tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144257062009-10-18T08:51:42.195+07:00By Football Dynamics: Winning partnerships for football businesses.Geoffreynoreply@blogger.comBlogger2489125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14425706.post-15613771007752605952007-08-30T10:12:00.000+07:002007-09-12T14:38:14.416+07:00

Latin American lawyers will speak alongside sports lawyers from South Africa and Europe on third-party ownership of players at ‘The Global Game: Ownership of Football Clubs & Players’, a World Sports Law Report event, sponsored by sports law specialist Clintons, on 25 September at the Selfridge Hotel in London. Such ownership contracts are commonplace in Latin America, but have caused widespread

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LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest electronics maker, is promoting an aggressive premier marketing campaign from mobile phones to LCD TVs in Europe in a way to intensify its brand image. "Sports marketing seems another must-win card for LG to raise its brand recognition in European markets," observed Kim Yoo-chul in The Korean Times. In July, the company signed a three-year shirt

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The English Football Association will introduce itsnew agents regulations on Saturday despite protests from the Association of Football Agents that player's agents still hadn't been properly consulted. "It's extraordinary that the FA intend to hold a press briefing to explain their new regulations this week when they have made such little effort to consult the agents concerned. It's a disgrace

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Sanjeevan Balasingham has been appointed as General Secretary of FIFPro Asia. His background in football is extensive and was the Director of Legal Services of the Asian Football Confederation and has been a leading executive with the AFC for 7 years. He will work closely with Brendan Schwab, Chairman of FIFPro Asia and will be based in the Professional Footballers Association office in Melbourne

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Steve Gibson, Chairman of English Premier League club Middlesborough has explained the relationship of his club's match-day gate income with payments to players. Very little, it seems. Referring to the salaray request by the club's former striker Mark Viduka, Gibson claimed the player's agent had said Viduka would go to the highest bidder. "Mark Viduka is 32 on his next birthday and he was asking

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Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung has assured David Sullivan, his fellow major shareholder of English Premier League club Birmingham City that he is confident of soon buying full control of the club. Sullivan had publicly expressed concern that the club's stability would suffer if a deal wasn't concluded by the end of September. "I don't know enough about the Chinese psychology. But, for the

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The United States military reportedly issued a statement regreting it had handed out soccer balls emblazoned with the name of Allah as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan. At least one of the balls - which were dropped by helicopter to children in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan - carried a small picture of the Saudi Arabian flag. The flag features in Arabic script the

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Football Federation Australia’s Anti-Doping Tribunal has handed down a decision in the matter of Stan Lazaridis. The Tribunal held that an Anti-Doping violation had occurred and ordered the player ineligible to play for 12 months, backdated to the date of his positive test on 27 November 2006. The decision was handed down on 6 August 2007 but in accordance with the FFA Anti-Doping By-law could

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Afshin Ghotbi recently left his position as South Korean assistant coach to take over Iranian club Persepolis. Born in Iran, the 43 year-old left his homeland for America in 1977 and went to the 1998 World Cup with the United States and the 2002 and 2006 World Cups with South Korea. He spoke to John Duerden of goal.com (extracts):Practical problems of the 2007 Asian Cup:First of all, you have

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India's north-east states like Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland have provided many footballers to the senior and junor national teams but do not host a major league football club. However Lajong SS&CC from Meghalaya has come close to achieving promotion to the Division One of the NFL and is looking to develop to generate more interest among fans as well as corporates. The club is

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India's national football team will train in Dubai for ten days before its first round qualifier match for the 2010 World Cup against Lebanon scheduled for 8 October. The Indian team's camp in Dubai will start on 25 September, a day after Mahindra United play Lebanon's Al Nejmeh in the quarterfinal of the Asian Football Confederation's AFC Cup. Six Mahindra players will join the national squad

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The sports media landscape in Asia changed dramatically on the weekend of 11-12 August as the English Premier League dropped from the schedules of many of its last remaining major free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasters. Promoters, who'd paid the EPL most of the record £625 million it received from foreign rights for 2007-2010, began to recoup their investment. In some markets, even

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Myanmar will host the 2007 ASEAN Women's Championship for the first time during 6-15 September. The South East Asian participants are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam in Group A and Myanmar, Laos, Singapore and Thailand in Group B.

