By Jaroslaw Adamowski
March 24 – Bundesliga chief Christian Seifert has unveiled plans for the German top tier to introduce Monday matchdays. Seifert made his comments during a recent trip to Poland’s capital Warsaw, where he met with the management of the Bundesliga’s Polish counterpart, the Ekstraklasa.
By Alexander Krassimirov
March 25 – Bulgaria’s most famous football club, CSKA Sofia, is set for a new ownership! Current majority shareholder Alexander Tomov has announced that negotiations for the transfer of a majority shareholding to the construction entrepreneur Julian Indzhov (pictured left with Tomov) are in full flow.
By Paul Nicholson
March 25 – Scottish giants Rangers have begun the process of extricating themselves financially from the influence of investor Mike Ashley with the agreement of a £1.5 million loan agreement with Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor – known locally as the Three Bears.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 24 – As the sole candidate, Michel Platini was re-elected UEFA president by acclamation today and took the opportunity to defend his organisation against claims they have become enemies of FIFA and are too powerful.
March 24 – The mandate of the Normalisation Committee at the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) has been extended for a further six months. The decision of FIFA’s Executive made on March 20 gives more time for the establishment of an electoral process and new elections, with the trial of the FECAFOOT’s long-term president Iya Mohammed (pictured), on grounds of alleged financial impropriety, still continuing.
By Mark Baber
March 24 – The FIFA mission to Nairobi, aimed at achieving a resolution of the crisis bedevilling Kenyan football, has by all accounts ended in triumph, with agreement between the parties on the way forward out of the crisis.
March 24 – The Spanish public prosecutor is demanding prison sentences for Barcelona’s current and previous president, Josep Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell, and a hefty fine for the club over the alleged tax evasion case involving the now-infamous Neymar transfer.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 24 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s eagerly awaited appearance at the UEFA Congress today was greeted with polite but hardly prolonged applause by the one confederation that opposes his re-election in May.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 24 – UEFA president Michel Platini used his keynote address to his confederation’s congress today to highlight the ills afflicting European football, with the “insidious” scourge of nationalism-fuelled fan violence at the top of the list.
March 24 – England FA chairman Greg Dyke has called for top-flight clubs to increase the number of home-grown players in their squads in order to boost the fortunes of the national team and the effectiveness of club academy systems..
March 24 – With five days to go before the 16-team 2015 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in El Salvador kicks off, official rosters have been announced. A month ago, CONCACAF gathered the head coaches of the national teams for a four-day technical workshop in Florida.
By Alexander Krassimirov
March 24 – The owner of Bulgaria’s Botev Plovdiv Tsvetan Vasilev (pictured) has withdrawn from the football club. The majority shareholder at the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), is transferring his assets in Botev Plovdiv to fans group Association Botev.
March 24 – Fernando Santos, the coach of the Portuguese team who was in charge of Greece at the World Cup last year in Brazil, has had his FIFA penalties halved on appeal to the Court for Aribtiration for Sport (CAS).
By Mark Baber
March 23 – A delegation tasked by FIFA with finding a solution to the Kenyan football crisis, including Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi, development officer Ashford Mamelodi, and FIFA’s head of Member Associations Primo Carvaro has arrived in Nairobi. A meeting which will include Kenya Football Federation (FKF) and Kenyan Premier League (KPL) officials is scheduled for Monday evening.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 23 – Having already rejected an invitation to take part in a televised debate with the three candidates bidding for his job, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has now declined an offer to go head-to-head with them at the UEFA Congress on Tuesday.