Football and industry leaders from China and across Asia and Europe have travelled back home from the World Football Forum 2017 in the Chinese city of Changsha, following three days of discussion, insight – and some world-class football from international football legends Robert Pires, Giazka Mendieta, Gianluca Zambrotta, Gilberto da …
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The World Football Forum 2017 which started yesterday, May 18 in Changsha, China, continued today. The second day of the forum opened with a plenary session “Football Russia: The State of the Game in FIFA’s Host Nation’, followed by the morning keynote address delivered by Alexander Djordjadze, Deputy CEO, 2018 …
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The World Football Forum, a high profile international conference focusing on the multi-billion dollar business of football, opened in Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Centre today, with speeches by Zhang Jian, First Vice President & General Secretary of Chinese Football Association, Xiang Lili, Executive Vice Governor of Hunan Province, Li …
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iSportconnect, the world’s largest global private network of sports business executives, successfully hosted their second China Directors’ Club in association with World Football Forum in the stunning Wanda Visa Hotel in Changsha on Thursday, May 18. Tony Xia Jiantong, Owner and Chairman of Aston Villa Football Club, was the featured …
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The Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) Club Licensing Task Force agreed to commission a benchmarking report into the ‘Asian club football landscape’ at their meeting at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Wednesday. At the Task Force meeting, chaired by Shoji Fujimura of Japan, it was decided the report would …
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A young Bengaluru FC squad went down fighting 1-3 to Mohun Bagan in a Group E fixture of the AFC Cup at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium in Kolkata on Wednesday. With only one team progressing to the knockout stages, Bengaluru FC will need nothing but a win against Maziya S&RC …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Disciplinary and Ethics Committee on Wednesday ordered Persepolis FC (IRN) to play their AFC Champions League (ACL) Round of 16 match against Lekhwiya SC without spectators. This is a result of spectator misconduct at the club’s ACL Group Stage match on May 8 against Al …
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A young Bengaluru FC squad went down fighting 1-3 to Mohun Bagan in a Group E fixture of the AFC Cup at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium in Kolkata on Wednesday. With only one team progressing to the knockout stages, Bengaluru FC will need nothing but a win against Maziya S&RC …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has decided that because of the geo-political tension on the Korean Peninsula the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the UAE Qualifying Final Round match between North Korea and Malaysia, scheduled for Pyongyang on June 8, 2017 should be postponed. The game will now be re-scheduled …
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Independent Head of Integrity Mohammad Ali Al Kamali has written to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) recommending the opening of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of former Guam Football Association President Richard Lai. On April 27, 2017 in Brooklyn, New York, Mr Lai pleaded guilty to two …
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