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Women’s Euro 2022 activates new Girlguiding parternship to drive football participations

May 19 – The leading UK charity for girls and young women, Girlguiding, has agreed a one-year partnership with UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 have teamed up to challenge gender stereotypes and help more girls and young women get into football.

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Integrity

Benfica Foundation signs up to SIGA’s sport integrity mission 

May 19 – The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) has signed a co-operation agreement with the Benfica Foundation, the non-profit organisation that leads on the Portuguese club’s social programmes.

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Finance

Matt Scott: An explosion of truth could blow everything up at Chelsea

“Quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s’y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d’explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle.” Émile Zola, J’accuse

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Qatar 2022

Human rights groups call for $440m compensation fund for Qatar’s migrant workers

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By Andrew Warshaw

May 19 – Amnesty International, Football Supporters Europe and eight other human rights and fan groups have collectively urged FIFA to put up a minimum $440 million – roughly the equivalent of World Cup prize money – as a compensation fund for hundreds of thousands of migrant workers they claim have suffered abuses in preparation for the tournament in November.

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Coronavirus

UEFA backtracks on €6bn covid-relief fund for clubs

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May 19 – European governing body UEFA is reportedly shelving plans for a multi-billion euro financial package that was originally designed to help European football recover from the global health crisis. 

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Football Asia

AFC U17 and U20 draws mark full return to elite men’s football in Asia

May 19 – The AFC will broaden the base of is return from the covid pandemic next week with the draw (May 24) for the AFC U17 Asian Cup Bahrain 2023 and AFC U20 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2023.

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Europe

Ukraine continue build up for Scotland qualifier with win in Italy

May 19 – Wearing the message United for Ukraine on their shirts, Ukraine’s national men’s team won its second straight friendly since the Russian invasion by beating Italian Serie A club Empoli 3-1.

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Europe

Eintracht beat Rangers on penalties after Europa Cup night of passion and drama

May 19 – Eintracht Frankfurt ended their 42-year European trophy drought on Wednesday by beating Rangers 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw to lift the Europa League in a nail-biting final that will be remembered for the display of passion by both sets of fans in Seville.

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Football Asia

Saudis hire Larguet to drive player development and push for place amongst world’s elite

May 19 – The Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) is reinforcing its player development pathway as it targets a ranking among the world’s elite football nations by the time World Cup 2034.

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Performance

Top stars on the move as season ends and Qatar 2022 selections near

May 19 – The 2021/22 season is ending and the transfer race for the big names across the leagues in Europe has begun. While most of these player moves will be for better financial conditions, this is a unique year and it is likely many moves will be made just for a guarantee of playing time.

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Europe

PSG and Senegal star Gueye under pressure to show support for anti-homophobia initiative

May 19 – Senegalese president Macky Sall has voiced his support for Paris-Saint Germain player Idrissa Gueye, who refused to play in PSG’s match last weekend over a shirt designed to support an anti-homophobia initiative.

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Football Marketing

Floating above the rest, Liverpool connects with Extreme in multi-year tech deal

May 19 – Premier League Liverpool has selected US cloud-driven networking business Extreme as its Official Wi-Fi Network Solutions Provider and Official Wi-Fi Analytics Provider.

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Football Asia

Salman praises AFC unity, pledges support for Infantino and says he will run again

By Paul Nicholson

May 18 – Speaking at the 32nd AFC Congress, president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said that “it is clear that the AFC, our members and our Regional Associations are well on the road to recovery”,  and confirmed the AFC’s support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino in the next FIFA presidential campaign.

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Asia

Infantino welcomes Asian support and commits to continent’s development

May 18 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino cut a quite different figure at today’s AFC Congress where he appeared (virtually) alongside the AFC president and General Secretary looking more relaxed, comfortable and confident than he has in his previous confederation congress outings over the last month.

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Concacaf

US to pool men’s and women’s World Cup bonuses as part of equal pay deal

May 18 – In a historic moment, US Soccer and its national teams agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that will for the first time guarantee equal pay between men’s and women’s teams for games and equal division of World Cup prize money. 

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