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Football Notes: CSD President Miguel Cardenal Addresses Barcelona Sanctions

Spanish Superior Sports Council (CSD) President Miguel Cardenal addressed the sanctions imposed by FIFA on Barcelona for violating transfer regulations and "the club's guilt or innocence in the case." Cardenal: "It is hardly believable that Barça did not know it was breaking the rules. I believe that the regulation was crystal clear and that it was very difficult to not know that it was being violated" (MARCA, 1/22). ... The French Football Federation has agreed to a partnership with Parisian start-up E-Cotiz. The FFF will use the E-Cotiz system to "manage its online payments and subscription services" (SOCCEREX, 1/22). ... Two of Liberia's football clubs participating in Confederation of African Football-organized games will "have to play their home matches on foreign soil due to the Ebola outbreak in the country." Liberia FA Dir of Communication Henry Flomo said, "We will not play our matches in Liberia." The organization is "studying the options to determine the most feasible venues for its local clubs" (BLOOMBERG, 1/22).

FANS CLASH WITH POLICE: Supporters and police clashed before host nation Equatorial Guinea's second game at the Africa Cup of Nations. Fans threw "stones and bottles outside the stadium in Bata, with police responding by firing smoke grenades." The violence, "involving hundreds of fans, occurred as supporters were trying to enter the ground through a single entrance before the match against Burkina Faso began" (BBC, 1/21). ... The dispute between the Kenyan Premier League and Football Kenya Federation over the number of teams in Kenya's top division and the "relationship between the two bodies looks close to resolution with reports of a task force set up to take matters forward." The parties have "finally agreed" that next season's KPL will be expanded to 18 teams, from the current 16, pending agreement from sponsors and broadcasters. In exchange for the increase in the number of teams, which the KPL had resisted, "a number of conditions need to be met including a revising of league fixtures to allow more match days and an agreement the league should kick off in mid-February" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 1/22).

ASTON VILLA FINED: EPL side Aston Villa has been fined £60,000 ($90,300) and warned about its "future conduct following their players' behaviour in the 1-0 defeat by Leicester." Players and club officials "clashed on and off the pitch in a game that saw Leicester's Matty James and Villa's Ciaran Clark sent off." It is Villa's third fine of the season for the offense (BBC, 1/22).

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