Location: Auckland, check New Zeland

Closing date: 14th October 2016

Overview:

Are you an experienced not-for-profit leader looking for a new challenge? Do you know about community sport? Are you passionate about hockey? Then Auckland (AK) Hockey might be looking for you! Based at Lloyd Elsmore Park in Pakuranga, AK Hockey is the largest hockey association in New Zealand and we are recruiting a new CEO. The successful candidate will be joining AK Hockey at an exciting time as we look to maximize our on-field success and prepare for a number of major capital asset development projects over the next 3 years.

Serving over 6,300 members, AK Hockey provides competitions; community programs; events; coach and athlete development programs; and a successful representative program for juniors through to masters as well as managing the Lloyd Elsmore Hockey Stadium. To be our new CEO, you will need proven success as a positive leader who can manage complex projects, resolve situations by thinking outside the square and naturally have a collaborative attitude. Being relationship focused and an effective communicator with outstanding strategic and business acumen, you will knowledgeable about community sport, especially hockey.

As the leader of a small team delivering big results, we expect you to be charismatic, approachable, passionate and results focused with the following skills and experience:

• – Strategic planning and implementation
• – Project management
• – Strong business and financial acumen
• – Leadership and change management
• – Outstanding communication
• – Board Reporting
• – Staff and volunteer management
• – Health and safety awareness and good practice
• Apply: Please email David Curtis at execmanager@akhockey.org.nz for a copy of the role description or to apply for this exciting position.

Borussia Mönchengladbach and AUDI AG, ed have extended their long-existing partnership until 2020/21.

AUDI AG, order based in Ingolstadt, allergist have extended their co-sponsor contract as Borussia’s official automobile sponsor, which was due to end in 2018, by three years until 2021.

“Audi is one of Germany’s biggest brands and for us they are an important, reliable and faithful partner, which also has a strong connection with Borussia Mönchengladbach when it comes to fan appreciation. We’re looking forward to continuing our work together,” told Borussia’s chief executive Stephan Schippers.

Audi became a Premium Partner of Borussia’s back in 2004 when BORUSSIA-PARK opened and since the 2012/13 season they have been Co-Sponsors.

“We always strive for long-term cooperation with our sponsors, in which mutual goals can be defined and developed. In Audi, we have had exactly that since 2004,” said Guido Uhle, procurator and head of sponsoring at Borussia.

“This early contract extension is the result of successful and sustainable partnership, which is exactly what we want to continue in the coming years,” added Toni Melfi, head of communication at AUDI AG.

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Eurosport has agreed an extension of its partnership with the English Premier League, generic to broadcast matches exclusively in Romania on TV and online for three seasons from 2016/17.

Coverage will also include highlights, prescription dedicated magazines and reruns.

Read more HERE.

By Christian Radnedge

FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin al-Hussein says he is deeply worried by the latest reports of corruption at the governing body.

The FIFA executive committee member released a statement after German magazine Der Spiegel alleged at the weekend that criticism of Sepp Blatter in a report by FIFA’s former head of reform Mark Pieth was watered down by the world football federation’s legal adviser, Marco Villiger.

Swiss governance expert Pieth originally submitted a preliminary 15-page draft of his report in February last year, and Villiger had sent it back on March 13 with 37 notes and various deletions.

Pieth went on to leave FIFA in frustration later in 2014, having pushed through only a handful of his proposals.

The German magazine claims  that passages in Pieth’s final report were amended to remove comments about Blatter’s “leadership responsibilities [as general secretary] during the ISL affair” as well as his “possible complicity in the scandal.”

On Monday, Jordan’s Prince Ali – who will challenge Blatter for the presidency in Zurich in May along with Michael van Praag and Luis Figo – explained in a statement his view on the allegations.

The statement said: “Media reports over the weekend are a reminder of why we need Michael Garcia’s report into FIFA’s World Cup bidding process to be published in full.

“There does appear to be evidence of interference in the drafting of the so-called independent Pieth report by FIFA. This is deeply worrying and suggests something is not right at the heart of FIFA governance.

“Without publishing the Garcia report in full, FIFA faces the ongoing public suspicion that interference may also have occurred in that case.”

Europe’s governing body UEFA also challenged FIFA’s transparency in the wake of the reports through Pedro Pinto, the former CNN sports reporter who is now media adviser to UEFA president Michel Platini.

Pinto, via Twitter, said: “The latest revelations regarding the Pieth report show that FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee was anything but independent. UEFA has always wondered why it was criticised by Mr Pieth and wrongly accused of blocking FIFA reforms. Now we understand why and where it all came from.”

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