Mohamed Bin Hammam is still waiting for a “fully motivated decision” from FIFA relating to his lifetime football ban nearly two weeks after the ethics committee’s verdict.

The Qatari has confirmed he will appeal regarding the decision which was made on the July 23 verdict in relation to an ethics probe into the bribery scandal. 

“According to the relevant regulations, an appeal can only be made once the fully motivated decision has been received by the party concerned,” FIFA said in a statement to INSIDER.

“Normally, it takes some time for the fully motivated decision to be finalised and sent. Mr Bin Hammam has not yet received the fully motivated decision.”

FIFA have not responded with a date on releasing the “fully motivated decision”, according to the Qatari, and this has yet to be finalised.

Bin Hammam claims to be sure that he was given the guilty charge before stepping into court and that the ethics of FIFA themselves should be challenged.

The 62-year-old was banned following an investigation into allegations that he attempted to bribe Caribbean Football Union officials at a May meeting in exchange for their votes in his bid to unseat Sepp Blatter in the FIFA presidential election.  

International Sports Management (ISM) talent agency has acquired US-based Rule 1.02 Marketing with the company becoming ISM USA as a result.

ISM founder Chubby Chandler said of the deal: “This is an ideal opportunity for us to broaden our horizons. We will now have the chance to extend our sponsorship opportunities as well as look into the possibility of managing American sportsmen and events.”

Rule 1.02 Marketing staff will move from New Jersey to Manhattan offices as part of the deal.

Founded 21 years ago by former European Tour golfer Chandler, pills ISM known for representing British stars Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy, as well as Masters champion Charl Schwartzel. However, it is also active in cricket with former England captain Andrew Flintoff on the roster, and in soccer, where it represents many players and managers including Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Super League team Salford Red Devils have announced Martin Vickers as their new chief executive.

Vickers takes over from Dave Matthews, who becomes chief financial officer as part of owner Marwan Koukash’s ambitious plans to turn last year’s Super League wooden spoonists into potential champions.

Vickers said: “We are now reaching the point where we need to expand the back-office operation, having completely rejuvenated the playing side of the club.

“It is a great privilege to head up this club as it forges its new path into Super League.

“The rugby league world is closely scrutinising everything that Marwan Koukash is doing here. It is exciting times and we are determined to be in the best possible shape for the kick off.”

China’s eastern city of Nanjing said that the city will be frugal in its approach to new venues as it prepares to host the Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014.

Nanjing Party Chief and the Games’ Organizing Committee Executive President, Yang Weize said the city spend carefully when adding new competition and training venues.

Yang said: “No new venues will be built if old ones can be renovated; no new facilities will be purchased if old ones can be repaired; no equipment will be bought if they can be rented, and they won’t be rented if they can be borrowed.”

Organizing Committee Deputy Secretary General, Liu Yi’an said 25 of the 34 competition and training venues will be renovated.

Five temporary venues will be disassembled or replaced after the Games end, and the four new locations will be opened to the public.

Nanjing has put forward a Games-related budget of RMB2billion ($315M), along with a financial supervision committee. {jcomments on}

WWE announced that it has established investor-oriented channels on the major social media networks, order including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The objective of this initiative, which is part of our global communications program, is to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of WWE’s strategy, operations, performance and customers.

“Our perspective is that social media represents a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. We believe that effective communication with investors and analysts includes the use of social media that is focused on that community,” stated George Barrios, Chief Financial Officer.

To-date, WWE has effectively used social media to share our brands with consumers. With more than 72 million Facebook fans, 28 million Twitter followers, and more than one billion videos viewed on YouTube, WWE can be identified as one of the strongest commercial brands worldwide. This effort is intended to replicate such communication with the financial community.

Italy’s stadia has come under the microscope in recent months, and AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has become the latest club official to criticise the state of the country’s soccer venues, stating Serie A risks falling further behind the rest of Europe through lack of development.

Galliani’s comments come after Cesena president Igor Campedelli last week called for government action to address the problem of Italy’s decaying stadia.

Juventus will break new ground for Italian football in September when it opens its new 41,000-seat stadium, the country’s first privately owned football venue.

However, the majority of Serie A teams still have to pay rental fees to city councils for the right to play in their stadia, impacting on their ability to drive matchday revenue and renovate their home arenas.

As a result of recent performances in European competition, Serie A has fallen behind England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga and Germany’s 1.Bundesliga in the UEFA co-efficients, and Galliani predicts that France’s new stadia development for Euro 2016 will lead to the country overtaking Italy.

“Thanks to the new stadiums being built for Euro 2016, I predict that the French will also overtake us,” he told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “We could be competitive with equal factors and situations, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

Galliani insists that clubs “can’t do anything” to prevent it due to laws surrounding the development of new stadia.

“Spain has the advantage that they don’t have collective TV rights. Germany have overtaken us thanks to the wonderful new stadiums they built for the World Cup in 2006. It’s like theatres and restaurants. There are beautiful theatres and ugly ones; there are luxury restaurants and then pizzerias. But we can’t do anything. Without stadiums we can’t do anything and without a new law we can’t construct new stadiums. Even the politicians have understood that, but the design of the law has remained blocked between the two branches of parliament.”

IMG Media has been appointed by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to act as the official television consultant to the US Open for a number of territories across the globe.

The division of IMG Worldwide replaces Lagardère as the USTA’s TV rights negotiations representative in Europe, cialis Australia, ed New Zealand, Asia (excluding Japan) and the Middle East.

The partnership covers the four-year period from 2013-16, with the US Open taking place at Flushing Meadows in New York every August-September.

Harlan Stone, chief business and marketing officer of the USTA, stated: “We selected IMG Media based on the breadth of experience and depth of relationships in key markets around the globe.”

The 2010 US Open received more than 40,000 hours of national and international television coverage over more than 180 countries.

The USTA has stated that it will work with Lagardère through to the end of this year on the current agreement as well as “a number of additional outside projects”.