Argentine first division side Racing President
VICTOR BLANCO will remain in that role for the next three years. Blanco captured 50.9% of the 9,849 votes cast by the club's members. Blanco's top competition, attorney
MARIANO CÚNEO LIBARONA, received 34.9% of the votes (
CLARIN, 12/14). ... Leicester City has sacked Dir of Football
TERRY ROBINSON. Academy Dir
JON RUDKIN will assume Robinson's former responsibilities. Robinson was appointed in July '13 with a remit to "provide strategic input to the club's football operations at all levels, driving the consistent implementation of the club's football philosophy." He now "appears to have paid the price for an ineffective summer transfer window, following promotion from the Championship" (
BBC, 12/15). ... Former France rugby player
OLIVIER AZAM has been named the new director of sport at Top 14 club Oyonnax, "taking over at the end of the current
season." He has signed a three-year contract and will "be in
charge of the entire sporting policy of the club, both at amateur and
professional level." Azam will replace Castres-bound
CHRISTOPHE URIOS "in the top job at Oyonnax and his support staff will be announced in coming weeks" (
ESPN, 12/15).
ARMY TRAINING: Australia's most senior female army officer, Major General SIMONE WILKIE, will take an Australian Football League Commission position "created by the decision of veteran commissioners" BILL KELTY and CHRIS LANGFORD to stand down. Wilkie, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, "is a member of the Australian Defence Force board of management and the ADF Sports Council, as well as the patron of the ADF Women’s Australian Rules Association." She "will be joined on the Commission" by two-time premiership player JASON BALL. In further administrative development, AFL Match Review Panel Chair MARK FRASER "has stood down" (AAP, 12/16). ... Williams F1 Team appointed STEVE NIELSEN "as its new sporting manager." Nielsen, "who will be responsible for Williams' overall management and operation of sporting matters, joins from Toro Rosso where he had been sporting director since 2013." He "has also spent time as team manager at Tyrrell and Arrows and as sporting director at Benetton/Renault and Caterham during his 27 years in Formula One" (REUTERS, 12/14). ... U.K. van supplier and current Football Conference sponsor
Vanarama announced the appointment of former FA Chair DAVID BERNSTEIN as group chairman. Bernstein was previously Man City chairman and is currently chairman of The British Red Cross and Ted Baker Plc. (Vanarama).
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