By Andrew Warshaw, Chief Correspondent
January 22 – Despite voting for Qatar to stage the 2022 World Cup in the Summer, UEFA President Michel Platini continues to beat the drum for the tournament to be switched to the winter months.
January 21 – Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) announced today that it is organising India’s first professional Beach Soccer Championship in Goa next month, February 7-10.
By Mark Baber
January 21 – The Africa Cup of Nations reigning champions Zambia opened their campaign today with the promise of a cash bonus from their country’s president if they made the final and a 4.5 times that bonus if they bring the trophy home again.
By Mark Baber
January 21 – Uruguay began a 10-day football ban on Friday after violence marred Wednesday’s mid-season recess game between Penarol and Nacional at the Centenario.
By Mark Baber
January 21 – A new survey shows the percentage of players in European leagues imported from abroad is now at a record high. In the top 31 division leagues of UEFA, 36.1% of all squad members grew up in a different national association to that of their employer club.
By Mark Baber
January 21 – UAE’s 2-1 win over Iraq in extra-time of the final of the Gulf Cup on Saturday has triggering a staggering Dh137 million ($37.3million) of money and gifts for the players and technical staff from the Emirates’ rulers as extra reward for their achievement.
By Mark Baber
January 21 – Ajax fans displayed banners, including an ‘Against Modern Football” banner with a cartoon of a sheikh handing over a bag of money with a dollar sign on it, on a light blue background with a red line through it, during a Champions League match in October against Manchester City.
By Andrew Warshaw, Chief Correspondent
January 21 – The idea of a creating a new Soviet-style league consisting of clubs from Russia and its neighbouring states has been dismissed out of hand by FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
By Andrew Warshaw, Chief Correspondent
January 21 – The FIFA intermediary who helped broker last week’s breakthrough re-unification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriot football officials believes there is enough goodwill on both sides to bring about an historic deal.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 21 – Tributes have been pouring in for Paris St Germain performance director Nick Broad who was killed in a car accident at the age of 38 last week.
I can’t tell you exactly why Pep Guardiola, the hottest property in football management, decided this week to hitch his wagon to Germany’s Bundesliga.
But I don’t think it would have happened had it not been for a choice made by an obscure New Zealand football administrator in Zurich on 7 July 2000.
By Mark Baber
January 18 – The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations kicks off tomorrow with hosts South Africa playing Cape Verde at the National Stadium in Johannesburg and the South African organisers are ready to go.
By Mark Baber
January 18 – Napoli have had the two-point penalty imposed for match fixing overturned and Paolo Cannavaro and Gianluca Grava have both had their six month bans revoked on appeal.
By Mark Baber
January 18 – Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Sergei Ivanov, has stated that nobody will stop the construction of the Zenit football stadium in St Petersburg and it will be ready for the World Cup in 2018.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 18 – UEFA president Michel Platini has met with French politicians to discuss his organisation’s financial fair play rules designed to prevent clubs spending more than they earn.