Football

Owen Evans asked Jeff Slack, former IMG senior vice-president of football, for a sports marketer’s perspective on working in China and whether the David Beckham factor kick-started football in the country.

China's president, XI Jinping, reportedly keeps a framed picture of himself kicking a football on the wall of his Beijing office.

Fifa has moved to distance itself from controversial comments made by the newly-appointed head of its reform committee stating they are “personal views” and do not reflect the position of world football’s governing body.

Following New York City FC’s first ever game in Major League Soccer (MLS) earlier this year, Frank Dunne caught up with the soccer franchise’s president Tom Glick about his future plans.

Uefa president Michel Platini has said his current term in office will be his final one, should he fail to be elected as head of world football’s governing body next year.

After adidas prised Houston Rockets star, James Harden, away from Nike for $200m last month, we look at whether it was enough to give the German giant the upper hand in its age-old rivalry with the Americans.

Owen Evans looks at how NBC’s billion dollar investment into Premier League rights will take shape over the next six years.

South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) president Juan Angel Napout has cast doubt over whether the United States will retain hosting rights to the planned Copa America Centenario tournament next year.

McDonald’s corporate director of sports marketing in Latin America, David Grinberg, talks about his journey from a sports journalist to the head of sponsorship activation for the 2016 Olympic Games.

South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) treasurer Carlos Chavez has been fired from his role as president of the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) after being hit with corruption charges.

I’ve been working on a football chant based on the fact that the club I support has a better wages-as-a-proportion-of-turnover ratio to that of all of our main rivals. It’s not quite there yet, so I can’t unveil it, but if it catches on there will be more to follow. Themes include match-day income, global media-rights revenue, and profit before player trading and amortisation in the most recent accounting period.

If you live outside of Nigeria it’s likely you will never have heard of Dr. Larry Izamoje.

The Russian Sports Ministry has proposed an increase in the budget for preparations ahead of football’s 2018 Fifa World Cup national team tournament in the country.

Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter has maintained that world football’s governing body is not a corrupt “institution,” adding that he is “clean” amid ongoing criminal investigations into the governance of the sport.

The Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has revealed that authorities in the country have received more than 100 reports of suspicious financial activity in relation to the award of the 2018 and 2022 Fifa football World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund has posted an increase in revenue of more than €15m ($16.5m) for its 2014-15 financial year, despite a difficult season on the pitch, but has seen its net profit drop below a recent trend where this has exceeded €10m.