Women's football will get 50% more funding from UEFA from '20 to "try to make it Europe's biggest female sport." An extra €2.75M ($3.2M) will be available for women's football projects per year, funded by profits from the men's European Championship. UEFA also plans to increase the number of qualified female coaches (BBC, 10/15).
Two former heads of the German FA (DFB) and two other officials "will not go on trial for suspected tax evasion" over a payment ahead of the 2006 World Cup hosted by Germany, Frankfurt’s regional court said. Former DFB execs Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach as well as former DFB General Secretary Horst Schmidt and a former FIFA official were charged in June. But the regional court said that it had "not seen enough suspicion of wrongdoing" to warrant a trial (REUTERS, 10/15).
Uruguay National Sports Secretary Fernando Cáceres on Friday said that the Argentinian government confirmed it will go ahead with the joint Argentina-Uruguay-Paraguay bid for hosting the 2030 World Cup. In contrast to stories circulating in Argentina that the country may drop out of the bid "due to economic problems," Cáceres said that "Argentina reaffirmed its commitment" (XINHUA, 10/13).
