“We need to take this seriously, of course. If it shows clearly that there is damage, especially for children, we have to be strict.” — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, sayingthe governing body of European soccer will consider a ban on heading in youth soccer if a study it is conducting shows a link between heading […]
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UCL: Defender hat trick sends Paris SG into knockout stage
Frenchman Layvin Kurzawa became the first defender in modern UEFA Champions League history to score a hat trick as Paris Saint-Germain cruised to a 5-0 win over Belgian championAnderlecht to clinch a spot in the knockout stage.
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Floodnight failure costs Turkish club $30,000
UEFA has fined Turkish champion Besiktas $30,000 for the failure of is floodlights during last month’s Champions League game against RB Leipzig. The outage stopped play for 10 minutes, seemingto halt the second-half momentum of the German club, which fell, 2-0.
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Ivan Gazidis appointed to UEFA executive committee
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, formerly MLS Deputy Commissioner through 2008, has been appointed to UEFA’s Executive Committee. Gazidis, who was part of MLS founding team inthe mid-1990s, is one of two ExCo representatives from the European Club Association. Juventus president Andrea Agnelli replaces Bayern Munich chairman Karl-HeinzRummenigge as the ECA’s second ever leader.
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What They're Saying: Aleksander Ceferin
“The wealthiest clubs are only getting richer and the gap between them and the rest is getting bigger. In the future, we will have to take into serious consideration the possibility of limitingclubs’ budgets for players’ wages.” — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin telling Mladina, a weekly magazine based in his native Slovenia, the introduction of […]
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TV: Champions League final averages 3 million viewers
Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final averaged 3,003,000 viewers on Fox and Fox Deportes. The 1,762,000 viewers on Fox were up 5 percent over the 2016 Real Madrid-Atletico Madrid final,and the 1,241,000 viewers on Fox Deportes made it the most-watched Spanish-language cable sports program for the week. Fox has carried the final for all eight years […]
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UEFA president: World Cup hosting rights not up for sale
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin continued his push against an effort to change World Cup hosting rules so China could bid in 2030. He told BBC Sport: “It’s simply time for us[Europe] to host the World Cup in 2030. I cannot say which country will place a bid from Europe, but we cannot just sell the […]