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Discrimination: Does football really think it is doing enough?

March 25 – Today is the International Day for the Rembrance of the Víctims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Tuesday 21 March was the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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Europe

Overmars in quick return with Antwerp role after Dutch disgrace

March 22 – Belgian club Antwerp have named Marc Overmars as their new technical director, just weeks after the Dutchman exited Ajax Amsterdam under a cloud.

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Law

Russian World Cup suspension holds after CAS dismisses RFU appeal for stay

March 18 – Russia’s participation in the World Cup in Qatar is almost certainly over after a move to temporarily freeze their FIFA ban was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

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Integrity

‘GRID’ Forum – Football is not doing enough , ‘silence is compliance’, says Lewis

By Paul Nicholson

March 18 – Brian Lewis, president of the Trinidad & Tobago National Olympic Committee and CANOC, issued a challenge to sport and to football in particular to do more to combat discrimination in all its forms.

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Europe

Fan-less Chelsea head for Middlesbrough for FA Cup clash as ‘integrity’ storm rages

March 18 – The FA Cup, the world’s oldest domestic knockout tournament, resumes at the quarterfinal stage this weekend with much of the focus on crisis club Chelsea’s visit to second-tier Middlesbrough.

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Europe

VAR referral results in win for Mediapro and €2.1m loss for RFEF

March 17 – The bad blood between the Spanish football federation (RFEF) and Mediapro, one of the world’s biggest sports media organisations that is headquartered in Spain, has continued with the latest victory going to the agency with a €2.1 million compensation win.

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Europe

Spartak Moscow remain out of Europa League as Russia lose appeal added time

March 16 – The ban on Russian teams playing in UEFA competition has been upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) but a separate and more significant ruling on Russia’s World Cup status is expected later this week.

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FIFA

Fifa-gate felon Del Nero loses appeal in Swiss court to overturn 20-year ban

March 15 – Disgraced former Brazilian powerbroker Marco Polo del Nero has lost his final appeal, this time at Switzerland’s highest court, in his attempt to try and overturn a 20-year FIFA ban for taking bribes worth millions of dollars.

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FIFA

Al-Khelaifi lawyers claim slander and ask how record $450m World Cup TV deal needs a bribe

By Andrew Warshaw

March 10 – Lawyers for Nasser Al-Khelaifi (pictured), the Qatari head of broadcaster beIN Sport and boss of Paris St Germain, have demanded a full acquittal of their client over bribery allegations relating to the sale of media rights for the 2026 and 2030 World Cup.

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FIFA

From Sardinian villa to Swiss prison cell: prosecutor demands long stretches for Al-Khelaifi and Valcke

March 9 – Switzerland’s public prosecutor has called for hefty prison sentences for Paris Saint-Germain and beIN Sport boss Nasser Al-Khelaifi and FIFA’s former number two Jerome Valcke (pictured) over alleged bribery relating to a World Cup TV rights deal.

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Law

Russia rolls out legal big guns and formally appeals to CAS to have its teams reinstated

March 9 – The Russian Football Union has formally lodged an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the FIFA and UEFA decisions to suspend Russian national teams and club sides from their competitions.

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Law

Al-Khelaifi and Valcke back in court to face Swiss prosecutors’ appeal in World Cup case

March 8 – More than a year after launching an appeal to try and win their case against former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke and football broadcasting boss Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Swiss prosecutors finally saw the trial get under way Monday,  based around bribery charges relating to World Cup media rights.

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FIFA

Russians demand fast-track ban appeal at CAS and ‘compensation for damage’

March 4 – The Russian Football Union has confirmed it is going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to appeal against its ban from international competitions imposed by FIFA and UEFA as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine.

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Integrity

SIS report details rise in match-fixing and sports betting turnover passing €1.45 trillion

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March 3 – Bet monitoring agency Sportradar Integrity Services (SIS) is reporting a record number of suspicious matches were detected in 2021. A year in which global sports betting turnover topped €1.45 trillion for the first time, according to SIS estimates.

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Integrity

Sportradar renews CBF deal and expands bet monitoring to state competitions

February 25  – The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has extended and expanded their agreement with Sportradar Integrity Services for as new three year term.

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