• Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game
    29.01.2015 /
    Read the speeches held by Bonita Mersiades and Harold Mayne-Nicholls at last week’s summit calling for reform in FIFA. The Brussels summit also sparked yet another campaign: the official non-sponsorship of FIFA.
  • Photo: Dan Noctor/Flickr
    28.01.2015 /
    Real Madrid, Atletico de Madrid, Valencia CF and Rayo Vallecano are under investigation for signing ‘illegal’ minors.
  • Photo: Richard Masoner/Flickr
    27.01.2015 /
    The International Network of Humanistic Doping Research hosts its yearly conference this August. The focus of the conference will be the anti-doping work with a special focus on the unintended consequences this work entails.
  • Photo: European Union
    23.01.2015 /
    At a summit held in the European Parliament, a coalition of FIFA critics and presidential aspirants argued that an independently overseen ’FIFA Reform Committee’ must be established.
  • Photo: photopop/Visit Aarhus
    19.01.2015 /
    Nordic Venue Forum will gather professionals in the venue industry for a two-day conference, taking place 14-15 April 2015 in Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Photo: newfifanow.org
    16.01.2015 /
    FIFA critics gather at a summit to discuss how to achieve change in the international football body. The summit is organised by ‘New FIFA Now’; a campaign initiated by UK MP Damian Collins.
  • Photo: Ed Coyle/Flickr
    14.01.2015 /
    Children down to the age of 10 will be required to have an international transfer certificate in the future. The International Federation of Professional Footballers, FIFPro, doubts that this will close the loopholes for the trade of minors in international top football.
  • Photo: FIFPro World Footballers Association/Flickr
    06.01.2015 /
    FIFA vice president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein’s announcement that he will challenge the world soccer body’s four-time president Sepp Blatter in elections later this year has definitively turned the poll into a battle for the group’s future. A vote for the prince is at least a vote against the FIFA president embattled as a result of multiple corruption scandals and more likely a vote for change.

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