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Europe

PUMA signs long-term partnership with PSV Eindhoven!

Sports company PUMA has entered into a new long-term partnership with PSV Eindhoven, one of the Netherlands most successful football clubs. Under the terms of the deal, PUMA will become the official kit supplier of the club, starting in July 2020. PSV Eindhoven have won twenty-four Eredivisie league titles and …

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2020 UEFA Super Cup match ball designed by children!

This season’s UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League winners will play the annual UEFA Super Cup match in Porto on August 12 with a special match ball featuring a series of children’s drawings integrated into the ball’s design. The drawings are the work of 18 children with different backgrounds …

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Candidates for UEFA Executive Committee & FIFA Council announced!

Following the resignation of Germany’s Reinhard Grindel in 2019 from his positions as a UEFA Executive Committee member and FIFA Council member, elections for these two positions will be held at the 44th Ordinary UEFA Congress on March 3, 2020 in Amsterdam. By the set deadline of Friday, January 3 …

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AIFF Masterclass: Total Football simplified by Johan Neeskens!

We have had great players and we have had legendary ones. And yet there are those who have, forever, left their footprints on the sands, changed the ‘Beautiful Game,’ and moulded it in a manner that improved the sport world over. Former Netherlands International and ex-Ajax Amsterdam and FC Barcelona …

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UEFA solidarity payments: how they work!

European football governing body UEFA has allocated €128.69m for clubs across Europe to invest in football development projects. What is the objective of UEFA’s solidarity payments? Solidarity payments are distributed through national associations to clubs to invest in their youth development programmes and/or local community schemes: Only clubs not participating in the …

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Coaching the coaches: Europe’s coach educators convene in Cyprus!

European football’s top coach educators gathered in Nicosia for UEFA’s latest Coach Education Conference. It’s a rare moment when football’s floodlights focus on the ‘coaches of the coaches’ and their critical contribution to the sport’s well-being. Football fans know it’s the coach’s job to get the best out of players. …

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Liverpool FC agree deal to sign Japan’s Takumi Minamino!

UEFA Champions League winner Liverpool FC have confirmed an agreement has been reached with Red Bull Salzburg for the transfer of Takumi Minamino. The Japan international forward will officially become a Reds player on January 1, 2020 after he finalised personal terms and passed a medical on Merseyside. Minamino said, …

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Sweden beat India 4-0 to win U-17 Women’s Football Tournament 2019!

Sweden clinched victory in the final of the U17 Women’s Football Tournament 2019 with a 4-0 win against hosts India on Thursday, December 19 at the Mumbai Football Arena. The Swedes took the lead as early as the fourth minute through Rusul Kafaji, who struck a shot from outside the …

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FIFA World Rankings: India stay 108th, Belgium stay No. 1!

Earlier in the day, the latest FIFA ‘Coca Cola’ Men’s World Ranking were released by the world football governing body and in the December rankings, India stay in 108th position behind Kenya and Palestine, but ahead of Central African Republic; while 2018 FIFA World Cup semifinalists Belgium stays No. 1. …

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