The organisational culture of FIFA is so deep-rooted, that a complete change of leadership is needed before we can expect any change, Lord Triesman said at the EASM 2012 conference, where Jérôme Champagne called for more equality in world football.

UCN Sport Management and Play the Game/Danish Institute for Sports Studies are ready to present the detailed programme draft for the sports management conference EASM 2012. It is still possible to register for the conference, which takes place in Aalborg, Denmark on 18-21 September.

Richard W. Pound, IOC member and former WADA president, will not join EASM 2012 as a keynote speaker because of complications in the travel arrangements. He is replaced by Jens Sejer Andersen, international director of Play the Game.

Prominent keynote speakers from the international world of sport and a long line of special Play the Game symposia will give spectators a taste of Play the Game as an integral part of EASM 2012 in Aalborg, Denmark, on 18-21 September.

The former president of the German Football Association, Theo Zwanziger, and head of FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee, Mark Pieth, are among the keynote speakers at the EASM conference in Aalborg, Denmark, taking place on 18-21 September.

In a series of parallel sessions, Play the Game will take a direct approach to sensitive political topics in sport.