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Lee Wellings: Will football’s IPL work in India?

It’s just NOT cricket. That, in a nutshell, is the biggest obstacle the Indian Super League faces when it launches in October. It is football sold and packaged with the successful IPL formula. A burst of action over an intense couple of months. Big names, star backers (none bigger than team owner Sachin Tendulkar). Not too may teams (eight), a good spread around the country’s major cities, and a big focus on marketing, promotion, sponsorship and advertisers.

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Nigerians find an uneasy peace as Giwa steps back and NFF avoids suspension

By Mark Baber
September 10 – With Chris Giwa, who firmly believed he was the legitimate President of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), having seemingly disappeared from the scene, the governance crisis at the top of Nigerian football may be entering a period of calm, prior to new elections, as FIFA has confirmed the NFF is not suspended from international football.

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CIES stats predict resurgence of Barca, Chelsea and AS Roma fortunes

September 10 – The CIES Football Observatory has released its 2014/2015 season standings predictions for the big-5 European leagues. The data driven predictions have Bayern Munich and Paris St Germain retaining their league titles. But predicts new champions in England, Spain and Italy.

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Medics push FIFA and UEFA to wake up to new 3-minute concussion rule

World Cup concussion - Uruguay

By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
September 10 – Professional matches in world and European competitions could be held up for up to three minutes if radical plans to treat players suspected of suffering from concussion are passed by FIFA and UEFA.

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Qataris confident of clean ethics report and ready to play, winter or summer

Nasser Al-Khater

By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
September 10 – Organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar believe they will be exonerated in the 350-page report into possible corruption surrounding the ballot for the tournament which also covered the 2018 event in Russia.

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Clubs cool on switch to Winter 2022, but hot on the FFP cash windfall

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By Andrew Warshaw
September 10 – Europe’s clubs are still to be convinced that a switch to a winter World Cup in 2022 is a fait accompli. The clubs say they want “strong, decisive” reasons before accepting a decision to move the Qatar tournament from its usual summer slot.

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Webb says more change needed as FIFA reaches a crossroads

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By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
September 9 – CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb says the reforms FIFA have put in place do not go far enough and that world football’s governing body has “huge challenges” ahead in terms of building trust and confidence amongst the general public.

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Moscow builds Wi-Fi bandwidth for 2018 streaming

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September 9 – Moscow’s telecoms operators are gearing up for a streamed 2018 World Cup with task forces dispatched to work out how this can best be done, according to Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

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Red tape ties up Indian teams in danger of missing Asian Games

Incheon Asian Games

September 9 – India’s national men’s and women’s football teams, preparing for the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, are stranded in a training camp in Shanghai, with the chances of them getting to the tournament diminishing by the hour as the Indian government dilly-dallies.

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2022 date shift could still put World Cup on Winter Olympic collision course

Winter Olympic crash

By Andrew Warshaw
September 9 – FIFA have revived the possibility of the 2022 Qatar World Cup being staged in January if it is switched to winter, putting it on a direct collision course with the winter Olympics. The first meeting of the multi-stakeholder Task Force set up to decide once and for all when to stage the tournament discussed three possible time frames, including January/February, even though FIFA president Sepp Blatter has previously ruled that out.

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Ludogorets hit by stand closures after UEFA rules against fan conduct

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By Alexander Krassimirov
September 9 – Bulgarian champions Ludogorets have been handed a reduced stadium sanction by UEFA for their first home group game in the Champions League on October 1.

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Fieldoo platform scores with players, agents and clubs

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September 9 – Web-driven network Fieldoo, which connects players with agents and clubs, has now registered over 150,000 users after just a year of operation, making it the biggest specialist independent network for players and agents.

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Prince Ali calls for ‘term’ limits but says Asia must be a long term project

Prince Ali bin al Hussein

By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
September 8 – FIFA vice president Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan says he in favour of term limits for senior officials even though the idea was firmly rejected by the organisation’s Congress three months ago.

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Landmark for women coaches as Kerr’s men secure first win

Shelley Kerr

By David Owen
September 8 – A small piece of sporting history was made in Scotland on Saturday when the University of Stirling of the fifth-tier Lowland League beat rivals Edinburgh University 2-1 to hand manager Shelley Kerr her first victory.

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Nigeria: FIFA deadline passes as Giwa says appeal to CAS has been made

Chris Giwa

By Mark Baber
September 8 – As the deadline for Chris Giwa (pictured) to give up his claim to have been elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) passed this morning, all eyes are on FIFA as to whether they implement their ultimatum to suspend Nigeria from world football.