At FIFA’s invitation, a working group of major stakeholders from the international football community, including confederations, players, clubs and professional football leagues, met at the Home of FIFA in Zurich to discuss the post-2014 international match calendar. The meeting was opened by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and conducted by FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke. [ Read More ]
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) under the chairmanship of The Football Association Chairman David Bernstein, convened for its Annual General Meeting (AGM), at the Pennyhill Park Hotel in Surrey, England. The IFAB received a general evaluation of eight available Goal Line Technology (GLT) systems by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology). [ Read More ]
FIFA announced that top German police and security executive Ralf Mutschke (52), senior manager at the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) and a former INTERPOL director, has been appointed as FIFA’s Director of Security as of 1 June 2012. Mutschke will be in charge of the new FIFA Security Division, responsible for all [ Read More ]
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FIFA announced the extension of its broadcast rights agreement with Brazilian broadcaster Globo for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. The agreement with Brazil’s largest media company covers cable, satellite, terrestrial, mobile and broadband internet transmission across the country. “Globo’s strength in distribution across such a vast territory [ Read More ]
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee, under the chairmanship of Marcel Mathier (Switzerland), has sanctioned five Uzbekistan national team players and the Uzbekistan FA following a match played in round three of the AFC preliminary competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. Having already qualified for round four, Uzbekistan hosted Tajikistan in a qualifying match at [ Read More ]
