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Documents appear to show a senior Fifa official and his family were paid millions by a company controlled by a former Qatari football official shortly after the country won its bid for the 2022 World Cup
Ajax signed 17 year old talent Richairo Zivkovic http://www.ajax.nl/Ajax-TV/195799/Zivkovic-Ajax's next top scorer? The newspapers report that Ajax will pay FC Groningen 2.5 million euro.
Romario scores again. The 48 year old former strikers told ESPN: "We can't expect anything from FIFA, not when it is run by a blackmailer by the name of Valcke and a thief called Blatter". http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/news/story?id=1930791
Romario llamó ladrón a Blatter
Revenue for the world’s 20 highest earning clubs reached €5.4bn last season, recording growth of over €400m (8%), according to the 17th edition of the Foot
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-26543802
Sports editor, David Bond, reports on how one of the most successful football teams in the world, FC Barcelona, produces some of the most well known players in the sport.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26548272
Sunderland appoint former Chelsea chief scout Lee Congerton as sporting director, replacing the sacked Roberto De Fanti.
http://www.marca.com/2014/03/12/futbol/futbol_internacional/bundesliga/1394579795.html
Franz Beckenbauer se mostró crítico con el estilo de juego que Pep Guardiola aplica al Bayern Múnich. Al final seremos como el Barcelona. Nadie nos querrá ver. Estos jugadores se pasarían el balón hasta en la línea de gol, dijo el presidente de honor del club alemán después de que eliminase al Arsenal en octavos de la Champions League.
No one seems terribly keen on policing footballâs Wild West. The responsibility for the governance of agents has been Fifaâs job in recent years but the world governing body is scrapping its licensing system and it is against the backdrop of uncertainty about how things might now work, that the Football Association has announced it will stage an examination next month for those who aspire to be in the profession.
The Goal Rich List 2014 detailed the scale of the wealth of the world's top players but it is a very different reality for the vast majority lower down the chain