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Politician says Levski is owned by premier and the BFU is ‘fixed’ and ‘corrupt’

Tatyana Doncheva

By Alexander Krassimirov
September 10 – The leader of the Bulgarian political party ‘Movement 21’ Tatyana Doncheva announced on TV that Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski, member of the parliamentary group of the liberal ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), are the real owners of top league club Levski through front men. According to her, Levski is most obvious example of political dependence in Bulgarian football.

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VR opens up new revenue streams for football’s rights holders

Virtual headsets

By Paul Nicholson in Berlin
September 10 – 95% of Manchester United fans never make it to Old Trafford. virtual reality (VR) technology is now at a tipping point that will mean that they will never need to.

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China’s CEFC buys majority stake in troubled Slavia Prague

Slavia Prague

By Jaroslaw Adamowski
September 10 – As part of the Chinese group’s expansion into the Czech market, CEFC has signed a deal to acquire a 59.97% stake in Slavia Prague. The group says it is also working towards becoming a sponsor of the Czech national team.

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It’s official, Prince Ali joins FIFA race ‘to finish what we started’

Prince Ali at Soccerex

By Andrew Warshaw
September 9 – Little over three months after being defeated by Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, the young reformer who won’t give in, put himself back in the firing line today as he officially announced he will stand again next February saying he wanted to finish where he left off.

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Garber rebuts Carrard and says US is an ’emerging’ football nation

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By Andrew Warshaw at Soccerex in Manchester
September 9 – Major League Soccer chief Don Garber has issued a hard-hitting response to the provocative suggestion by FIFA’s new reform guru that football is not a serious sport in the United States, accusing the former International Olympic Committee director-general of treating his country with disdain.

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ECA urges FIFpro not to take transfer rules challenge to CAS

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September 9 – The head of the European Club Association (ECA) has urged football’s world players’ union FIFPro not to carry out its threat to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in its bid to rip up the existing transfer system.

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Adidas extends deal with Spanish until 2026

RFEF and adidas

By Mark Baber
September 9 – Adidas is extending its partnership with the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) until 2026. Under the terms of the partnership, which had originally been scheduled to run until 2018, the German group will continue to supply kits and apparel to all RFEF teams, including the Spanish national football team.

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Twitter value: Ronaldo tops tweet chart at €230k a shot

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By Tom Parsons
September 9 – According to a report by media agency Opendorse, Cristiano Ronaldo could potentially charge €230,366 for one advertising Tweet to his nearly 38 million followers on Twitter.

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Liverpool land Banc de Binary in new online trading deal

Liverpool and Banc de Binary

By Ben Nicholson
September 9 – Liverpool FC has announced a partnership with Banc De Binary, a binary options company that operates an online trading website through which customers may buy and sell binary options, for the 2015/2016 season.

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Mourinho needs to find some ‘sexist’ healing, says medical barrister

Mourinho and Carneiro

By Andrew Warshaw
September 9 – If Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho thought his treatment of the club’s female head doctor on the opening day of the Premier League season would die down, he is mistaken.

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Tebas happy about Qatar 2022 but nervous of winter date

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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.

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Malaysian riot forces abandonment of Saudi Arabian World Cup qualifier

Malaysian riot

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.

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European clubs put weight behind Platini’s push for FIFA presidency

Rummenigge and Platini

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.

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Rooney breaks Sir Bobby’s England goalscoring record

Rooney record

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.

Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose: We need transparency not just at FIFA, but also in club football

If there is one subject everyone agrees on is that FIFA needs to be more accountable and transparent. Yet even as there is unanimity on this subject in one area of football there is so little transparency and information is so tightly controlled that it makes those who run the politburo in China look liberal and media friendly. This is in the area of how clubs communicate to the world.