March 24 – The Spanish public prosecutor is demanding prison sentences for Barcelona’s current and previous president, Josep Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell, and a hefty fine for the club over the alleged tax evasion case involving the now-infamous Neymar transfer.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 24 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s eagerly awaited appearance at the UEFA Congress today was greeted with polite but hardly prolonged applause by the one confederation that opposes his re-election in May.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 24 – UEFA president Michel Platini used his keynote address to his confederation’s congress today to highlight the ills afflicting European football, with the “insidious” scourge of nationalism-fuelled fan violence at the top of the list.
March 24 – England FA chairman Greg Dyke has called for top-flight clubs to increase the number of home-grown players in their squads in order to boost the fortunes of the national team and the effectiveness of club academy systems..
March 24 – With five days to go before the 16-team 2015 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in El Salvador kicks off, official rosters have been announced. A month ago, CONCACAF gathered the head coaches of the national teams for a four-day technical workshop in Florida.
By Alexander Krassimirov
March 24 – The owner of Bulgaria’s Botev Plovdiv Tsvetan Vasilev (pictured) has withdrawn from the football club. The majority shareholder at the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), is transferring his assets in Botev Plovdiv to fans group Association Botev.
March 24 – Fernando Santos, the coach of the Portuguese team who was in charge of Greece at the World Cup last year in Brazil, has had his FIFA penalties halved on appeal to the Court for Aribtiration for Sport (CAS).
By Mark Baber
March 23 – A delegation tasked by FIFA with finding a solution to the Kenyan football crisis, including Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi, development officer Ashford Mamelodi, and FIFA’s head of Member Associations Primo Carvaro has arrived in Nairobi. A meeting which will include Kenya Football Federation (FKF) and Kenyan Premier League (KPL) officials is scheduled for Monday evening.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 23 – Having already rejected an invitation to take part in a televised debate with the three candidates bidding for his job, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has now declined an offer to go head-to-head with them at the UEFA Congress on Tuesday.
By Andrew Warshaw in Vienna
March 23 – Any suggestion that peace and harmony reigns at UEFA was dramatically undermined today when European football’s governing body launched an unprecedented rebuke on one of its own powerbrokers.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 23 – Leagues across Europe are angrily refusing to accept FIFA’s decision to switch the 2022 Qatar World Cup to winter, saying they will back any legal action against the unprecedented move.
March 23 – Carlos Queiroz’s uncomfortable tenure as Iran’s coach ended on a bitter note when he was briefly barred from leaving the country over allegations of a reported $300,000-plus in unpaid taxes.
By Samindra Kunti
March 23 – Dutch club AZ Alkmaar have hired Moneyball baseball guru Billy Beane (pictured) in an advisory role to try and close the gap on big-spending clubs in the Eredivisie.
By Samindra Kunti
March 20 – Jose Maria Marin, the president of the Brazilian FA, has said that “Brazilian football is going to pass through a very difficult time.”
By Mark Baber
March 20 – The General Secretary of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Musa Amadu (pictured), tendered his resignation on Wednesday after, according to unconfirmed reports in local media, a row with NFF President Amaju Pinnick over money, specifically FIFA grants and a $3.6 million loan from the Federal Government.