IN THIS ISSUE

Next 90 programme kicks off with 35 ex-internationals

Colombia: Launch of the 1st FIFA/CIES International Programme in Sports Management

First ever world demographic study released

Net transfer spending over last ten seasons

Duomo, Dinner parties and Deadlines: FIFA Master 22nd edition arrives in Milan

International Monthly Review #30 - January 2022

FIFA Master Alumni - Where are they now? - Pierre Ducrey

OTHER NEWS

CIES webinars: Let’s Connect and Think Together

Sixteen Projects Selected for the FIFA/CIES International University Network Award 2022

FIFA Master Alumni - Where are they now? - Safia Abdeldayem

Next big-5 league stars

FIFA Master Alumni - Where are they now? - Tang Xigang

Game Openness Index: Dutch Eredivisie at the top

AND MORE

Interviews - Where are they now? Meet some of our alumni and discover their career path after graduation 

Videos - Learn more about CIES by subscribing to our YouTube channel

CIES Highlights No 105, January 2022

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The 35 participants in The Next 90 educational programme gathered on Tuesday for the first online session in a course that will run for the next ten months.

The programme began with a welcome speech from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. “Thank you for being here with us, for embracing this project, and for taking part in such an exciting adventure: The Next 90,” the FIFA President began by saying to the participants.

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At a ceremony held on 16 February in Bogotá, Universidad Sergio Arboleda (USA), the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF) and the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) officially announced the launch of the first edition of the FIFA/CIES International Programme in Sports Management in Colombia.

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For the first time, the CIES Football Observatory research team has compiled a study comparing from a demographic perspective the five major European leagues with ten additional competitions located in three other continents: America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, United States and Canada), Asia (South Korea, Japan, China), as well as Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). All the data is available for free in the 71st edition of the Monthly Report.

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Issue number 367 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks current big-5 league clubs according to their net spending on transfer operations concluded over the last ten seasons. Manchester United tops the table with a negative balance of more than one billion euro, ahead of Manchester City and Paris St-Germain. Fourteen English clubs are in the top 20 of clubs with the most negative net transfer spending.

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It was only after the first parachute flare went off that the FIFA Master 22nd Edition cohort’s introduction to Italian football was complete. Already in the midst of the cacophonous cauldron of clamour and convulsion served up by a largely red-and-black San Siro, Milan’s chilly early January air was shattered completely by the bombastic pyrotechnic display put on by the visiting AS Roma faithful.

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Pierre Ducrey

Current Position: Olympic Games Operations Director at the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Year of graduation: 2003 (3rd edition)

Nationality: Swiss

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