Spanish football club Atletico Madrid have announced that their new stadium will be officially named Wanda Metropolitano.

The capital club, prostate who lost out to local rivals Real Madrid in May’s Champions League Final, nurse previously played at the Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid; until their move to their current home stadium, sales currently known as the Vicente Calderon, in 1966.

The Wanda Group own 20% of Atletico, and will sponsor the new stadium from the beginning of the 2017-18 campaign.

The club have also unveiled a new club badge, with captain Gabi declaring, ‘’I like the badge because it’s true to our history’’.

Location: Edinburgh, symptoms Scotland

Closing date: 25th November 2016

Overview:

Salary: £32, seek 000

Status of Role: Full time

Place of work: Caledonia House, South Gyle, Edinburgh

Scottish Gymnastics has embarked on an exciting journey with a 12 year strategy that will see the growth of ‘a strong Scottish Gymnastics, inspiring and nurturing emerging talent’. Key to the success of this vision is the effectiveness of our communication and marketing strategy.

Using your wide-ranging communications skills, you will be responsible for developing a clear communications strategy for the organisation and, using your influence both internally and externally, implement and deliver your strategy.

In addition to leading on the development of a communications strategy, setting the direction for the organisation’s communications, you will also have responsibility for marketing all events and activities, media relations, social media platforms and developing content and material to promote Scottish Gymnastics and its work. This will include designing material as part of promotional campaigns.

The successful candidate will have experience in developing and executing both external and internal communications strategies as well as delivering promotional and revenue returns from a wide mix of marketing and communications activities. The role requires candidates to be able to provide direction and influence and be able to develop strong, effective working relationships with key partners and stakeholders.

Candidates will require excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills along with the ability to work on their own initiative, is pro-active and able to manage multiple projects and deliver to deadlines. Candidates will need knowledge of Microsoft Office products and significant experience with using, developing and maximising social media platforms and strategies and have a flair for creative design.

The full job description and person specification can be found at here.

If you would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Lara Gregson, Operations Manager on 0131 271 9736.

If you think you are right for Scottish Gymnastics and this role excites you, please send us a letter of application outlining your experience, along with a copy of your CV to HR@scottishgymnastics.org to arrive no later than Friday 25 November.  Interviews will be held on Tuesday 6th December.

Scottish Gymnastics is an equal opportunities employer and aims to provide a working environment free from any form of harassment, intimidation, victimisation or unjustifiable discrimination. We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of discrimination. All appointments are made purely on the basis of merit and ability.

Liberty’s mega purchase of F1 down to “uniqueness and potential”

John Tinker, financial analyst with Gabelli & Company, has claimed that Liberty Media Company (LMCA) is paying 17 times the firm’s earnings of $479 million (£361 million) due to “the uniqueness of the franchise and potential size of the market”, stressing the financial incentives of the deal.

American firm Liberty Media has acquired a 19% stake in Formula One, their first step in taking full control by 2017 for a total of around $8 billion (£6 billion).

Liberty Media made the first transaction of $746 million (£562 million) on 7 Sep, with the second expected in the first quarter of 2017 when the American media company will gain complete control and change its name to the Formula One Group.

Read more HERE

EXCLUSIVE: Talking Arsenal around the world

In modern football a handful of clubs have grown so large that they have turned into global brands in their own right. More people around the world are watching European teams play, and are looking to engage with their favourite clubs, from markets far and wide.

Mark Gonnella is the communications director at Arsenal, and is tasked with growing Arsenal’s world, by speaking to more fans in more and more relevant ways.

Read his thoughts HERE

UIPM successfully introduce Bonus Round at Rio 2016

The introduction of the Bonus Round Fencing to Modern Pentathlon is the latest innovation from UIPM, following the adoption of the Combined Event in London.

With the Olympic debut of the Bonus Round taking place in Rio UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann said:

“UIPM introduced the Combined Event in London as a new and vibrant climax to the Olympic competition. It was a dramatic spectacle and at the same time a very difficult test of nerve and stamina, and the capacity crowd in London was thrilled.”

Read the full opinion of Schormann HERE

Rio Paralympics exceeding expectations as 2 millionth ticket sold

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games are “exceeding expectations” according to the International Paralympic Committee, as they confirm that 2 million tickets have now been sold.

