FC Barcelona members have approved plans to bring in a supporters terrace as it looks to improve the atmosphere at the Nou Camp stadium.

Barcelona’s social vice-president Jordi Cardoner has outlined the proposal, doctor which aims to create a section in the stadium for the club’s most passionate supporters who can set a “world standard” and “transmit the Barça values around the world”. The section will accommodate 1, pills pills 400 members and received 295 votes in favour, ed 198 against and 33 abstentions at Barcelona’s general assembly.

Cardoner stated that the proposal requires ratification by local authorities, who will need to be satisfied that it doesn’t present safety or security concerns. Therefore no timeline has been set for the implementation of the project.

He said: “This is pending project for Barça fans…it was designed to make the support in our stadium heard more. Sometimes we are lacking in volume at difficult times. Perhaps it’s because we Catalans sometimes find it hard to express ourselves collectively. Our stadium needs the kind of support that our team deserves. Many other teams have much noisier supporters than we do, and our team deserves more.”

FIFA have counteracted the recent crisis at the Syrian FA by appointing a normalisation committee to resolve the issues. 

It will be responsible with organising elections for a new Syrian FA Executive Committee by Dec. 11 “with none of the members of the committee having the right to contest in the elections”, the Asian Football Confederation reports.

Last week, a FIFA spokesman said that it was monitoring the crisis in Syrian football after the board of its federation resigned following the country’s ban from Brazil World Cup qualifying. 

FIFA’s disciplinary committee ruled last month to disqualify the Middle Eastern country from the ongoing Asian qualifiers after Syria thrashed Tajikistan 6-1 on aggregate during July’s second round. 

Syria had fielded an ineligible player in George Murad who had played for Sweden earlier in his career.

FIFA’s disciplinary panel on Aug. 17 declared the first-leg to be lost by Syria by forfeit (0:3) due to Mourad taking part. It reached the same decision regarding the second leg for the same reason.

Tajikistan, world ranked 153, advanced to the third round instead. 

Syria coach Nizar Mahrous quit soon after his national side was booted out of 2014 qualifying. 

“I have lost the will and power to work after all that has happened,” Mahrous was quoted by the Syrian press. “All the efforts we did have been wasted.”

But Tajikistan’s hopes of reaching Brazil 2014 have since evaporated after 1-0 losses to Uzbekistan and North Korea earlier this month.

Currently lying bottom of Asia’s Group C qualifying table, Tajikistan will next play Asian Cup champions Japan home and away in October and November.

Russia’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup will not be affected by the conflict in Ukraine, according to the country’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko.

The local organising committee chairman and a FIFA board member, said he did not foresee “any major issues.”

“It’s a different subject and it will not influence preparations for the World Cup at all,” Mutko told a briefing designed to explain Russia’s $US20 billion project to host the next World Cup.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is scheduled to attend Sunday’s (Monday AEST) World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro, and take part in a handover ceremony between host nations with Brazil president Dilma Rousseff.

Mutko said Putin would express Russia’s “immense gratitude” to Brazil for a successful tournament.

Brazil and Russia, which hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February, have defied widespread doubt about their ability to host safe and well organised events.

“Sometimes you have to suffer some criticism,” Mutko said through a translator. “Criticism is important. It is stimulating, it’s constructive.”

Mutko also said he expects Russia to be cleared of any doubt when a FIFA investigation of the 2018 and 2022 bid campaigns is resolved, likely in September.

London Olympics and Paralympics ticket sales smashed forecasts by raising £659m, a record for the events – despite 300,000 tickets remaining unsold.

London Organising Committee for Olympic Games (LOCOG) confirmed that almost 11 million tickets were sold, but revealed that 300,000 tickets remained unsold, more than two-thirds of them for the early rounds of the football tournament.

Many events were hit by poor attendances in the early days of the Olympics with embarrassing gaps appearing in areas reserved for the media, athletes and officials.

They were later filled when thousands of free tickets were made available to students, soldiers and volunteers.

Sponsorship deals and record revenues from ticket sales helped London organisers to hit their target of raising £2.4b to stage the Olympics and Paralympics.

The income covered the core costs of putting on the world’s largest sporting event, said Paul Deighton, the chief executive of the London Organising Committee (LOCOG) for the Games in July and August.

“Throughout this period we have made clear our aim for LOCOG to break even, and we remain confident that our revenues will meet our costs,” Deighton said in a written submission to the London Assembly.

London organisers raised almost £750m through domestic sponsorship deals with more than 40 businesses.

That was almost on a par with the sum reported by Beijing after it hosted the Games in 2008 and almost four times what Athens generated in 2004, the last time the summer Games were in Europe.

