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Football Notes: Barcelona Snubs Premios Marca Event To Protest Tebas' Award

Barcelona "made the decision to shun the Premios Marca event in Madrid on Monday" in protest for La Liga President Javier Tebas being handed the Puerta-Jarque Fair Play Award. The Catalan club's relationship with Tebas has "deteriorated in the last few weeks" after comments he made following the "bottle throwing incident" in Barcelona's 3-2 win over Valencia. Tebas suggested Barça's players provoked the home supporters (ESPN.com, 11/8).

German second division club Dynamo Dresden has been fined €60,000 ($66,100) and will have parts of its stands "closed for one game after their fans threw a severed bull’s head near the pitch during a Cup match." The German FA (DFB) announced on Tuesday that repeat offender Dynamo, which was "already on probation following incidents last season," had failed to safeguard its high-risk German Cup game in August against RB Leipzig, which is nicknamed the Bulls. This is not the first time Dynamo has been sanctioned, "with the club having been suspended from the German Cup" in the '13-14 season because of crowd trouble (London GUARDIAN, 11/8).

The FA of Malaysia's congress-cum-election will be held on March 25. The national body finalized the election date on Monday. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 23, and the final list of candidates will be finalized on Feb. 20, for president, two deputy presidents, four VPs and exco members (NEW STRAITS TIMES ONLINE, 11/7).

Liga MX side Chiapas players claimed in a letter to Liga MX President Enrique Bonilla that "the team has again failed to make payments." The players "highlighted that they have only received 20-40% of payment from the past month, and the majority of us are owed between two and two-and-a-half months' salary" (LA AFICIÓN, 11/7).

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