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UEFA wants to temporarily remove players who injure opponents

Pierluigi Collina, UEFA (Union of European Football Associations)'s referees chief, suggested on 14/05/2014 that players who injure their opponents should be temporarily removed."We're going to propose this new rule to IFAB (International Football Association Board), whereby the player who causes…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Legal, Social Responsibility
• Article # 19261
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©  ECA

ECA: Second meeting of Women's Football Committee in Lisbon (POR) on 22/05/2014

The second meeting of the ECA (European Club Association) Women's Football Committee will be held in Lisbon (POR) on 22/05/2014, the final day of the Women's Champions League (Wolfsburg-Tyresö FF). The Women's Football Committee was established at the 10th general assembly of the ECA in Doha (QAT…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal, Social Responsibility
• Article # 19265
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©  D.R.

Qatar 2022: Joseph Blatter acknowledges "mistake" of planning World Cup in "50°C" summer

"Yes, of course. But listen, a mistake ... You know, we make many mistakes in life," said Joseph Blatter, President of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), on 15/05/2014 in an interview with Swiss television RTS. He was responding to the question, "Is it not a mistake first of…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal, Marketing - Communication, Social Responsibility
• Article # 19240
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Home-grown players: European Commission asks Spanish basketball to change its rules

The European Commission called on FEB (Spanish Basketball Federation) and ACB (Spanish Association of Basketball clubs) to change their current rules on locally trained players, which lead to "indirect discrimination against players from other member states of the European Union," the commission…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Legal, Social Responsibility
• Article # 19125
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MLS: Findlay Sports and The Cordish Companies want to create franchise in Las Vegas

The American company Findlay Sports and Entertainment and The Cordish Companies Real Estate Group are negotiating with MLS (Major League Soccer, the North American football league) to create a franchise in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), the league said on 15/05/2014. "We recently met with Justin Findlay…
Domain(s): Clubs
• Category(ies): Authorities, Marketing - Communication
• Article # 19232
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©  D.R.

Spain: RTVE acquires rights to qualifiers for Roja to Euro 2016 and 2018 World Cup

RTVE acquired the TV, radio, internet and mobile rights to the qualifying matches of the Spanish team to Euro 2016 (France, 10/06 to 10/07/2016) and the 2018 World Cup (Russia), the Spanish public broadcasting group announced on 14/05/2014. The rights guarantee RTVE 10 matches at each qualifying…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Finance, …
• Article # 19186
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Brazil 2014 La Gazzetta Dello Sport launches a website and a hashtag to support the Azzurri

The Italian sport daily La Gazzetta dello Sport launched a Twitter campaign on 12/05/2014 entitled "Let's conquer Brazil" with a hashtag meaning "let's be azzuri" ("Conquistiamo il Brasile, # facciamoliazzurri") and created the website www.iotifoazzurro.it (meaning, "I'm rooting for Azzurri"). The…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Marketing - Communication
• Article # 19158
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Greece: Panathinaïkos plans to increase subscription prices to finance renovation of stadium

A 30% increase in the price of new subscriptions for 2014-15 -- to fund the renovation and expansion of the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium (16,620 seats) -- is planned by Giannis Alafouzos, president of Panathinaikos FC (Super League, Greek 1st division), he announced on 14/05/2014. 2013-14…
Domain(s): Clubs
• Category(ies): Ticketing, Finance, Stadiums
• Article # 19206
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©  D.R.

3D simulation software stadium evacuation set up at American university

SportEvac, a 3D simulation software for stadium evacuation, has been set up at the University of Southern Mississippi (United States), the NCS4 (U.S. National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security) announced on 14/05/2014. This software was developed by Incontrol, an American IT company…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Digital, Stadiums, Legal, …
• Article # 19207
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