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Lawyer calls on FIFA to amend transfer rules to allow free movement of players

FIFA House

By Mark Baber
August 28 – Players who cancel their contracts and move to a new club are frequently being caught up paperwork that prevents them actually playing for their new club while they wait for an International Transfer Certificate (ITC) to be issued. Delays can be long as national association refuse to deliver the ITC on the instructions of the former club, creating difficulties in registering the player with his new club and thus impeding his right to play.

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US law suit calls for a ‘knock out’ rule covering headers in youth football

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August 29 – An unusual lawsuit has been filed against FIFA from a group of parents and players in the United States concerned about how football’s world governing body handles concussion treatment.

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FIFA hands match-fixing probe back to Ghana but keeps watching brief

Kwesi Nyantakyi

By Andrew Warshaw
August 27 – FIFA appears to have cleared the head of the Ghanaian Football Association of match-fixing allegations following reports in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph and the Channel Four television station. The ruling is a huge boost for GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi (pictured) who is reported to be considering legal action as a result of the claims that emerged during the World Cup and sparked an inquiry by the investigatory chamber of FIFA’s Ethics Committee.

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Barca spending spree over as FIFA enforces transfer ban

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By Andrew Warshaw
August 20 – Barcelona have been ordered not to make any more signings after this summer until January, 2016, following a decision by FIFA’s appeal committee to re-impose their double transfer window ban for allegedly hoarding under-age players.

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Age is just a number. Refs should be able to whistle longer, says Blatter

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August 20 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes international referees are being forced retire too early under the current rules, especially when there is no age restriction for players or coaches.

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Garcia and Eckert on cast list for FIFA-hosted ethics summit next month

Michale Garcia left and Joachim Eckert

By Andrew Warshaw
August 20 – FIFA is to host the first ever conference on ethical sports leadership in conjunction with the Brussels-based World Forum for Ethics in Business.

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Blatter puts faith in technology and renews call for video challenges

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By Andrew Warshaw
August 18 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has renewed his call for managers to each be allowed two tennis-style challenges against contentious officiating decisions during matches. Blatter first made his surprise suggestion during FIFA’s annual congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in June, raising eyebrows among delegates since he had hitherto been opposed to any video aids other than goal-line technology.

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Suarez has to bite the ban bullet, but is back to football ‘activity’

Luis Suarez 5

August 15 – Luis Suarez is back in the stadium, can return to training, can carry out promotional commitments with his club and sponsors, but he can’t pull on his new Barcelona shirt and play in official competitive matches until he has served the initial ban handed out by FIFA for “committing an act of assault” in the match against Italy at the FIFA World Cup.

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Bullish Blatter challenges his critics to take the risks and run for presidency

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By Mark Baber
August 11 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter called upon his critics to take him on for FIFA’s presidency in next year’s elections. Though almost immediately followed this up by saying he was not officially announcing he would be a candidate, yet.

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Grass or turf: World Cup women raise the level of dispute with legal challenge

Canada 2015

By Andrew Warshaw
August 7 – The decision to use artificial turf for next year’s Women’s World Cup is developing into a major row with some of the world’s leading players now even suggesting the move violates their human rights.

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Renewed calls for Canada to switch 2015 World Cup venues to grass pitches

Canada 2015

August 6 – Former England women’s captain Faye White has added her voice to the campaign against playing next year’s women’s World Cup in Canada on artificial pitches.

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Blatter in Canada for Women’s U20 World Cup encourages bid for the big show

Sepp Blatter and Victor Montagliani

By Andrew Warshaw
August 5 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter is a past master at wooing his audience depending on where his schedule takes him, so it was little surprise that he caught the imagination of the Canadian media on the eve of the under-20 women’s World Cup that is due to start today.

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Touchline tantrums: Greece’s Santos given 8 match ban, Italy’s Esposito gets 6

Fernando Santos

August 5 – Greece’s World Cup coach Fernando Santos has been handed an eight match international ban by FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee. The Portuguese was sent off after extra time in the World Cup knockout game against Costa Rica.

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WADA alludes to football ‘false positives’ from Rio lab

WADA footballs

By David Owen
August 1 – Further details of alleged shortcomings at the Rio de Janeiro doping control laboratory whose accreditation was revoked last year by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), obliging FIFA to send blood and urine samples from the recent World Cup for analysis in Switzerland, have emerged in minutes of a WADA meeting in South Africa now available on the agency’s website.

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Webb demands better leadership and adherence ‘to principles of respect’

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July 30 – CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb, who leads FIFA’s anti-discrimination body, has issued a further hard-hitting rebuke in response to comments made by Italian Football Federation (FIGC) vice-President Carlo Tavecchio who described African players as “banana-eaters”.