Ouch. Excellent piece on the future of football at WSC.

If you think it's barely possible for our already revenue-obsessed clubs to exploit fans further, then you weren't at FedEx Field just outside Washington DC on Saturday night to watch Barcelona play Man Utd in yet another US summer exhibition.

Chinese real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group, which pulled out of national soccer in 2000 in protest against systematic corruption, has returned to the game at its latest hour of need. A subsidiary of China National United Oil Corp, and backed by assets estimated at 140 billion yuan ($21.7 billion) in commercial properties, luxury hotels, chain stores and tourism, Wanda will take up the

Whooooooo?

Genting is a Malaysian company whose core business is built around casinos and tourism, although they also own property and energy businesses amongst other things. They reportedly own the largest number of casinos in the UK, including the Circus Casinos in Hurst Street and Star City.

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Our newly founded 'Marketing Ploy of the Week' award must go to the Spanish government, who have cleverly utilised their capital's most wondrous sights in a new video to promote tourism. Yes, several Real Madrid players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos and Sami Khedira have been dressed up, blown out, made up and thrown in front of a camera in order to espouse the virtues of their adopted home city.

VANCOUVER, BC Support is building for staging the 2015 women's World Cup of soccer in Vancouver. At a meeting on Feb. 3, city council will vote on a parks board recommendation to endorse the Canadian Soccer Association's bid to bring the big event to Canada. The bid includes Vancouver as one of the six [.

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