Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . PROFILE: Gianni Infantino          Age: 45. Born: 23 March 1970, in Brig, Switzerland. Twitter: @Gianni_2016          Website: http://www.fifaforward2016.com/ Manifesto (PDF download): Via this link Football background: UEFA 2000-present, currently General Secretary (October 2009-present), previously was secretary general to the International Centre for Sports […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . PROFILE:  Jerome Champagne Age: 57.       Born:  June, 1958, Paris. Twitter: @jchampagne2016           Website:  www.jeromechampagne2015.com Manifesto (PDF download):  Jerome C manifesto Football background:  Head of Protocol, France98, 1997-98. Worked at FIFA from 1999-2010 as Adviser to Blatter, Deputy-Secretary General […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . PROFILE: David Nakhid        Age: 51.        Born: 15 May 1964, in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Twitter: @DavidNakhidIFA Website: http://www.davidnakhid.com Manifesto: Not available yet. Football background: A midfielder, Nakhid’s was the first player from Trinidad & […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . PROFILE: Prince Ali bin Hussein           Age: 40. Born: 23 December 1975, in Ammam, Jordan. Twitter: @AliBinAlHussein          Website: http://www.worldsgame.com        Manifesto (PDF download): Prince Ali 2016 Manifesto; Prince Ali 2015 manifesto Football background: Head of the Jordanian FA […]

Welcome to the home page of Sportingintelligence‘s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election. JAMES CORBETT explains the rationale for it below. The vote is scheduled for 26 February and as it approaches this regularly updated guide will be brought to you by seasoned FIFA-watchers, expert observers, reform advocates and multiple contributors including Corbett, Roger Pielke Jnr, […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . This page contains a regularly updated interactive timeline of events (top, most recent major event in the election first); a list of recommended people to follow for updates; a list of links to key ‘players’ (including institutions, sponsors, unions and reform […]

By Nick Harris 1 June 2015 The 2015 Women’s World Cup (WWC) kicks off this coming weekend in Canada, and it will be the seventh edition of a tournament that has come a long way in short time. At the first tournament the games were 80 minutes long, there was a single sponsor, the final wasn’t shown […]

By Nick Harris 18 May 2015 International workers’ unions have today joined forces with pressure groups seeking reform of football’s world governing body Fifa to demand that Fifa’s sponsors accept their corporate responsibility and challenge human rights abuses at World Cup 2022 infrastructure construction sites in Qatar. The move comes as reports are published about BBC journalists being arrested while trying […]

. “Our vision is to continue to play a leadership role in charting a better future for this great sport of ours and changing the culture that so damaged it. That means continued leadership on anti-doping.”  Sir Dave Brailsford, 2014  . By Teddy Cutler                       […]

* By Roger Pielke Jr 29 July 2014 Over the weekend, British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg told the Sunday Times that Russia should be stripped of the 2018 World Cup. Clegg joins several senior German politicians in calling for the next World Cup to be moved as a sanction against Russia for its role […]