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EPL Clubs See Home Attendance Up 4% In '12-13, While SPL Gate Drops 28%05 / 22 / 13Premier 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 ... |
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Valencia Tallies $203.5M In Transfers
La Liga club Valencia has "the most international team in the history of the club," with very few Spanish players in the squad, according to Diego Picó of MARCA. It's a trend that has occurred over the last four years as more Spanish players have been sold to other European clubs "in an effor ...
Tags: La Liga, Europe, International Football
Del Piero Causing Surge In Ticket Sales
Sydney FC "has received an instant boost from its signing of Italian football great Alessandro Del Piero," with huge numbers of fans logging on to its ticketing websites and fan forums on Thursday, according to the NEW ZEALAND HERALD. The interest was "so great" that the A-League club extended its d ...
Tags: International Football, Australia
EPL Clubs Meet To Talk FFP
West Ham United Co-Owner David Gold revealed that as many as 17 Premier League teams are "in favor of introducing financial control measures" in an effort to prevent football's richest league from operating with losses, according to Tariq Panja of BLOOMBERG. Representatives from the EPL's 20 clubs m ...
Tags: Europe, International Football
Barça Working On New Messi Deal
Lionel Messi was one of the two highest-paid footballers in the world two years ago, but he is now the ninth-highest earner, according to Luis Rojo of MARCA. Barcelona "is well aware" of that fact, and "plans do to something about it." They have let Messi know that a new contract "is being prepared. ...
Tags: International Football, Europe
Sydney FC Scores With Del Piero Signing
Italian Alessandro Del Piero has signed with A-League Sydney FC to become "the highest-paid footballer of any code to play in Australia," according to Sebastian Hassett of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The two-year, A$2M-a-season deal was confirmed when Del Piero "appeared at a press conference" beside ...
Tags: International Football, Australia
Russia To Reveal World Cup Host Cities
The Local Organizing Committee and FIFA will announce the host cities of the 2018 FIFA Russia World Cup on Sept. 29 in Moscow. The 13 cities competing to host the event are: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Saransk, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, ...
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Indian Football Draws Cameroon Players
Several footballers from a second-string Cameroon side "want to play in India's lucrative I-League, given the falling standards back home," according to the IANS. The Cameroon league is semi-professional, and the players who are paid the most receive only about $1,000 a month. Cameroon Coach Emmanue ...
Tags: International Football, India
Ronaldo Faces 'I'm Sad' Backlash
Never has a short sentence caused "so much commotion" as Cristiano Ronaldo's "I'm sad," according to MARCA. Few were aware that Ronaldo was "in possession of a bombshell that was just waiting to be dropped." Even Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez and right-hand man José Áng ...
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Tolstykh To Lead Russian Football
Experienced Sports Administrator and former footballer Nikolai Tolstykh was elected as the new president of the Russian Football Union (RFS). He takes the helm after Sergei Fursenko stepped down in June. Russian Olympic Committee CEO Tolstykh spoke of his wish to further develop the game in his coun ...
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Eto'o Tops List Of Best Paid Footballers
Russian Premier League's FC Anzhi Makhachkala striker Samuel Eto'o is the best-paid footballer in the world at €20M ($25.2M) annually, according to Rubén Jiménez of MARCA. Rounding out the top three are Paris St. Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimovic (€14.5M/$18.2M) and ManU's Wayne R ...
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