FIFA announced SARAI BAREMAN has been appointed as chief women’s football officer. The New Zealander will head up the newly created Women’s Football Division, reporting directly to FIFA Deputy Secretary General ZVONIMIR BOBAN, and will be part of the FIFA Management Board. She takes up her new role on Nov. 14. Bareman brings a background in financial industries and football administration to the role. She worked at the national association level, as the CEO of Football Federation Samoa, where she was responsible for overhauling its financial management and carrying out strategic rebuilding. She then took up a role at confederation level, initially as operations manager at the Oceania Football Confederation, before being promoted to the role of deputy secretary general (FIFA). ... The IOC has hired MICHAEL NOYELLE as its new media relations manager in its Lausanne HQ, replacing SANDRINE TONGE. Noyelle, a native of France, spent the prior six years in communications for the Int'l Canoe Federation. He will report to Media Relations Head EMMANUELLE MOREAU. The IOC is now searching for a head of strategic communications (Ben Fischer, Staff Writer). ... La Liga announced that JAVIER TEBAS will remain its president for four more years. Elections "were expected to be held later this month after Tebas resigned in September" to call for new elections and go after a second term. However, Eibar President ÁLEX ARANZÁBAL "pulled out of the running last week to allow the 54-year-old Tebas to run unopposed" (ESPN.com, 10/11). ... Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President ÁNGEL MARÍA VILLAR fired Secretary General JORGE PÉREZ, who was expected to run against Villar in the upcoming RFEF presidential election. The RFEF named ESTHER GASCÓN the replacement for Pérez (MUNDO DEPORTIVO, 10/11). ... U.K. sports broadcaster and journalist CLARE BALDING has been appointed by The Jockey Club as a racecourse committee director at the Epsom Downs Racecourse -- home of The Investec Derby Festival. Balding has presented terrestrial horseracing coverage for both Channel 4 and the BBC, and was awarded an OBE for her services to broadcasting and journalism in '13, as well as a BAFTA for her coverage of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Balding takes up her new non-exec role at Epsom Downs Racecourse with immediate effect (The Jockey Club).
COACHES/MANAGERS: Zimbabwe named former cricket int'l HEATH STREAK as "the country's new national team head coach." Zimbabwe Cricket announced the move, ending the caretaker role of former South Africa int'l MAKHAYA NTINI, "who is expected to stay on as bowling coach." Another former Proteas test cricketer, LANCE KLUSENER, is the team's batting coach (REUTERS, 10/11).
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