Japan will host the inaugural International Women’s Club Championship in November. The tournament will be a straight knockout format, scheduled to begin November 22 at Urawa Komaba Stadium.

The finalists play for the title and US$60,000 prize money three days later at Nack5 Stadium.

Japan Women’s Football League General Secretary, Yoshinori Taguchi, said the event will be held for “at least three years” and hopes it will include teams from other confederations in the future, in the hope of becoming the women’s equivalent of the Club World Cup.{jcomments on}

 

Former United States attorney Michael J. Garcia has been appointed by FIFA as lead prosecutor to investigate allegations of corruption in world football.

One of Garcia’s first tasks will be to inspect a Swiss court document on a Soccer World Cup kickbacks scandal to evaluate the behaviour of Blatter and other senior officials in the affair.

Garcia should have authority to order fresh probes into other old cases, including claims about how FIFA executive committee members awarded hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

His appointment by that same ruling board is seen as a crucial step in Blatter’s promised anti-corruption reforms.

FIFA also selected German judge Joachim Eckert to chair the judging chamber of its ethics court.

Garcia and Eckert are seen as key independent figures from outside the so-called “football family” who can help restore FIFA’s credibility after bribery and vote-buying scandals.

Blatter’s ruling board agreed to create a two-chamber ethics court to prosecute cases more effectively after a panel of anti-corruption experts advising FIFA said previous cases were “insufficiently investigated.”

The 13-member panel, led by Swiss law professor Mark Pieth, wants Garcia to examine claims surrounding how Russia and Qatar came to get World Cup hosting rights in a December 2010 poll of FIFA’s executive committee.

Several senior FIFA officials were reported to have received payments or sought unethical favors from bidders, and Blatter has acknowledged that some breached bidding rules by joining a pact to back Qatar and the failed Spain-Portugal bid.

 

Wie kreativ ist Sponsoring?

Eines der Kernthemen des FASPO SPONSORING SUMMIT 2012 am 22. März in Hamburg

Kreativität und Individualität im Sponsoring ist eines der Kernthemen des SPONSORING SUMMIT 2012, pills den der Fachverband Sponsoring FASPO, troche die zentrale Interessenvertretung der Sponsoringwirtschaft in Deutschland, prostate Österreich und der Schweiz, am 22. März in Hamburg veranstaltet.

Über „Kreativität als das effizienteste Sponsoringtool der Welt“ und die Kraft von Ideen im Zeitalter der Mediendemokratie, spricht Raphael Brinkert, Managing Director Jung von Matt.

Weitere Hauptthemen des Programms:

Die neuesten Zahlen der IFM-Studie Sponsor Visions; das Sportjahr 2012 mit Olympischen Spielen in London und der UEFA-Fußball-EM, mit Referaten der Deutschen Sport-Marketing GmbH sowie der Top-Sponsoren Vattenfall und Sharp. Ausführlich wird auch Kultursponsoring dargestellt und diskutiert: Unter anderem wird das Kultur-Engagement von Audi, eines der größten deutschen Kultursponsoren, durch Audi-Manager Jürgen Bachmann präsentiert sowie Musik-Sponsoring bei Konzerten und im Rahmen von Social Media thematisiert.

Am Abend der Veranstaltung werden die 19. Internationalen Sponsoring Awards vergeben und namhafte Persönlichkeiten mit der Aufnahme in die HALL OF FAME SPONSORING geehrt.

Das komplette Programm des in der Handelskammer Hamburg stattfindenden FASPO Sponsoring Summit 2012 sowie Anmeldemöglichkeiten unter www.faspo.de

und per Mail über info@faspo.de oder telefonisch über die FASPO-Geschäftsstelle: +49(0)40 609508-33, Fax -34. Das Programm sehen Sie außerdem auch im Kapitel Events auf der isportconnect.com Website.

FASPO Fachverband für Sponsoring e.V., Rödingsmarkt 43, D-20459 Hamburg 

Tel. +49 (0) 40 609508-33, Fax -34, E-Mail: info@faspo.de, www.faspo.de

FASPO Schweiz, c/o Felten & Cie AG, Zürcherstrasse 41, CH-8400 Winterthur

Tel. +41 (0) 52 26908 00, Fax -01, E-Mail: info@faspo.ch, www.faspo.ch

FASPO Austria, c/o e|motion management gmbh, Gußhausstraße 15, A-1040 Wien

Tel. +43 (0) 1 5355285 20, Fax -80

Leeds United have announced that it has signed a three-year deal with BBC Radio Leeds for live match commentary.

BBC Leeds, who last provided full match commentaries during the 2007/08 season, will return to the gantry for the new season after agreeing a new deal to supply Leeds United match commentaries on FM around the region.

