• Photo: Ed Coyle/Flickr
    18.03.2016 /
    2015 resulted in a $122 million dollar loss, shows FIFA’s Financial and Governance Report that also for the first time reveals the salary of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Meanwhile, Infantino presents roadmap to restore trust in FIFA.
  • Photo: AU UN 1st photo/Tobin Jones/Flickr
    By Christer Ahl
    15.03.2016 /
    Instead of protecting their ‘oligopoly’, international sport federations (IFs) should focus more on grassroots development, says Christer Ahl in this comment piece in which he analyses the core tasks of the IFs and finds that there is room for improvement in the way these tasks are performed.
  • Photo: Bobby Hidy/Flickr
    08.03.2016 /
    The EU Sport Forum will gather more than 300 stakeholders in sport for dialogue on European sport. Play the Game will be on a panel discussing good governance in sport.
  • Photo: Andreas Selliaas
    By Andreas Selliaas
    01.03.2016 /
    Gianni Infantino will enter his FIFA presidency with promises to be held and alliances to be nurtured in a complex play that includes expectations of reform, a potentially explosive Garcia report and a new King Maker, says Andreas Selliaas commenting from Zürich.
  • Photo: justinshanks/Flickr
    By Jens Sejer Andersen- International director, Play the Game
    27.02.2016 /
    FIFA avoided the disaster it would have been to let a sheikh from an Arab dictatorship lead it through democratic reforms. Gianni Infantino came out on top by speaking FIFA classic with golden promises to everyone, and he will get a hard time delivering
  • Photo: MCaviglia/Flickr
    26.02.2016 /
    Gianni Infantino is the next president of FIFA. This was decided after a second ballot at the international football organisation’s extraordinary congress.
  • Photo: justinshanks/Flickr
    26.02.2016 /
    FIFA members have voted in favour of the proposed reform package at today’s Extraordinary Congress.
  • Photo: justinshanks/Flickr
    By Jens Sejer Andersen- International director, Play the Game
    26.02.2016 /
    Chances are that this Friday 26 February will mark the old FIFA’s ultimate defiance of the pressure exerted over five years by most of football’s fans and stakeholders. There will be reform, but will there be change?

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