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The official application portal for the next edition of the award winning FIFA Master is now open. Named by the 2024 SportBusiness global Postgraduate rankings as Europe’s No.1 ranked course for the twelfth time, former course Patrons have included Olympic rowing Gold Medallist Emma Twigg, South African Rugby World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar and FIFA Chief of Global Football Development, Arsène Wenger.

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The 475th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs worldwide whose footballers under contract have the highest aggregate transfer value (including players on loan to other teams). With a squad featuring many young stars bound by long-term contracts, Real Madrid clearly leads the way with the highest aggregate transfer value ever recorded for a football club: €1.728 billion.

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Students selected from around the world to be part of the 25th anniversary edition of the FIFA Master were welcomed by representatives from CIES and the course partner universities during a special opening ceremony held in glorious English summer sunshine at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, on Monday 16th September. 

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The 474th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the top 50 creators of chances in today world football, both in the Europe’s big-5 and in 60 other leagues around the globe, according to an exclusively developed index. The top Portuguese talent João Neves (Paris St-Germain) outranks the iconic Lionel Messi (Inter Miami).

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A record breaking 110 attendees from 8 countries joined the 2024 “Latinoamérica” Study Trip which took place from 3rd to 5th September in Bogotá against the backdrop of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Colombia 2024.

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Fatou Binetou Ba

Current Position: Regional Development Programme Coordinator (RDPC) at FIFA

Year of graduation: 2021 (21^st Edition)

Nationality: Senegalese

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