Omnisport, the multi-platform sports news service, powered by sports media group PERFORM, has today announced the launch of an innovative new service that will see relevant localised video news produced for eight international markets.

The launch marks the first time a sports news service has created a tailored product for both regional and country specific markets.

Omnisport Regional Feeds will launch with a localised sports news feed for the UK, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Australian, Brazilian and Spanish speaking Latin American markets. The editorial agenda will focus on combining both internationally relevant and local breaking sports news as well as viral content tailored to local audiences, delivering an average of 25 video stories per day in each language, with all content formatted and cleared for multi-platform distribution.

Simon Denyer, PERFORM’s joint-CEO commented: “This marks an exciting evolution of the Omnisport service. We have listened to our partners and enhanced our offering to not only localise the content, but also provide a more socially engaging editorial focus. Increasingly multi-platform broadcasters need content that can go straight into their bulletins and on to their digital services. Whilst the core international Omnisport service will remain the same, the introduction of Omnisport Regional Feeds is, we believe, the first time a global sports news provider has created locally tailored video stories that are 100% relevant to the local market, voiced in the local language and ready to go straight onto clients’ services.”

The introduction of the Omnisport Regional Feeds service adds to Omnisport’s current global news coverage, meaning the service will now distribute 10,000 news videos every year in 15 different language variants including English, Australian English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, South American Spanish, German, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese and Korean.

Omnisport, which launched in 2010, was the first sports news service to provide content specifically cleared and formatted for multi-platform distribution and currently distributes raw video footage, page-ready content and fully produced programming to over 150 partners around the world.

IMG Worldwide Inc (IMG) and Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB) have announced a joint exclusive representation partnership in speaking engagements of St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, viagra order who led the team to victory in the recently completed World Series.

LaRussa, considered one of the greatest managers in Major League Baseball history, ranks second overall in all-time with 70 post season wins and third in all-time regular season wins at 2,278, over the course of a 32-year career.

This is the first joint collaboration between IMG and WSB. Sandy Montag, IMG Senior Corporate Vice President and Managing Director of IMG Clients, said: “We are delighted to work closely with WSB as this will enable Tony to enjoy the strengths of both our fine organizations.”

WSB Co-CEO, Harry Rhoads, Jr. echoed similar sentiments and also added, “We are very pleased to work with our great friends at IMG with whom we have enjoyed a long and prosperous relationship.”

Real Madrid president Florentino Perex was delighted by the Club’s plans for redevelopment of the Bernabeu stadium after it was approved on Sunday but warned against hostile takeover’s that may damage the club.

The La Liga giant’s general assembly gave the go-ahead for the plan, which will transform the 80,000 plus stadium. The redevelopment will see the Bernabeu receive a new facelift, along with parking facilities and green areas. Images on the club’s official website showed the stadium completely wrapped in a neon blue cover, with only the pitch remaining uncovered.

Perez told club members that the redevelopment “will represent a radical change to the stadium’s look and will mean that all the stands will now be covered.” He added: “We will provide our stadium with an enveloping skin that will be a landmark architectural achievement worldwide. The Bernabeu must become a unique stadium, the best in the world, and the crowning achievement of the 21st century. It will be our legacy to future generations of Madridistas.”

The Bernabeu has undergone a number of renovations since it opened in 1947. Perez oversaw a significant redevelopment of the stadium during his first spell in power between 2001 and 2006.

While this is good news for the immediate future of the club Perez has spotted a threat for the distant future as he wants to guard from hostile takeovers.

Perez has plans to change the member-owned team’s statutes to prevent a hostile takeover after buyouts in the English Premier League and other championships.

Perez told the club’s annual general meeting yesterday he was concerned a wealthy investor could try and ally with some members to buy the nine-time European champions.

Foreign investors such as the U.S.’s Glazer family, who bought Manchester United for $1.2 billion in 2005, have acquired clubs in the English Premier League over the last decade. The Qatar Investment Authority agreed to take control of Paris Saint-Germain in May.

“A rich man could come along like in England or France and with the support of some members take over the club,” Perez said. “That’s a concern, of course, and we intend to change the statutes to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Real remains the biggest team by sales in any sport after revenue climbed 8.6 percent to $646 million in the year to June 30, according to Perez. Real has led Deloitte LLP’s list of biggest soccer teams by sales since overtaking Manchester United in 2005.

The club’s revenue has increased an average 14 percent every year since 2000, Perez said. Like archrival Barcelona, Real Madrid is owned by its members who vote in its president and board of directors every four years. Real has about 90,000 members.