Play the Game is organising a course on international sport in Switzerland in December. The target group is Nordic journalists but a few places will be available for journalists from other countries in Europe.

Gibraltar must wait longer than anticipated for membership of UEFA. UEFA’s Executive Committee has decided to postpone the decision to grant Gibraltar membership after opposition from Spain. The Spanish football association claims that Gibraltar’s football stadium is built on disputed land under Spanish sovereignty.

The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA and Interpol, the world’s largest police organisation, have announced that they will start working closely together to combat the growing problems with trafficking of doping substances.

Cambodia has elected a new president of its national Olympic Committee to replace Prince Norodom Ranariddh who is accused of squandering the committee’s money on five star hotels. Earlier this year the country’s Prime Minister Hun Sen decided that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports should supervise sport in the country, not the Olympic Committee.

The International Federation of Beach Volley and Volleyball Associations (FIABVB) has announced the dates for the 1st FIABVB friendship and solidarity congress where the founding of a new volleyball world federation to rival the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) will take place. It will take place in Denmark on 25-26 November 2006.

FIFA vice president Jack Warner is at the centre of a new scandal, as players for Trinidad and Tobago’s national football team, the Soca Warriors, have announced their decision to retire from international football. Team members accuse the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) of reneging on the contractual obligations it made to the team before the World Cup.

The private gambling industry is applying increasing pressure on the Nordic gambling monopolies that generate billions of kroner for sport each year. Battle lines are also drawn at European and international level between private online gambling companies and the national gambling monopolies. However, there are great differences between how the different countries handle the challenge.

Nicolás Leoz, a FIFA executive member and president of the South American football confederation Conmebol, has been accused by Swiss magistrates of receiving bribes in the amount of almost 212.000 Swiss francs. The claim comes in a Swiss investigating magistrate’s report relating to the collapse of the sports marketing company ISL/ISMM.