At Wednesday’s final keynote session at the EASM 2012 conference Jens Sejer Andersen, international director of Play the Game pointed to seven areas of interest for academic research in the future.

Documents revealing payments from International Sports Events (ISE) to Mohammed bin Hammam has been reported stolen from the offices of the AFC, James M. Dorsey reports.

Three major investigations into corruption in global soccer are putting the credibility of major soccer associations and World Cup 2022 host Qatar to the test and could challenge the Gulf state’s successful bid as well as a massive Asian soccer rights contract.