The rapid rise in ticket sales have given organisers a boost after the dismal expectations of the Games after the Olympics, when only 12 per cent had been sold.

Craig Spence, the director of communications for the IPC, told iSportconnect that the enforced cutbacks to the event had not had an adverse effect and that the Games were above and beyond what the governing body expected.

Read what he had to say HERE

Special Report – What to do when the worst happens

Every business will go through bad patches. But occasionally something will go badly wrong, that could threaten the business itself – a crisis.

Crisis management and preparation is becoming an essential part of running a business. With the growth of social media, news of errors in judgement and controversies can spread quicker than ever before.

Charlotte Thompson, a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice, explains how important it is for companies and businesses to plan for things going wrong.

Read her thoughts and the thoughts of Adrian Bevington and Jonathan Levy HERE

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Jaguar has announced a new title sponsor in Panasonic.

Going forward, the team will be known as Panasonic Jaguar Racing and Panasonic is joining the team as part of a multi-year partnership as a title sponsor. 

The team’s car, called the I-Type 1, looks similar to the one that was teased last December, but more fine-tuned and with a big Panasonic logo on all sides.  J

Jaguar says it completed 21 days of testing on the I-Type 1, including the public Formula E tests at England’s Donington Park.

The team will make its debut at the first race of the third season of Formula E.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Twitter have announced an expanded content partnership that will bring original live programming and video to Twitter, cialis Vine and Periscope.

Through the NBA Digital partnership with Turner, Twitter will deliver a free live stream of a new weekly NBA pregame show with first-of-its-kind elements created specifically for integration with Twitter conversation. 

Ahead of the 2016-17 season, the NBA will announce an additional to-be-determined show that will also stream exclusively on Twitter.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said: “We’re excited about bringing live content to Twitter, which has proven to be an ideal destination for real-time sports conversations,”  

“We’ve seen technology bring fans closer to our game, teams and players in ways we could have only imagined a decade ago.  This expanded partnership will help feed our fans’ growing demand for the NBA by more deeply integrating the league across Twitter’s many platforms.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said: “Twitter is the fastest way to find out what’s happening in the NBA and to have a discussion about it,”  

“Watching NBA basketball together with Twitter is a great experience, and the league has been at the forefront of embracing new ways to reach their fans.  We’re happy to bring even more great NBA content to our global audience.”

The crisis at FIFA reached a new level of turmoil on Thursday after 16 officials were charged by US authorities in relation to corruption. 

The Department of Justice in Washington D.C. released a new indictment several hours after the arrests of two FIFA vice presidents, Alfredo Hawit, also the Concacaf president and Juan Angel Napout Conmebol president.

The pair were arrested on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars in bribes.

After the revelations of the arrests, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressed a press conference in Washington.

“Two generations of soccer officials abused their positions of trust for personal gain, frequently through an alliance of unscrupulous sports marketing executives who shut out competitors and kept highly lucrative contracts for themselves through the systematic payment of bribes and kickbacks,” said Lynch.

“The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous. The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable.

Eight defendants, who had previously been charged as part of the ongoing investigations, have pleaded guilty to corruption and paid back £125m.

Former FIFA Vice-President Jeffrey Webb is among those who entered guilty pleas, after admitting money laundering, wire fraud and racketeering. He has agreed to forfeit $6.7m (£4.4m).

“Certain of the defendants and their co-conspirators, including Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb, took advantage of opportunities to embezzle or personally appropriate funds, including those intended for disaster relief,” added Lynch.

“The Department of Justice is committed to ending the rampant corruption we have alleged amidst the leadership of international soccer – not only because of the scale of the schemes, or the brazenness and breadth of the operation required to sustain such corruption, but also because of the affront to international principles that this behaviour represents.

“The message from this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade our investigation: You will not wait us out. You will not escape our focus.”

Among the 16 officials indicted are former Brazil FA president Ricardo Teixeira and his successor Marco Polo del Nero, who resigned from FIFA’s Executive Committee last week.

This news broke on a day when FIFA’s Executive Committee met to approve proposals for reforms with the aim of, in the words of acting president Issa Hayatou, “restoring FIFA’s credibility as a modern, trusted and professional sports organisation.”

These convictions suggest that world football’s governing body is going to have a major job on its hands to achieve that.

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