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SPORTS works both on and off the field, spawning a multi-billion- dollar global industry that involves players, businesses and governments. Are all winners? SPORTS is no longer just about what goes on in the field, on the courts or at the tracks. Sporting achievements have evolved beyond winning medals or trophies by sportsmen. Away from the heat of battle, a whole host of off-field functionaries - managers, agents, coaches and marketers - are equally at play. Theirs is a less physical but no less intense role in getting companies to part with their money in return for exposure to a multi-billion-dollar market. One need look no further than the recently concluded World Cup football in South Africa to witness the frenzy. The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) earne...
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Staff report It is billed as the highest altitude Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2-star certified soccer field -- on the planet.
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Backed by President [Michelle Bachelet]'s goal to attract major sporting events - and improve the country's infrastructure in the process - Chile won the right to host the 2008 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Under-20 Women's World Cup.
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RIDING on the catchet of global signature events is Datuk Seri Shazalli Ramly's forte, even if it means taking the thunder from rivals. NOT many non-football fans out there remember which local telco held the official tie-up with FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) and with it the marketing rights to the recently concluded World Cup 2010 held in South Africa. What would stick in the memory was the ubiquitous blue bears that `muscled in' on the festivities as if it carried some official status connected with the global football jamboree.
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[Peter Prendergast]'s two assistants, Anthony Garwood of Jamaica and Joseph Taylor of Trinidad and Tobago, will also be returning home from the referees' 2006 FIFA World Cup headquarters, the Kempinski Hotel Gravenbruch in Frankfurt/ Neu-Isenburg. According to Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) website, "in-depth medical examinations have confirmed that the Jamaican (Prendergast) will not be able to take charge of any matches during the 2006 FIFA World Cup".
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THE last one month saw the world being gripped by football fever, culminating in Spain's first ever victory at the World Cup. So, we thought it would be a good time to look at the big money involved in sports sponsorship. For TV rights alone, it has been reported that the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) earned some US$ 2 billion in profits! It is reckoned that easily 80% of global sponsorship today is in sports. How does Malaysia stack up in the sponsorship game? Unlike their counterparts abroad, local corporations dislike disclosing what they spend on sports sponsorship. And that includes big listed entities. News Editor Gurmeet Kaur and Senior Writer Yvonne Chong spoke to industry players to get a finger on the big money splashed locally. We also profile some ...
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Take the winter clothes, leave the soccer balls. She won't need them. Patrick Henry High School freshman and avid soccer player Grace Baldridge will be one of nine FIFA [Federation Internationale de Football Association] Fair Play flag bearers at the U.S.-Slovenia World Cup game this morning in South Africa. Grace and her father, Duke Baldridge, are spending four days in Johannesburg -- a trip valued at about $10,000 -- courtesy of Adidas, the sports apparel company. They then will travel on their own to Cape Town and other South African cities.
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Jason Pelletier has joined an elite group. Now that he has become the state's first soccer official to earn a National Referee Badge (Grade 4), which enables him to work Major League Soccer games as well as international matches, the 1992 Brewer High School graduate has his eyes set on becoming a FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) referee.
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Just as football's governing body, FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) -- that's soccer to Americans -- decided to ban the playing of international matches at more than 8,200 feet (2,500 miles) above sea level, Taos is taking another step closer to bringing soccer fields to town. Taos sits at 6,967 feet above sea level and the members of the Taos Parks and Recreation Board believe Taos can turn that fact into a marketable asset to soccer teams that might want to train at a higher altitude.
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... sharp focus in South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which provided an excellent example of ...A long established organisation, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has ...
