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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said that all international teams will play to a unified calendar after the European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands next year.

Saturday's Grand Prix final will be staged in Moscow as planned despite security fears among leading competitors, the International Amateur Athletic Federation has said.

A senior Brazilian soccer official warned that the game in his country could be plunged into crisis over plans for a Bosman-style law giving players freedom of movement when their contracts end.

Fines for red and yellow cards at next year's European soccer championships will be given to young victims of land mines, the tournament's director said recently.

Jacques Rogge, a Belgian surgeon who has won a reputation for fixing the pains and strains of organising Olympic Games, on Monday joined the race for world sport's most powerful job - the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.

The European Commission (EC) and soccer's world and European ruling bodies cleared most obstacles to a deal on a new player transfer system during talks on Wednesday, a Commission source said today.

World and European soccer chiefs ended another round of talks with the European Commission on new transfer rules, saying limited progress had been made but a further meeting was needed.

Twelve major clubs from six of Europe's smaller nations have met with UEFA, to voice their concerns about the growing gap between soccer's rich and poor and discuss proposals for a new "Euro League".

The chairman of Scottish soccer champions Rangers, David Murray, has said he believes it inevitable Rangers ? and arch rivals Celtic ? will join up with the proposed Atlantic League.

South African soccer officials have landed in Australia to meet Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) members in a quest to challenge the award of the 2006 World Cup to Germany.

Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw will today announce proposals to tackle the "yob culture" of soccer hooligans before the start of World Cup qualifying matches in October.

Euro 2000 organisers say they are concerned at the scale of demand for tickets on the black market but insist it will not undermine their strict security plans.

Ajax Amsterdam has taken a majority stake in Belgian first division side Germinal Beerschot of Antwerp.

Most players in this year's Euro 2000 tournament will have to pay 18 percent of their earnings in tax, tournament officials have announced.

The Dutch city of Arnhem is to spend one million guilders ($500,000) on close circuit television cameras ahead of next year's European soccer championship.

International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) president Primo Nebiolo has insisted it was safe to stage the Grand Prix final in Moscow.