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FIFA, football’s world governing body, has announced an extraordinary general meeting in Cape Town on December 2 to discuss a series of pressing matters.
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Nine rebel clubs from the second-tier football league in the United States and Canada will compete in a new North American Soccer League (NASL) from April next year, officials said yesterday.
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Brazil’s World Cup-winning manager Carlos Alberto Parreira, who has agreed to return to manage South Africa at the World Cup in 2010, has been announced as a speaker at the 2009 Soccerex convention.
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The British Horseracing Authority (BHA), the regulatory authority for horseracing in Great Britain, will introduce a 'fit and proper persons' test for owners in the sport by the middle of next year, a move that follows the Premier League to put owners under tougher scrutiny.
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Olympics and World and European Championships-winning sailors have signed up for the new Extreme Sailing Series Asia, which begins today in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
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The Havas Sports & Entertainment agency has been appointed by the UK’s Commission on the Future of Women’s Sport to review the commercial potential in women’s sport.
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The team bidding to bring the World Cup to the US in either 2018 or 2022 has signed up to take part in the Soccerex Global Convention.
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Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has said the growth of foreign ownership of English Premier League clubs has made club chairmen more impatient for results, and increased the threat of the sack for managers.
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The Polish government has said it will give full support to the bid by Poznan to host the 2014 Youth Olympics.
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The Vancouver Organising Committee (VOC) for the 2010 Winter Olympics has appointed Rusty Goepel as its chairman, filling the role left empty when Jack Poole died of cancer last month.
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Football industry conference the Soccerex Global Convention will be attended by many of the top names in world football, including major clubs and sports brands.
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London-based marketing agency The Sports Consultancy has been appointed by Spain’s Real Federacion Espanola de Golf to advise on all aspects of the country’s bid to host the Ryder Cup in 2018.
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England’s bid team for the 2018 World Cup hosting rights have confirmed they will be joining the rival bidding teams from Russia, Japan, Australia, Holland and Belgium and Qatar at the Soccerex 2009 conference in Johannesburg.
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Reigning Olympic and Commonwealth Games 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu MBE has been added to the line-up of speakers at the Women and Sport Conference taking place in London on November 27.
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The Holland-Belgium Bid team to host either the 2018 or 2022 football World Cup will present at the Soccerex 2009 Global Convention in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Six members of England's 2018 World Cup bid team have stood down in what is believed to be a unanimous decision to make the decision-making process more efficient.
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Sir Keith Mills, deputy chairman of the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games (LOCOG) and Team Origin, Britain’s team challenging for the Americas' Cup, has joined the line up of speakers for the Future Sponsorship 09 conference on November 25 and 26.
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Melbourne has been chosen as the location for the 15th franchise in the expanded Super Rugby competition from 2011.