Новости за 11.03.2021

By Paul Nicholson

March 11 – Women should not be left out of football’s rebuilding programme and that although positive steps have been taken by men for the women’s game, more can be done. These were two clear messages coming out of the just concluded Female Leadership webinars organised by sports integrity body SIGA.

Speaking at a sidebar during the three days of sessions that saw more than 70 speakers and 2,000 delegates,

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By Paul Nicholson

March 11 – Saudi Arabia has stepped up to take on the bulk of Champions League group stage hosting next month in the AFC’s West zone. The UAE will also host a group while in the East zone Thailand will host three groups. India will also host a group.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) made the announcement earlier today “after an extensive feedback exercise with its Participating Member Associations,

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March 11 – Despite an apparent agreement between UEFA and Europe’s leading clubs over plans to reform the Champions League post-2024 in order to stave off the threat of a breakaway super league, opposition to the plan continues to be voiced by some key stakeholders.

By Andrew Warshaw

March 11 – In the end, all the campaigning and lobbying proved fruitless – for three of the candidates at least.

South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe breaks new ground tomorrow when he is crowned the first ever English mother tongue leader of African football, a radical change from the past amid hopes that he can sweep away the glaring mismanagement and dysfunctional self-interest that for years has plagued the Confederation of African Football hierarchy.

March 11 – In Brazil, the ball keeps rolling, even as the country experiences it most dramatic moment of the coronavirus pandemic yet, breaking national daily death toll records day after day. 

March 11 – The family of late Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala is taking legal action against English Championship club Cardiff City more than two years after his death in a plane crash. 

March 11 – Paris Saint-Germain doesn’t do things the easy way. Last year’s Champions League finalists had to dig deep in a 1-1 draw to progress to the last eight of the competition and prevent another FC Barcelona miracle.

March 11 – Kosovo have backtracked and agreed to play Spain in their World Cup qualifier after saying the Spanish had expressed regret for referring to the Balkan country as a “territory”.

By David Owen

March 11 – A 67-year-old German lawyer called Thomas Bach was re-elected as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president on the first day of a videoconferenced IOC session on Wednesday (March 10).

Bach, who won a fencing gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, was unopposed. He was backed by 93 of the 94 valid votes cast by his fellow IOC members, with one unidentified voter opposed.

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