IN THIS ISSUE

Grant from the Swiss National Fund

FIFA Master: apply now for the 16th edition!

New “ranking by minute” statistics by CIES Football Observatory

FIFA Master 15th edition field visit at Wimbledon

Abu Dhabi: launch of the first FIFA/CIES Programme in the United Arab Emirates

Portrait of Prof. Richard Holt

OTHER NEWS

Why not recruit one of our FIFA Master postgraduates?

Trinidad and Tobago: Graduation Ceremony

Venezuela: CIES renews its partnership with Universidad Metropolitana

AND MORE

CIES social media pages and links

CIES Highlights No 20, September 2014

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Prof. Dominique Malatesta and Prof. Christophe Jaccoud

Doing "small society" by leisure activity: An ethnography of community life in proximity sports clubs.

As part of a research grant from the Swiss National Fund Division1 Research, The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, School of Social Work & Health Sciences | UAS EESP | Lausanne (Professor Dominique Malatesta) and the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) / University of Neuchâtel (Professor Christophe Jaccoud) will lead a three year research project entitled, “Doing ‘small societies’ by leisure activity: An ethnography of community life in proximity sports clubs.

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On-line application for the FIFA Master 16th edition

CIES has officially opened the application process for the 16th edition (2015-2016) of the FIFA Master on Monday 22nd September 2014.

With over 90% of 380+ FIFA Master graduates working in the sports industry, the impact of the FIFA Master reaches across all continents and nations. Alumni work in organisations as diverse as, but not limited to, the IOC, UEFA, FIFA, Juventus FC, adidas, Asian Football Confederation (AFC), International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), Major League Soccer (MLS), NBA and the Sauber Formula 1 team.

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Big-5 Weekly Post No.84

The CIES Football Observatory is pleased to present innovative statistics on the average number of points achieved by clubs and footballers by minute played.

This brand new indicator is calculated on the basis of the score in matches at the end of every minute of the game. Only footballers who have played at least 50% of championship minutes are included in this analysis.

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15th edition of the FIFA Master at Wimbledon

The world famous All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, was the venue for the first field visit by the 15th edition of the FIFA Master class.

During a busy programme for the day, the 32 international postgraduates had the opportunity to tour the All England Club grounds, learn about the history and evolution of the Wimbledon Championships and also view the iconic No. 1 and Centre Courts. In addition, the day was made particularly memorable thanks to the sight of Great Britain’s Andy Murray practicing on the outside courts.

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Abu Dhabi: opening ceremony

The first edition of the FIFA/CIES Programme in sport management started on 28 September on the campus of Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD), the academic partner of the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) in the United Arab Emirates. Twenty-four students attended the first classes which will continue until June 2015. The Programme benefits from the support of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC).

PSUAD Vice-Chancellor Eric Fouache, Deputy Vice-Chancellors Fatima Al Shamsi and François-Xavier Romanacce as well as ADSC General Secretary H.E. Aref Al Awani were present for the opening ceremony.

“This partnership with CIES is very important to us. It will make it possible to train sports managers taking both national needs and international realities into account. As we are now part of a 16-University network, this partnership also corresponds to our mission of building bridges between civilisations”, rejoiced Eric Fouache.

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Interview of Prof. Richard Holt, Prof. of Sport History at De Montfort University in Leicester and former member of the FIFA Master Scientific Committee

How did you first get involved with the FIFA Master?

Strangely for a historian, I’m not very good at my own history. I can’t really remember exactly how and when I got involved in the FIFA Master but as several students from the first edition recently reminded me: I was there – they remembered! The DMU (De Montfort University in Leicester (England), one of the three partner universities teaching a module of the FIFA Master) module was really begun by Pierre Lanfranchi, whom I’d known from his time at the European University in Florence.

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