By Ben Nicholson
November 13 – LAFC, the newly formed Californian MLS club that has picked up their berth from the now defunct Chivas USA, look poised to have sorted out a new-build stadium to play in. While in Texas, the city of San Antonio has put down a stadium marker in its bid to land a new MLS franchise.
By Paul Nicholson in Manama, Bahrain
November 12 – Bahrain’s most famous footballer and the national team’s top scorer Ala’a Hubail, has told Insideworldfootball that he hopes “Shaikh Salman becomes president because he would be the first arab president and that makes me very proud.” He also said that the allegations swirling around Shaikh Salman’s candidacy are not true, “it is not in his character”.
By David Owen
November 12 – Manchester United continue to show the financial effects of their attempts to restore their dominance of the English club game, in spite of scoring a near 40% jump in first quarter revenues. A hike in costs, plus a financial hit on transfer dealings as manager Louis van Gaal and colleagues attempt to create a team worthy of the United brand, meant that pre-tax profits in the three months to September 30 were down 36% on a year earlier at £5.2 million.
November 12 – Former FIFA vice-president Eugenio Figueredo, one of the ‘Zurich Seven’ arrested in May as part of the US-led probe into $150 million worth of financial corruption stretching back 24 years, has instigated a tug of war between the United States and his native Uruguay for his extradition.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 12 – The race for the FIFA presidency will be contested by five candidates, pending Michel Platini’s appeal against suspension, after Liberia’s Musa Bility was unexpectedly ruled out following integrity checks into the potential contenders to take over from Sepp Blatter on February 26.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 12 – Germany’s ‘s joint interim FA chief Reinhard Rauball has warned of a long road ahead to pull the country out of its off-the-field political crisis.
By Mark Baber
November 12 – CK Hutchison Holdings Limited’s Three-branded Irish telecoms business announced on Wednesday the renewal of its partnership with the Republic of Ireland football team and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), pledging support to Irish football until 2020 in a deal worth €8.9 million.
By David Owen
November 12 – FIFA has announced that the mythical Maracanã Stadium, spiritual home of the Brazilian football team, is to host both the men’s and the women’s Olympic football finals.
By Ben Nicholson
November 12 – In response to a pending lawsuit regarding concussion protection amongst youth ‘soccer’ players, the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) has changed its practices so as to improve concussion awareness and education, and ban heading altogether for U10s.
By David Owen
November 12 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has moved immediately to suspend the accreditation of the anti-doping laboratory in the Russian capital, the Moscow Antidoping Center. The head of the laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, has also resigned.
By Ben Nicholson
November 12 – David Beckham’s plan to build a stadium in Miami is again faltering following comments made by Tim Lieweke (pictured), who is leading negotiations for Beckham’s group. This time three private parties are holding out on selling their property and holding up Beckham’s MLS franchise dream.
By David Owen
November 12 – West Ham United, the east London club gearing up to move to the Olympic stadium next year, has suffered a fall in annual profits owing to rising costs.
November 11- Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who a few days ago was reported to be suffering from stress, has now been hospitalised for treatment after what has been described as a “small breakdown”.
By Mark Baber
November 11- In the wake of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) bombshell revelations about doping in Russian athletics, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has suggested that many opponents, both past and present, might have used performance- enhancing drugs, adding to worries about whether football might be drawn into the ongoing scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 11- Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino insists he will not give way to Michel Platini if he wins the Fifa presidential election on February 26.