Новости за 01.04.2021

By Andrew Warshaw

April 1 – With a view to having as many fans as possible at this summer’s delayed European Championship finals, UEFA has scrapped its own ceiling on stadium capacity for fixtures that come under its jurisdiction.

By ending the 30% spectator limit in stadiums imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic, UEFA are potentially allowing the 13 pan-European venues to choose their own restrictions.

For the moment,

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April 1 – We all love a bit of football and there are some amazing movies out there to keep us engrossed. Full of emotion and passion, they can take us away from it all.

By Andrew Warshaw

April 1 – The Confederation of African Football has rescheduled the controversially postponed Sierra Leone-Benin AFCON qualifier until the next international window June, the latest illustration of the haphazard nature of the organisation’s decision making.

The match was scheduled to take place on Tuesday in Freetown but Benin refused to play when disputing that five of its squad had tested positive for Covid-19 just before kick-off.  

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April 1 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino addressed the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group on the final day of its video conferencing summit outlining FIFA’s battle troops in the area and offering the co-operation of the organisation.

April 1 – FIFA has announced the nine host cities for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, with Sydney and Stadium Australia staging the final. Auckland in New Zealand will host the tournament’s curtain raiser.

By Paul Nicholson

April 1 – With fans locked out and club revenues locked down, social media has become increasingly important to the commercial infrastructure of clubs, according to KPMG Football Benchmark analysis.

KPMG says its research shows “a strong relationship between clubs’ commercial revenues and social media following, based on available commercial revenue data for the financial year 2019/20…This has become particularly important during Covid-19 where clubs, lacking in... Читать дальше...

By James Dostoyevsky

Football and leaks are a bit like cows and milk. One without the other appears to be quite impossible. That’s certainly true for cows. Without udders, there is no milk. And if the cow’s udder is not milked, the cow painfully dies. OK, that’s a worst-case scenario but does happen.

As for football and leaks, they are lovers: in a business that is largely owned and often operated by people who don’t have a clue about the game (but a fair clue of how to make or –

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April 1 – North Macedonia stunned Germany and Joachim Low 2-1 with an 85th minute winner from Eljif Elmas to record their most famous international victory, leaving Die Mannschaft’s World Cup qualification campaign in disarray.

April 1 – Real Madrid’s German international Toni Kroos has become the latest high-profile player to criticise  2022 World Cup host nation Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers – but stopped short of calling for a boycott of the tournament.

April 1 – South Africa have sacked their coach Molefi Ntseki after Bafana Bafana failed to qualify for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.