By Andrew Warshaw at Soccerex in Manchester
September 9 – Outspoken Spanish league chief Javier Tebas, not content with taking on the authorities over Third Party Ownership, has now ignited the controversy over FIFA’s decision to switch the 2022 World Cup to winter.
September 9 – In a damaging blow to Asian football’s image, a World Cup qualifier between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia was abandoned just before full-time on Tuesday because of crowd trouble.
September 9 – The European Club Association, which represents the bulk of Europe’s clubs, says it would support Michel Platini if it were able to vote in next February’s FIFA presidential election.
September 9 – Wayne Rooney entered the record books of world football by becoming England’s all-time leading goalscorer on Tuesday when he hit his 50th goal for his country in the 2-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win over Switzerland at Wembley.
By Andrew Warshaw at Soccerex in Manchester
September 8 – Prince Ali bin al-Hussein is poised to announce tomorrow that he is standing for FIFA president for the second time in a matter of months. Sucker for punishment? He clearly doesn’t think so.
September 8 – All clubs in the Champions League and Europa League are to make a donation to support the thousands of migrants fleeing war-torn countries for Europe. The European Club Association announced today that 80 clubs have agreed to give €1 for every ticket sold during their first home games in the group stages of the two competitions.
By Andrew Warshaw at Soccerex in Manchester
September 8 – Spanish league boss Javier Tebas has once again defended the use of Third Party Ownership, this time blasting FIFA and UEFA for dictating to clubs how they should behave and lambasting the English Premier League for buying up all the best players.
September 8 – Football relations between north and south Korea are to be revived when South Korean FA boss Chung Mong-gyu visits Pyongyang later this month with the possibility of friendly fixtures taking a step closer.
By Andrew Warshaw at Soccerex in Manchester
September 8 – Video technology, arguably the biggest ever law change to football, must be given the green light sooner rather than later to pull the game into the modern age, according to Dutch pioneers of the idea.
By Samindra Kunti
September 9 – Indian football is a parallel world of a struggling national team and a vibrant Indian Super League, but the All Indian Football Federation considers the 2017 U17 World Cup as a stepping stone for the development of the domestic game.
By Mark Baber
September 7 – Headlines around the world have been incorrectly proclaiming ‘Palestinians ready to host 1st ever World Cup qualifier’, ahead of Tuesday’s 2018 qualifier against UAE which will be held at the Faysal Al-Husseini Stadium in Al Ram.
By Paul Nicholson
September 7 – The divisions over the ban on third-party ownership of players’ commercial rights were opened up again in a no-holds barred debated at the FITS Forum in Geneva last week.
By Paul Nicholson
September 7 – Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros (pictured), CEO of ICSS Europe and Latin America, closed the FITS Forum last week with a powerful and passionate call for an international, independent and neutral clearing house for sport related financial transactions. His call was backed by ICSS president Mohammed Hanzab who said that the world needs an independent, neutral global integrity body.
September 6 – Real Madrid, the world’s richest club, has become the latest side to join the drive to aid Europe-bound refugees after announcing it will donate €1 million to help those arriving in Spain.
By Tom Parsons
September 4 – Ronaldo or Messi, one of the big questions of our time, is being voted on in London by commuters using their cigarette butts.