Latin American lawyers will speak alongside sports lawyers from South Africa and Europe on third-party ownership of players at ‘The Global Game: Ownership of Football Clubs & Players', a World Sports Law Report event, sponsored by sports law specialist Clintons, on 25 September at the Selfridge Hotel in London. Such ownership contracts are commonplace in Latin America, but have caused widespread Click to continue reading...

LG Electronics, South Korea's second-largest electronics maker, is promoting an aggressive premier marketing campaign from mobile phones to LCD TVs in Europe in a way to intensify its brand image. "Sports marketing seems another must-win card for LG to raise its brand recognition in European markets," observed Kim Yoo-chul in The Korean Times. In July, the company signed a three-year shirt Click to continue reading...

The English Football Association will introduce itsnew agents regulations on Saturday despite protests from the Association of Football Agents that player's agents still hadn't been properly consulted. "It's extraordinary that the FA intend to hold a press briefing to explain their new regulations this week when they have made such little effort to consult the agents concerned. Click to continue reading...

Sanjeevan Balasingham has been appointed as General Secretary of FIFPro Asia. His background in football is extensive and was the Director of Legal Services of the Asian Football Confederation and has been a leading executive with the AFC for 7 years. He will work closely with Brendan Schwab, Chairman of FIFPro Asia and will be based in the Professional Footballers Association office in Melbourne Click to continue reading...

Steve Gibson, Chairman of English Premier League club Middlesborough has explained the relationship of his club's match-day gate income with payments to players. Very little, it seems. Referring to the salaray request by the club's former striker Mark Viduka, Gibson claimed the player's agent had said Viduka would go to the highest bidder. "Mark Viduka is 32 on his next birthday and he was asking Click to continue reading...

Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung has assured David Sullivan, his fellow major shareholder of English Premier League club Birmingham City that he is confident of soon buying full control of the club. Sullivan had publicly expressed concern that the club's stability would suffer if a deal wasn't concluded by the end of September. "I don't know enough about the Chinese psychology. Click to continue reading...

The United States military reportedly issued a statement regreting it had handed out soccer balls emblazoned with the name of Allah as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan. At least one of the balls - which were dropped by helicopter to children in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan - carried a small picture of the Saudi Arabian flag. Click to continue reading...

Football Federation Australia's Anti-Doping Tribunal has handed down a decision in the matter of Stan Lazaridis. The Tribunal held that an Anti-Doping violation had occurred and ordered the player ineligible to play for 12 months, backdated to the date of his positive test on 27 November 2006. The decision was handed down on 6 August 2007 but in accordance with the FFA Anti-Doping By-law could Click to continue reading...

Afshin Ghotbi recently left his position as South Korean assistant coach to take over Iranian club Persepolis. Born in Iran, the 43 year-old left his homeland for America in 1977 and went to the 1998 World Cup with the United States and the 2002 and 2006 World Cups with South Korea. He spoke to John Duerden of goal.com (extracts): Practical problems of the 2007 Asian Cup: First of all, you have Click to continue reading...

India's north-east states like Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland have provided many footballers to the senior and junor national teams but do not host a major league football club. However Lajong SS&CC from Meghalaya has come close to achieving promotion to the Division One of the NFL and is looking to develop to generate more interest among fans as well as corporates. Click to continue reading...

India's national football team will train in Dubai for ten days before its first round qualifier match for the 2010 World Cup against Lebanon scheduled for 8 October. The Indian team's camp in Dubai will start on 25 September, a day after Mahindra United play Lebanon's Al Nejmeh in the quarterfinal of the Asian Football Confederation's AFC Cup. Six Mahindra players will join the national squad Click to continue reading...

The sports media landscape in Asia changed dramatically on the weekend of 11-12 August as the English Premier League dropped from the schedules of many of its last remaining major free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasters. Promoters, who'd paid the EPL most of the record £625 million it received from foreign rights for 2007-2010, began to recoup their investment. Click to continue reading...

Myanmar will host the 2007 ASEAN Women's Championship for the first time during 6-15 September. The South East Asian participants are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam in Group A and Myanmar, Laos, Singapore and Thailand in Group B. Click to continue reading...

The Adelaide United Football Club has announced Exact Mining Services as the club's new ‘front of shorts' sponsor for the 2007/08 Australian A-League season for an undisclosed amount. "What Adelaide United has achieved in such a short period of time is a great success story for South Australia's up and coming sporting profile. It is an achievement which we are all proud of at Exact Mining Click to continue reading...

Sports Sciences Club of Lahore won Pakistan's 3rd National Women's Football Championship after beating Afghanistan 1-0 in the final at the Jinnah Stadium. Ace striker Ayesha Akram netted the winner in the 26th minute of the first half to help her team lift the coveted trophy. "The winners gave no chance whatsoever to all out attacks of Afghanistan in the second session and kept their slender lead Click to continue reading...