The World Football Forum 2017 was hosted in the Chinese city of Changsha from May 18 to 20 which featured the hot football topics of our times besides the host country China, next years 2018 FIFA World Cup hosts Russia and this years 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup hosts India. …
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At the invitation of AIFF president Praful Patel, the General Secretary of the Asian Football Confederation Dato Windsor John visited India on Wednesday, May 24 for discussions on the future roadmap for Indian Football. Mr. Patel, Dato Windsor and AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das had an extensive discussion on the …
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The recent AFC Grassroots Football Day has been hailed as a resounding success with a record number of Member Associations contributing to the event. BAHRAIN The Bahrain Football Association (BFA) organised a festival and grassroots instructors course for all affiliate clubs under its purview at the National Stadium on May …
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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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