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DILI (29 June 2011) – The third round draw for the 2012 Olympic Games qualifiers will be held on 7 July 2011 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. Twelve teams have qualified for the third round where they will be divided into three groups of four teams each with the three group winners qualifying…
DILI (19 June 2011) – The AFC Medical Committee’s first meeting for the 2011-2015 term was held this week under the chairmanship of Malaysia’s Dato’ Dr Gurucharan Singh. The committee decided that all new registered players for the AFC U-16 Championship be subject to MRI scanning at an AFC accredited MRI Centre, under the…
DILI (15 June 2011) – Clubs in Europe’s top five leagues generate Euro8.4 billion (USD12.2 billion) a season, but that revenue is being outstripped as salaries rise at a faster pace. A survey of football finances found that while the total revenue for clubs in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France rose by 5%, their…
DILI (9 June 2011) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has named opera legend Placido Domingo, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Dutch football icon Johan Cruyff to a ‘council of wisdom’ to help solve FIFA’s woes. The 75-year-old global football supremo, elected unopposed to a fourth and final term as FIFA president last…
In his first interview since his re-election as FIFA president, Sepp Blatter talks to CNN’s Alex Thomas about restoring the credibility of the world’s football governing body and the possibility of re-examining Qatar’s winning 2022 World Cup bid. ALEX THOMAS: Why are you the right man to lead world football for the next four years?…
DILI (2 June 2011) – FIFA President Joseph Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term of office until 2015 by the 61st FIFA Congress. A clear majority of 186 member associations voted in favour of the incumbent president, who will remain at the head of world football’s governing body for the next four years. In…