[more]


Photo: Play the Game/Tine Harden


Play the Game delegates call on the IOC to gather all stakeholders to draft a code for good governance in sport

06 October 2011

The 2011 Play the Game conference concluded with a call to the International Olympic Committee to organise a world conference before the end of 2012 in order to draft a code and international standards for good governance in...[more]


Christer Ahl contributed to making the Cologne Consensus. Photo: Tine Harden


Jens Weinreich and Andrew Jennings win 2011 Play the Game Award

06 October 2011

Two 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...[more]


Investigative journalists Jens Weinreich and Andrew Jennings received the Play the Game award. Photo: Tine Harden


Movies about football: The road to riches, disappointment or reconciliation

06 October 2011

The contrasts between football’s multi millionaires and its less powerful stakeholders were highlighted on the third day of the Play the Game conference. Through research, documentaries and investigations, a number of filmmakers...[more]


Argentine footballer Carlos Tevez. Photo: Flickr.com/Alfonso Jiménez


FIFA and Jennings clash over claims that FIFA is like the mafia

06 October 2011

In a sensational session at Play the Game, FIFA’s new communications director, Walter De Gregorio, confronted Andrew Jennings during a session on corruption in FIFA and refuted the veteran investigative journalist’s claim that he...[more]


Andrew Jennings and FIFA's new Director of Communications, Walter De Gregorio, clash outside the main auditorium at Play the Game. Photo: Tine Harden


Sports writer: FIFA bidding process was a charade

06 October 2011

The “most extraordinary story I ever worked on” is how sports writer James Corbett described the bidding procedure for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. Corbett followed the process closely through his involvement with World...[more]


James Corbett (left, with Roger Pielke, Jr.) told Play the Game about the "most extraordinary story" he has ever worked on as a sports writer. Photo: Tine Harden


FIFA's Director of Communications promises to speak at the next Play the Game conference

06 October 2011

After years of trying to engage FIFA in open debate about issues of governance in world football, organisers of the Play the Game conference were surprised to learn that FIFA's new Director of Communications and Public Affairs...[more]


Walter De Gregorio has told Play the Game that he intends to take part in the 2013 conference. Photo: Tine Harden


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