Leeds United Managing Director David Haigh said: “The BBC and Leeds United are a natural fit as two great institutions, both locally and nationally. It’s a good deal for our fans, many of whose association with the club was forged through listening to BBC commentaries.

“It is also key to our strategy of maximising the value of an association with the club while creating the widest possible exposure for the club and all its commercial partners and followers.”

“Having been a former member of the BBC Radio Cornwall Sport scene team this is an especially good day for me.”

Helen Thomas, Head of BBC Yorkshire, said: “This is excellent news for BBC Radio Leeds and we very much look forward to working with Leeds United over the next three years.”

The BBC will provide full commentary on all matches from the opening Championship game of the season against Brighton on Saturday August 3.

Shanghai Shenhua and Chinese Super League officials have said that the team will play its game on Saturday against Changchun Yatai as scheduled following a one-day pay-related training protest.

A complicated disagreement over the clubs ownership is also reportedly close to being resolved with Zhu Jun, the club’s major investor, to officially take control.

Zhu reportedly sent an ultimatum to the club’s five other part-owners, all from state-owned enterprises last week, demanding the large stake transfer that he had been promised, otherwise he would stop paying wages and bonuses.”

Shareholders of the five state-owned enterprises are believed to have agreed to complete the transfer by the end of 2012, which would take Zhu’s stake in the club from 28.5 percent to 75 percent.{jcomments on}

 

The Colombian Olympic Committee has announced the appointment of Juan Camilo Medina Quintero as manager of the Medellin bid for Youth Olympic Games 2018. 

After the meeting of the Organizing Committee for the bid Medellín 2018, the Mayor  of Medellin Anibal Gaviria shared his decision with the committee members of Quintero’s appointment.. 

The meeting of the organizing committee addressed areas of importance regarding the 2018 project.

They discussed issues of ticketing, dates of the Games and progress in the document to be delivered to the International Olympic Committee. 

Quintero had been serving as Private Secretary to the Mayor and was also Secretary for Productivity in the Government of Antioquia and CEO of Tecnova.

Channel 4 Racing has added more horseracing coverage after announcing Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Europe’s premier middle-distance all-aged Flat race, will return to terrestrial television in October after the british broadcaster secured a deal.

The Longchamp showpiece had previously been televised by Channel 4 from 1986 to 1994 and in 2001 while it had been shown on the BBC until their decision to stop televising racing which meant last year’s race was not available on mainstream TV.

Channel 4 did have the option of screening last year’s race also but after investing heavily in British racing they have now decided to strike a deal with France Galop to show the race on October 6.

A message on Channel 4’s twitter feed said: “The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe returns to terrestrial television! Will be shown LIVE ON CHANNEL 4 on Sunday 6th October.”

Portsmouth Supporters’ Trust (PST) are ecstatic following news the administrators named them the preferred bidder for the club

Administrators PKF announced the decision in a statement released on Thursday.

Trevor Birch, PKF partner and joint administrator of Portsmouth, said in a statement: “After extensive discussions over the past few weeks, we have today nominated Portsmouth Supporters Trust as the preferred bidder for Portsmouth football club.

“We will be working with the Trust, the Football League and the Professional Footballers’ Association to conclude the sale of the club as soon as possible.”

Iain McInnes, proposed Chairman of Portsmouth under the PST bid, said: “We are energised that our bid, by the fans and for the fans, has been preferred by the club’s administrators.

“Although there remains a huge amount of work to be done to ensure the right outcome for the club, we are confident we will succeed.

“We believe our bid is realistic and credible, which is a view shared by the administrator.

“We will be working closely with Trevor Birch and his team in the coming days and weeks to ensure our bid will meet all legal and financial requirements.”

CONCACAF, the governing body for football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, has appointed Colombian Enrique Sanz as its new general secretary.

He will replace acting secretary Ted Howard, who in turn replaced American official Chuck Blazer, who resigned from the position in January.

“Sanz will have a key role in the administration of CONCACAF,” said CONCACAF President Jeffery Webb, who made the appointment, which was unanimously approved by the federation’s Executive Committee. “I am certain that we have found a professional with competence and integrity to implement our road map to reform.

Sanz joins CONCACAF after nearly 15 years as vice president of Traffic Sports USA, where he helped lay the foundations for the second-tier North American Soccer League in the USA and Canada, among other accomplishments.

“With this appointment, and as part of CONCACAF’s new leadership, I understand that my mandate is to oversee the administration of the CONCACAF, so that we may achieve our mission, which is to develop football throughout the region,” Sanz said in a statement.