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German Football Clubs Setting Example On, Off Pitch Ahead Of Champions Final05 / 24 / 13Champions League finalists Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund "are the envy of football fans across Europe for the way the German clubs run their business as well as their success on the field," according to Grohmann & Weir of REUTERS. Bayern and Dortmund are the top two teams in the Bundesliga... Tags: International Football, Europe |
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Bundesliga Clubs Move To Top
FC Bayern Munich and rival Borussia Dortmund are reaching new highs in the global football hierarchy, according to research done by Repucom. Bayern Munich has 17.8 million avid fans in 11 key European and Asian markets -- not including Germany, while its UEFA Champions League final opponen ...
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Gibraltar Moves Toward Football Freedom
The "latest flash point of sports and int'l politics" is Gibraltar, the tiny tip of the Iberian Peninsula that for centuries has endured as a tug of war between Spain and Britain, according to James Montague of the N.Y. TIMES. The current dispute centers on the Gibraltar football team, an "unlikely ...
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Argentine Fan Registration System Ready
Argentine football club Boca Juniors "has everything ready to start registration for the AFA Plus, the Argentine FA administration system for biometric entrance into Argentine football stadiums," according to OLE. The registration center is located on the lower level of La Bombonera stadium in Bueno ...
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ManU has refinanced more than £192M ($290M) of high-interest debt, cutting the club's interest costs by around £10M ($15M) a year. ManU said in a statement it has "secured a new loan from Bank of America with far lower interest rates." ManU said that the new loan would "have an estimated ...
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Legal Issues Of Moving 2022 World Cup
Germany's Bundesliga "has warned that any attempt to move the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to the winter could lead to legal challenges by European leagues," according to the BBC. UEFA President Michel Platini said that the World Cup could be moved, "but European leagues might be disrupted for up t ...
Championship Clubs Want Safe-Standing
The Football League "is facing mounting pressure to back trials for safe standing after an overwhelming majority of Championship clubs went against the League's stance" and voted in favor of permitting trials at a meeting earlier this season, according to Robin Scott-Elliot of the London INDEPENDENT ...
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The Competition Committee decided to sanction Real Madrid coach José Mourinho with a two-game suspension, while suspending Cristiano Ronaldo for one game for their actions in last week's Copa del Rey final against Atlético Madrid. Ronaldo was punished for a collision with Atl ...
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EPL Attendance Up 4%
Premier League attendances for '12-13 "have shown an increase of nearly 4% on the previous season," according to the BBC. The average attendance for a game in England's top flight was 35,975, up from 34,601 in '11-12. The official figures "show crowds have fluctuated across Europe, with Barcelona's ...
Mourinho Criticized By Media, Fans
After the official announcement that José Mourinho will be leaving Real Madrid, Spanish newspapers "have roundly accused him of failing at Real Madrid as they jeered his three-year reign at the Bernabeu and his failure to win more silverware," according to the London TELEGRAPH. Marca ran "The ...
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Real Madrid President Seeks Re-Election
After confirming that José Mourinho is stepping down as coach of Real Madrid, club President Florentino Pérez announced that he will run for re-election on June 16, according to MARCA. Pérez: "I don't know if there will be another candidate. There has always been at least one ot ...
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