Former footballers Nadine Kessler and Dejan Stankovic have taken up roles with UEFA, the governing body of European football.

Kessler has joined UEFA’s team as a women’s football advisor, which will give her the opportunity to pass on her knowledge for the good of the women’s game.

Her main roles will include helping to oversee the development of women’s football, as well as having an input in the growth of women’s competitions.

Stanković, one of Serbia’s most decorated footballers and a UEFA Champions League winner with Inter Milan , has also moved to Nyon to take up a role as a football development advisor.

He will work on UEFA projects assisting UEFA national associations to develop their best talents at the age of 14/15, as well as ensuring that top-class football education provided in the very early stage of their growth enhances the technical level of the future professional footballers.

UEFA, the governing body of European football, have confirmed that the EURO 2024 tournament will be held in either Germany or Turkey.

The countries were the only two to submit a firm declaration of interest before the March 3 deadline. There had been significant talk of a joint Scandinavian bid, but it failed to materialise.

Both federations must produce a bid dossier by April 2018, with European football’s governing body choosing the winner the following September.

“It’s clear that there will be two strong bids for Uefa’s showcase national team competition, and it will be a tough decision to make,” said Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis.

Turkey has twice bid for the European Championships already this century, as well as showing interest in hosting the Olympics.

Portugal are the current holders of the European Championship, after defeating hosts France in the 2016 edition.

 

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Closing Date: March 24, 2017

Overview:

The Information and Knowledge Management Specialist contributes to the delivery, integrity and enhancement of information and knowledge. He/she contributes to activities and projects and ensures optimal integration of information and knowledge management practices within existing procedures.

Main responsibilities

• Develop knowledge management expertise within the organisation and ensure that this expertise is shared among and subscribed to by colleagues. Manage activities and services that depend on such expertise.
• Manage or contribute to the various projects involving the unit.
• Contribute to managing and analysing requests, developing management tools and methods, and adopting and implementing solutions.
• Conduct analyses on a regular basis to suggest improvements and solutions.
• Manage organisation information, legal and financial documents, incoming and outgoing information, reference documents and all administrative archives.
• Be the contact person for internal clients (departments, programmes, etc.) for information and knowledge management services; identify possible improvements and key issues; propose solutions.
• Provide optimal support and quality service for both internal and external requests; respond to requests and assist users.
• Assist with implementing a transparent information and knowledge management process within the IOC.
• Contribute to the adoption of information and knowledge management best practices.
• Assist with optimising and developing information and content management based on existing strategies and the needs of the institution.
• Help manage key aspects of information management such as information mapping, classification, etc.
• Contribute to information good governance (policies, procedures, instructions, standards, etc.).

Profile and skills

• Information and knowledge management training (university degree, HES or equivalent).
• Significant relevant experience in the field of information and knowledge management (three years).
• Proven experience in project management.
• Proven experience in using content management tools such as OpenText CS, SharePoint, etc.
• Knowledge of other platforms – portals, extranets – would be an asset.
• Good knowledge of the latest trends in technology and services, combined with genuine adaptability.
• Excellent written and oral knowledge of French and English.

 

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Budapest 2024 Chairman Balazs Furjes has confirmed today that a final decision on the city’s 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid will not be made for several weeks. There had been serious doubts over the future of the Budapest bid, after a petition to force a national referendum attracted over 250,000 signatures.

Budapest Mayor István Tarlós has a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to review the city’s bid, after the national youth organisation Momentum Mozgalom claimed it had fulfilled the requirements to force a city-wide referendum.

Despite the political unrest regarding the bid, there is still thought to be significant support for Budapest 2024 amongst the Hungarian population and the bid could yet regain momentum in the coming weeks. Key personnel remain optimistic about the prospect of Budapest remaining in the race.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is said to be surprised at the developments in Budapest, with the referendum generating almost twice the minimum support required to force a vote.

UK broadcaster ITV has extended a rights deal with World Rugby, the global governing body for Rugby Union.

The exclusive agreement covers the World Cups in 2019 and 2023, the 2017 Women’s World Cup and the World Rugby U20 Championship between 2017 and 2019.

ITV has broadcast coverage of the Rugby World Cup in the UK since 1991. The 2015 edition featured peak audiences of 11.5m during England matches.

The carriage dispute between Sky and Discovery Communications continues, after the broadcaster claimed the US company’s financial demands are ”completely unrealistic”.

Discovery, the parent company for international sports broadcaster Eurosport, has threatened to pull its channels from Sky’s portfolio in Britain and Germany, after negotiations over a new deal failed to produce an outcome.

Discovery have said its channels could be removed from Sky by January 31 if an outcome is not reached, with the company launching a #KeepDiscovery  campaign in order to highlight the issue. The US company, Sky revealed, ”asked the Sky group to pay close to £1bn for their portfolio of channels”, which is reportedly substantially more than Sky are willing to pay.

In Germany, Discovery will exclusively host the Olympic Games from 2018 and also has Bundesliga football rights; while Eurosport in the UK holds rights to two of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

The President of the International Paralympic Committee has revealed that Russia may be still banned for next year’s Winter Paralympics.

Sir Philip Craven said he was unsure of Russian involvement in the 2018 Games in Korea, after the Sochi 2014 edition was ”tarnished” by allegations of Russian doping.

Russian athletes were handed a ban from all Paralympic competition in the wake of the initial McLaren report, which alleged of a sytematic doping program within Russian athletics.

Russia won 30 of the 72 Gold Medals available at the 2014 Games in Sochi.

FC Barcelona have announced that the planned redevelopment of their home stadium Camp Nou is facing delays of at least a year.

Work on the development was due to begin this year, but will now be postponed until summer 2018 at the earliest.

The redevelopment will cost around $440m to complete, with the project first approved in 2014 following a referendum involving the club’s members.

The Camp Nou originally opened in 1957 and has a capacity of almost 99,000. The new structure will be able to house around 6,000 extra fans.

Manor Racing have been boosted by news that their administrator FRP Advisory  have been able to pay staff their January wages.

The team’s operating company, Just Racing, went into administration on January 6, but the decision to keep staff employed throughout January means Manor has an extra week to find potential buyers.

Around 100 people are still employed by Manor at their base in Oxfordshire, attempting to construct a car for the 2017 campaign. Manor finished bottom of the 2016 Constructors’ Championship.

Manor, it has been revealed, have twice come close to securing new owners; with administrators still discussing with interested parties.

Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather has offered Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champion Conor McGregor $15m to face him in a crossover bout.

Former five-weight World Champion boxer Mayweather retired unbeaten in 2015, while McGregor – who obtained a professional boxing license in November 2016 – has lost just one UFC bout since joining the corporation in 2013.

Mayweather has stated he wants ‘a guaranteed $100m’ to fight McGregor, and has offered to pay the UFC fighter $15m, plus a back-end percentage, to make the meeting happen.

McGregor’s UFC contract means that the company would have to agree to or co-promote any potential fight between their fighter and Mayweather.