Football

Uefa president Michel Platini has maintained that politics will play a lesser role at Fifa should he be elected as the next leader of world football’s governing body.

Senior executives from Spanish LaLiga football clubs Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao have been announced as the latest additions to the speaker line up for the Leaders Sport Business Summit, which takes place on October 7-8 at Stamford Bridge, home of English Premier League champion Chelsea.

Swiss authorities have approved the extradition to the US of Rafael Esquivel, former president of the Venezuelan Football Association and executive member of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol).

Fifa is considering a new venue and date for an executive committee meeting of football’s world governing body that was originally scheduled for Japan in December.

Men’s personal care brand Gillette has struck a deal for Brazilian football superstar Neymar to become an ambassador of the company in Latin America.

The extradition of former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner to the US to face corruption charges has moved a step closer after Trinidad & Tobago’s Attorney General Faris Al Rawi signed Authority to Proceed documents.

Spanish football clubs have halved their collective tax debts since 2013, according to data released by the CSD National Sports Council and the LFP, the Spanish football league.

Thierry Braillard, France’s Secretary of State for Sport, has called for security measures inside French stadia to be improved ahead of the Uefa Euro 2016 national team tournament in the country after major crowd trouble disrupted a top-tier Ligue 1 football match yesterday (Sunday).

FIFPro, the international footballers’ union, launched legal action today (Friday) against the sport’s global governing body Fifa over the structure of the game’s transfer market.

Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke was put on leave by football’s global governing body “until further notice” yesterday (Thursday) evening after allegations emerged surrounding the sale of World Cup tickets.

Officials from Conmebol and Concacaf, the governing bodies of football in Latin America and North and Central America respectively, have declared that a special edition of the Copa America national team tournament is still set to take place in the US, despite speculation to the contrary.

Manchester United is anticipating record profit levels for the 2015-16 financial year after the impact of missing out on qualifying for the 2014-15 Uefa Champions League was illustrated in the English Premier League football club’s latest annual accounts today (Thursday).

Swiss authorities today (Thursday) approved the extradition of Eugenio Figueredo, a former vice-president of football’s global governing body Fifa, to the US.

Football’s European governing body Uefa has discussed the possibility of creating a third club competition to complement the Champions League and Europa League.

Major League Soccer’s (MLS) new Los Angeles franchise has confirmed the new team will be called Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC).

Anwarul Huq, the general secretary of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), has revealed that his organisation’s members will vote for Michel Platini in the Fifa presidential election.