By David Gold
November 6 – Jochen Rotthaus, the managing director of Bundesliga side TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, has told insideworldfootball the club is proud to be the first team in one of Europe’s top-flight leagues to have a solar-power provider as its shirt sponsor.
By David Gold
November 5 – FC Lorient President Löic Féry has called for a salary cap based on each league’s income from television revenues to prevent football from financial disaster, saying UEFA’s financial fair play initiative was a positive step, but did not go far enough.
By David Gold
November 4 – Philipp Hasenbein (pictured), the managing director of SPORTFIVE Germany, claims that the building of new stadia has been a key driving force behind the growth of the Bundesliga and German football in recent years.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 4 – Umberto Gandini, the AC Milan operations director and one of the most prominent voices in European football, has entered the debate over the rights and wrongs of clubs wanting to sell their television rights individually.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 3 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter will make one of his first appearances since announcing his anti-corruption drive when he takes centre stage at the International Football Arena (IFA) on Monday (November 7).
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – The fallout from the unprecedented FIFA bribery scandal has extended as far as one of the organisation’s major sponsors, with Dubai’s Emirates Airlines undecided whether to renew its multi-million dollar deal after 2014.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – Alexey Sorokin could be forgiven for taking the rest of the year off, putting his feet up and patting himself on the back for a job well done.
By David Gold
November 1 – Populous’ senior principal John Barrow has praised English stadiums as the best in the world, citing Arsenal as the best example of how to approach moving into a new ground.
By David Gold
November 1 – Lionel Messi is in line to win his third successive FIFA Ballon d’Or award after being named on a 23 man shortlist for the prize, along with seven of his Barcelona team mates.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 31 – In an era of belt-tightening and battening down the hatches, the Premier League general secretary, Nic Coward, makes no apologies for promoting the brand of the most popular product in world football.
By David Gold
October 29 – Marcos Motta, a partner at law firm RBMF Advogados, which counts Neymar (pictured) and the Brazil Football Confederation among its clients, has spoken to insideworldfootball about the rapid growth of Brazilian football in recent years.
By David Gold
October 28 – Barcelona President Sandro Rosell will be one of the star attractions at the International Football Arena’s (IFA) thirteenth conference next month in Zurich, where he will be discussing European football as part of a distinguished panel.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – Sepp Blatter’s radical new proposals for weeding out corruption have been given a cautious welcome by the Transparency International, the pressure group that has been advising FIFA.
By David Gold
October 22 – FC Zurich President Ancillo Canepa (pictured) claims he can see a day when a woman will coach a men’s football team, though he does not think it will be in the next few years.
By Mihir Bose
October 21 – The theme of this year’s International Football Arena (IFA) conference, Football: from craze to madness, may suggest we face a sporting Armageddon. But Marcel Schmid, the man whose brainchild the conference is, refuses to take a pessimistic view of the state of the game.