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The Adelaide United Football Club has announced Exact Mining Services as the club’s new ‘front of shorts’ sponsor for the 2007/08 Australian A-League season for an undisclosed amount. “What Adelaide United has achieved in such a short period of time is a great success story for South Australia’s up and coming sporting profile. It is an achievement which we are all proud of at Exact Mining

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Sports Sciences Club of Lahore won Pakistan's 3rd National Women’s Football Championship after beating Afghanistan 1-0 in the final at the Jinnah Stadium. Ace striker Ayesha Akram netted the winner in the 26th minute of the first half to help her team lift the coveted trophy. "The winners gave no chance whatsoever to all out attacks of Afghanistan in the second session and kept their slender lead

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UK/Australian technology company Vividas has reached a three year agreement with Fox Soccer Channel to video stream English Premier League matches in the USA every week using Vividas VivStream PPV technology. It is intended that the service will be add live streaming of other top-tier football events including FA Cup fixtures and UEFA Cup matches as well as select European Championship Qualifiers

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At the start of the new Australian A-League season, football writer Michael Cockerill noted that, in its third edition, the competition "has better players and better coaches than ever before." While Nick Carle, David Carney, Dario Vidosic and Adrian Leijer "have demonstrated in the off-season, ambitious, mainly younger Australian players will continue to seek their fame and fortune abroad," six

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David Sullivan, co-owner of English Premier League club Birmingham City wants Hong Kong-based businessman Carson Yeung to make a full offer for the club by the end of September. "I have to admit that I am concerned that this is all dragging on too long. It is not in the best interests of the club. Mr Yeung is a very nice man, he is very enthusiastic and he clearly likes his football. He has got

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English football legend Sir Bobby Charlton's visit to Cambodia last month did "not enough to contribute to the development of football in Cambodia," national coach, Scott O'Donell said. While agreeing that actvities such as Charlton conducting a coaching clinic for around 80 footballers all under the age of 13 at the Olympic Stadium in Pnom Penh were positive, O'Donell said the country needed to

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North Korea and the reigning Asian Cup champion Iraq have confirmed their participation along side Thailand in the annual four-nation King's Cup tournament played in Bangkok. According to Football Association of Thailand President, Worawi Makudi, a European team will probably be given priority for the final place in the event which will be palyed between 23-29 December. "Only one place remains

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Phil Lines, Head of International Broadcasting and Media Operations at the English Premier League recently spoke to the Economic Times of India on EPL policy (extracts):On leveraging interest in the Premier League beyond TV broadcasting: "Its honestly up to our partners. We usually sell our rights, and the partner takes over. We don’t do any marketing and promotion, as the broadcaster who buys

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AMI has secured the exclusive new media mobile and internet clip rights to the English Premier League. The deal covers a range of territories within central and eastern Europe and central Asia broadcast territories. It covers three seasons commencing with the current season which kicked off earlier this month. Rob Pickles, managing director UK-based rights holders AMI, said: “We are delighted to

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Representatives of the Indonesia League Committee (BLI) of the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) met Asian Football Confederation General Secretary Dato Paul Mony Samuel today at the Hilton Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The meeting discussed changes to the Indonesia professional league structure, particularly the new Super League that will commence in 2008. “We see that Indonesia did so

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Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung has revealed he wants to complete a takeover of English Premier League club Birmingham City by the end of 2007. "I think we may be able to take over by the end of the year, maybe earlier than that," he told told Sky Sports News. Yeung also said that a love for Birmingham is what is motivating him in his bid. "I came here before. I love the city," Yeung added. "I

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Australia's 8-team A-League is seeking a substantial club membership hike in its coming third season and an overall rise in crowds following double-digit growth in attendances at the Pre-Season Cup. "Membership will become a vitally important ingredient in growing the game in the next number of years," Football Federation Australia CEO Ben Buckley said at the season launch. "I can report that

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