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Brazilian Congressmen have handed public prosecutors a report which recommended that criminal charges be levelled against 32 soccer directors and businessmen, including the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation and a business partner of legendary player Pele.

Eight of Europe’s top soccer clubs are meeting with European soccer’s ruling body UEFA today to discuss the reform of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

Sponsorship Research International (SRi) – the research arm of the defunct ISL – has been broken in half and swallowed by two separate companies.

The initial batch of 400,000 of the 1.2 million tickets available for next year's European soccer championships have all been sold, tournament director Alain Courtois has said.

A crippling pilots strike kept most Air France flights grounded for a second day on Tuesday but negotiations were set to resume in the afternoon, raising hopes the dispute could be settled before the start of the World Cup.

Local media reports say Toronto's SkyDome Corp. faces a "significant cash shortage."

The United Nations investigator for children's rights has reported that professional soccer had joined the list of sectors shamed by child trafficking from underdeveloped countries.

Soccer players in next year's European championships will be advised not to spend all their winnings at once as Dutch tax officials will be insisting on their share.

Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has warned that soccer could be heading for trouble over the new transfer system and said that it lacked all-round support from the game.

Bayern Munich vice-president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has criticised governing bodies FIFA and UEFA and the European Union for the way they are handling soccer matters.

Belgian Football Association President Michel D'Hooghe said on Monday he was resigning as chairman and executive committee member in June.

The European Commission has postponed a crucial meeting on the future of the soccer transfer system after the sport's governing bodies asked for more time to prepare their negotiating position.

Moldovan side Constructorul-93 Chisinau have been banned from European club competitions for one year and had player Iurii Mirza banned for two years following last month's tie against CSKA Sofia.

Irvin Khoza, chairman of South Africa's World Cup 2006 Bid Committee, is to meet a top Belgian lawyer in Brussels over a possible legal challenge to the vote which handed the tournament to Germany.

Gerhard Schmid, a vice president of the European Parliament, has proposed the most draconian measure yet to deal with the threat of English hooliganism during major soccer tournaments.

Online auction site QXL.com have taken immediate steps to ensure black-market tickets for this month?s Euro 2000 tournament are not sold on its site.