Weekly News Extra (18-22/11/2024)

• Renfe, Spain's national rail network, has entered into a partnership with LALIGA to broadcast LALIGA EA Sports and LALIGA Hypermotion matches on trains.
• Austrian group Red Bull is interested in buying Torino FC (Serie A Enilive), according to Italian media outlet Calcio e Finanza.
• "Noël Le Graët (ex-president of the FFF) has informed the French Court of Justice that he is withdrawing his defamation complaint against me. In the event of a trial, he would have had to appear before the Court to explain the repeated breaches of language and behaviour that led him to resign from the Fédération Française de Football. As with his resignation at the time, he is taking a wise decision for himself and for the FFF," said Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, former Minister for Sport and the Olympic Games, on X.
• FIFA and video game development studio Mythical Games have announced a collaboration to launch FIFA Rivals, an "officially licensed, football mobile video game."

These are some of the news items that did not make it into an article this week, but which are nevertheless, worthy of your attention…