By Nick Harris 15 September 2010 Read a version of this article in English Facebook istatistiklerine göre dünyanýn en çok hayran kitlesine sahip kulübü 4,5 milyon taraftarý ile Galatasaray. Kulübün Ýþ Geliþtirme Müdürü Ertuð Silay’ýn giriþimleri ve Facebook’taki sayfanýn yöneticilerinden Umut Öfkeli’nin çabalarý önemli. Sportingintelligence olarak kulübün bu baþarýsýndaki önemli pay sahiplerinden kulübün pazarlama ve […]
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REVEALED: Where football passion peaks – Barcelona, Galatasaray, Red Star, Algeria, Colo-Colo
By Nick Harris 14 September 2010 Football is the world’s truly global game but where do passions run highest? Which clubs inspire not just the most support, per se, but the biggest share of the local (domestic) support? According to new research by sportingintelligence, the five football teams with the biggest share of their populations […]
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How Galatasaray became the world’s No1 sports team on Facebook
By Nick Harris 14 September 2010 Read a version of this article in Turkish The most popular sports team in the world at the moment, according to the number of fans on official Facebook sites, is Galatasaray, with almost 4.5m fans. This is thanks in part to the long-term efforts of the club’s business development manager, […]
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The world’s most popular sports team? It’s not the Yankees, Barca, Real, Man Utd, Liverpool or the Lakers. It’s . . . Galatasaray
By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 Take a sample of the world’s population and ask them to nominate their favourite sports team and many experts would expect to find football’s Barcelona or Manchester United, or baseball’s New York Yankees or basketball’s LA Lakers at the top. Yet take a global sample of an enormous magnitude, […]
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‘Believe nothing in Turkish football – it is rotten to the core and nobody will act’
. At the end of the 2010-11 Turkish football season, Fenerbahçe were crowned champions after finishing with the same number of points (82) as title rivals Trabzonspor, but with a better head-to-head record. But Turkish football was soon rocked as it emerged Fenerbahçe’s success was a result of one of the most devastating match-fixing scandals the game […]
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‘Fluke or finance, the title processions in Europe in 2012-13 should be a serious concern’
* EUROPE’S major leagues delivered a string of titles by procession in Spring 2013 as a group of the biggest, richest clubs across the continent romped to runaway victories. Most leagues have always had one or two dominant clubs but is there something else afoot now? And what if anything does that say about the […]
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Since Arsenal last won silverware: 23 ex-Gunners win 56 major trophies … and counting
By Steven Slayford 13 May 2013 In yet another trophy-less season for Arsenal, the biggest prize possible for Arsene Wenger’s team is a top-four finish in the Premier League, with Wigan on Tuesday the next hurdle to clear. Infamously, former Arsenal players who have left the club since Arsenal last won a trophy – the […]
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‘Guardiola’s record is exceptional but whether he is an exceptional manager will only be discovered in the Bundesliga and beyond’
* Pep Guardiola was a serial winner as the coach of Barcelona, making him the most sought-after manager in global football when he took he took a sabbatical from his career at the end of the 2011-12 season. Chelsea were desperate to lure him to Stamford Bridge. Both Manchester clubs and others were reported to […]
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REVEALED: Barcelona No1 for producing players for clubs in Europe’s elite leagues
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 December 2012 Barcelona have produced more footballers currently earning a living as first-team players across Europe’s elite ‘Big 5’ divisions than any other club in the world, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The Spanish giants have been responsible for the development of 38 players at top-flight […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United and Real Madrid top global shirt sale charts
* By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 October 2012 Manchester United and Real Madrid have sold an average of 1.4m official replica shirts globally each year in the past five years – more than any other clubs in the world. The commercial giants of English and Spanish […]
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