By Andrew Warshaw
November 28 – UEFA President Michel Platini’s plan to stage the 2020 European Championship finals across the entire continent is picking up support among national European federations, according to the Germans.
By Duncan Mackay
November 25 – Poland’s successful co-hosting of the UEFA European Championships earlier this year is likely to have a bigger long-term impact on the economy there than Barcelona reaped from staging the 1992 Olympics and Paralympics, it has been claimed.
By Duncan Mackay
November 20 – Markiyan Lubkivsky, the man who helped make this year’ UEFA European Championships so successful, has been handed a new role, it has been announced.
By Duncan Mackay
November 20 – Namibia’s women’s football team have been put forward to represent Africa at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.
By Duncan Mackay
November 20 – FIFA will today revisit the long running case of South Korea’s Park Jong-woo and whether he should receive his Olympic bronze medal following his political protest which sparked a diplomatic row with Japan at London 2012.
By Duncan Mackay
November 19 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter will continue to try to get futsal or beach football on to the Olympic programme, he has promised.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein has called for the abolition of football’s overage player rule for the Olympic Games saying it does nothing to enhance the credibility of the event.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – South African officials are trying to get players contracted to European clubs released early in order to prepare for January’s Africa Cup of Nations.
By Duncan Mackay
November 2 – UEFA has drawn up detailed proposals for Michel Platini’s radical idea to spread the 2020 European Championship finals across Europe – and will present the unprecedented blueprint to its top brass next month, insideworldfootball understands.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – The President of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, has reassured UEFA that all stadiums will be ready for the 2016 European Championship.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – Turkey is using this month’s Soccerex convention in Rio de Janeiro to further press its claims to stage the 2020 UEFA European Championship finals despite Istanbul’s plan to host the Olympics and Paralympics the same year.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 31 – Park Jong-Woo, the South Korean footballer who sparked a diplomatic row with Japan at London 2012 by waving a political placard and was subsequently banned from the medal ceremony, is finally set to receive his Olympic bronze.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 26 – An embarrassing difference of opinion has broken out between two of FIFA’s six Confederations after the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) announced it was staging a special centenary edition of its Copa América in the United States.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 25 – England women’s national football coach Hope Powell says a way must be found to allow a unified Team GB squad to participate in future Olympic Games to help develop the sport.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 25 – A special edition of Copa América will be held by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) in 2016 to celebrate its centenary, with a 16-team tournament in the United States.