Italy

Italian soccer club Lazio has posted a loss of 16.7 billion lire ($8.29 million) in the sixth months to the end of 1999 against a loss of 6.4 billion lire in the same period 1998.

A joint FIFA/UEFA delegation will visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 12 April for discussions related to the role, status and structure of sport within the legal framework of the European Union.

A new internet site catering for event organisers and sponsors, is being launched by S-Comm.

Italian Serie A soccer club AS Roma, which aims to float on the stock market this month, is in talks on a commercial alliance with Italian and foreign telecoms groups, director general Fabrizio Lucchesi has said.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will fight in Helsinki in August against an unnamed opponent.

Purple Interactive, the company behind the unofficial formuala1.com web-site, is to a launch Eurosoccer.com, a major new site for fans of European soccer.

Serie A soccer club Udinese has plans to float on the Milan bourse, according to the soccer industry newsletter The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

InterClubNet Ltd, the communication system provider, has unveiled InterClub, a private and secure communication and information system for football clubs and officially recognised bodies. The system, which is due to launch at the end of May, allows clubs to exchange player transfer information online, as well as providing a forum for other club business such as arranging friendly matches and merchandising agreements.

Just a day after Italian Serie A soccer side AS Roma announced its intention to float on the Milan bourse in April, fellow club Udinese revealed it plans a similar step.

UEFA and FIFA face almost certain disappointment in their efforts to persuade the European Union to reverse some of the most damaging effects of the Bosman ruling, EU officials have warned.

Italian first division soccer club AS Roma will float on the Milan bourse around April 7-10, Roma president Francesco Sensi has confirmed.

ISL Worldwide has signed Orad Hi-Tec Systems to provide Orad's IMadGINE virtual advertising for the Tennis Masters Series TV coverage. This is the first time that Orad will be providing virtual advertising to an ISL premium event.

Italian soccer club Inter Milan is planning to launch its own digital television channel in May.

A regional court has overturned a 1998 ruling by Italy's Antitrust watchdog that a sports rights accord

Sports.com has launched three new country-specific Web sites, providing extensive, local coverage of all relevant sports in Germany, Italy and Spain in each country's language.

Teamtalk.com, the soccer Internet company, is planning to raise #60m ($97m) through a placing of new ordinary shares.