For its first game next season, La Liga side Villarreal "will close the portion of the stands at its home ground where a fan threw a banana onto the field" near Barcelona's Dani Alves on April 27. Villarreal President Fernando Roig announced the measure to Spanish Superior Sports Council President Miguel Cardenal. The club will install "a large sign saying, 'No to racism' in that section of its stands" (EFE, 5/23). ... The Kochi team for the Indian Super League football tournament, co-owned by retired cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, has been named Kerala Blasters. The name was announced by State Chief Minister Oommen Chandy "after his brief meeting with Tendulkar" on Tuesday. Tendulkar "also accepted Chandy's request to be Goodwill Ambassador of the National Games" (PTI, 5/27). ... UEFA "has been ordered to pay six-figure damages" to a Croatian referee who claimed that he "had been wrongfully accused of rigging the result of the 2009 Croatian Cup final." The court, in the northern Croatian town of Daruvar, ordered UEFA to pay $134,900 to referee Bruno Maric. Maric "denied accusations by a UEFA investigator that the game had been rigged and that he had been involved, and he pressed his own charges against the European football federation in 2012" (REUTERS, 5/27).