By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – The fallout from the unprecedented FIFA bribery scandal has extended as far as one of the organisation’s major sponsors, with Dubai’s Emirates Airlines undecided whether to renew its multi-million dollar deal after 2014.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – Alexey Sorokin could be forgiven for taking the rest of the year off, putting his feet up and patting himself on the back for a job well done.
By David Gold
November 1 – Populous’ senior principal John Barrow has praised English stadiums as the best in the world, citing Arsenal as the best example of how to approach moving into a new ground.
By David Gold
November 1 – Lionel Messi is in line to win his third successive FIFA Ballon d’Or award after being named on a 23 man shortlist for the prize, along with seven of his Barcelona team mates.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 31 – In an era of belt-tightening and battening down the hatches, the Premier League general secretary, Nic Coward, makes no apologies for promoting the brand of the most popular product in world football.
By David Gold
October 29 – Marcos Motta, a partner at law firm RBMF Advogados, which counts Neymar (pictured) and the Brazil Football Confederation among its clients, has spoken to insideworldfootball about the rapid growth of Brazilian football in recent years.
By David Gold
October 28 – Barcelona President Sandro Rosell will be one of the star attractions at the International Football Arena’s (IFA) thirteenth conference next month in Zurich, where he will be discussing European football as part of a distinguished panel.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – Sepp Blatter’s radical new proposals for weeding out corruption have been given a cautious welcome by the Transparency International, the pressure group that has been advising FIFA.
By David Gold
October 22 – FC Zurich President Ancillo Canepa (pictured) claims he can see a day when a woman will coach a men’s football team, though he does not think it will be in the next few years.
By Mihir Bose
October 21 – The theme of this year’s International Football Arena (IFA) conference, Football: from craze to madness, may suggest we face a sporting Armageddon. But Marcel Schmid, the man whose brainchild the conference is, refuses to take a pessimistic view of the state of the game.
By David Gold
October 20 – FIFA’s head of women’s competitions, Tatjana Haenni, believes that women’s football can replicate the success of women’s tennis and compete on a par with the men’s game in the future.
By David Gold
October 19 – Lara Dickenmann (pictured), Olympique Lyonnais’ midfielder who scored the crucial second goal in their Champions League final victory earlier this year, has told insideworldfootball of her hope to be involved in creating Switzerland’s first professional women’s football club after her playing career is over.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
October 18 – Whenever Umberto Gandini holds court on the business of football, his audience invariably sits up and takes note.
By Tom Degun in Guadalajara
October 17 – The majority of the players who competed at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Mexico earlier this year have returned positive doping tests due to contaminated meat with 19 of the 24 teams having squad members with traces of clenbuterol in their bodies.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – Football conferences dealing with the most pressing issues in the world game have sprung up virtually all over the globe in past decade.