European clubs will now get a greater say in UEFA’s decision-making as well as extra money from European tournaments under a new accord announced on Tuesday. The move follows up a similar agreement(which included a triple pay-increase) between FIFA and top European clubs about deciding the international calendar.
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Platini Fears Rise of Hooliganism Across Europe
Re-elected UEFA President Michel Platini warned of a return to hooliganism’s “dark days” as he accepted a third term as president of Europe’s governing body forsoccer. The Frenchman warned of a rising trend of “nationalism and extremism” in stadiums around Europe.
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Wolfsburg-Napoli Highlights Europa League Draw
Germany’s hottest non-Bayern Munich team, No. 2 Wolfsburg, squares off against Napoli, currently No. 4 in Italy’s Serie A, in the headlining matchup from the Europa League draw. Theother quarterfinal series are: Sevilla-Zenit St. Petersburg, Dnipro-Club Brugge, and Dynamo Kiev-Fiorentina. Games will be played April 16 and 23.
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Roma Fans Protest Europa League Loss
AS Roma players and staff were subjected to furious protests during and after the 3-0 defeat at home to Fiorentina in the Europa League round of 16 second-leg on Thursday; the second-place Serie Aclub lost the two-game series by a 4-1 aggregate margin. After the game, coach Rudi Garcia said he was “mortified”by the performance […]
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Report: UEFA Investigating Roma, Inter, Liverpool Over FFP
UEFA on Friday said it is investigating AS Roma, Inter Milan Liverpool, AS Monaco, Besiktas, Sporting Lisbon and Krasnodar for a potential breach of its financial fair play rules. According to theAP, these clubs must provide updated accounts until February as part of FFP monitoring. In addition, Europe’s governing body for soccer also opened six […]
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Russia: Racism is a Global, Not Russian, Problem
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko denied that his country has a particular problem with racism in soccer, despite Russian Premier League clubs receiving repeated stadium bans, partialclosures and fines from UEFA for racist incidents involving its fans. For example, Russian champ CSKA Moscow has been forced to play the remainder of its UEFA Champions League […]
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Report: City, PSG Call for FFP Changes
The Manchester Evening News reports that officials from Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain told UEFA on Tuesday that wealthy benefactors should not be penalized for investing heavily intheir clubs under financial fair play (FFP) rules. In a meeting chaired by UEFA President Michel Platini, City CEO Ferran Soriano and PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi stressedtheir belief […]
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Bayern Chief Backs FFP
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who is also acting chairman of the European Club Association, is confident that the Financial Fair Play measures implemented by UEFA are vitalfor the health of the game in Europe — and it’s not just about reining in the spending of clubs with almost limitless resources like Paris Saint-Germain and […]
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Everton's Martinez praises 'magnificent' Howard
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Tim Howard added another mark to his remarkable 2014 season with a record-tying 12 saves in Everton’s4-1 win over Wolfsburg in their Europa League opener, his first game in Europe since the 2009-10 season. Wolfsburg peppered Howard with 24 shots but could not score until the fourth minute of stoppagetime. It took a […]
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FFP Fines to be Split Among UCL Clubs
Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Zenit St. Petersburg’s 20 million pound ($32.5 million) fine for breaching UEFA’s financial fair play rules is to be shared among the otherclubs in the Champions League, PA Sport reports. The three clubs were actually fined much more than that; English champ City, for instance, was fined 50 million pounds […]