IN THIS ISSUE

Brand new Demographic Study available

Development of CIES legal services

Internationally recognised speakers at IUN

FIFA Master 13th edition : impressions from Milan

Interview of Tim Goethals, FIFA Master Alumni Association President

OTHER NEWS

The International Centre for Sports Studies will host International Sports Conference on July 18th 2013

Workshop: Inequality and integration in sport, 26-28 June 2013, Bern (Switzerland)

Why not recruit one of our FIFA Master postgraduates?

AND MORE

CIES social media pages and links

CIES Highlights No 2, Decembre 2012

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Demographic Study 2013

The CIES Football Observatory have published its annual Demographic Study. Exclusive data contained in the 2013 edition reveals that expatriate presence has reached a new record high in Europe.

As Dr Raffaele Poli, head of the CIES Football Observatory, explains, "the percentage of players imported from abroad at European level has never been as high as in the current season. Of the top 31 division leagues of UEFA member associations we surveyed, 36.1% of all squad members grew up in a different national association to that of their employer club".

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Pierre Cornu, CIES Senior Legal Counsel

CIES continues to develop its legal services, in particular in the fields of association law (statutes, regulations, organisation and governance of sport associations), disciplinary law, sport betting and manipulation of competitions.

With the hiring of Pierre Cornu, CIES has further increased its legal capabilities and expertise. Master of law in 1983 (University of Neuchâtel / Switzerland), Pierre Cornu passed the bar exam two years later, after a time of practice in a law office. He then worked as an attorney, and became investigating judge in 1987. Elected as the general prosecutor of the canton of Neuchâtel in 1997, he presided over the Swiss Association of Prosecutors and also worked as an expert in Council of Europe projects, in particular about judges’ and prosecutors’ ethics and deontology.

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Jair Bertoni, FIFA Master alumni and Head of Cabinet at European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) and students from the 5th edition of the FIFA/CIES Programme in Sports Management (Cairo)

In accordance with its core mission, CIES is proposing two to three conferences in the context of each FIFA/CIES Programme in sport management organised by our academic partners. Their goal is to give an international "flavour" to the courses focusing chiefly on local and regional needs and realities. These conferences also encourage an exchange of experiences and expose students to new and practical concepts that can enrich and further professionalize sport management at the national level.

The list of speakers selected from the International University Network currently comprises around 50 professors and experts in fields closely related to those of the programme syllabus (law, marketing, communication, event management, strategic planning, etc.). These lecturers represent diverse sports entities (FIFA, IOC, CAS, EPFL, etc.), or enterprises specialising in the domain of sports. With a view to expanding our students' horizons, CIES also wishes to actively involve participants from sectors other than management per se (sport and handicap, history, development through sport, sport and racism, sport and violence, etc.).

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FIFA Master Class 13th edition at Vero Volley, in Milano

The FIFA Master Management module at SDA Bocconi is organized with 5 sub-modules (Sport Finance; Sport Leadership and Organisation; Sport Marketing; Sport Strategic Planning; Sport Event Management) and is taught by the faculty and a series of guest speakers. Field visits complement the process of delivering a unique learning experience to the students. 

Despite the cold, the first visit for the FIFA Master participants was to attend a class visit to San Siro Stadium on the 15th of January.

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Tim Goethals, Head of Projects at ASOIF (the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations) and FIFA Master Alumni Association President

Can you first tell us about yourself and your career path?

Originally from Belgium, I’m 37 years old. I’m living in Neuchatel with my wife Agnès and 2 children (Auriane (5) and Romain (11)).

I studied Business and Economics and started working in Finance at Ernst & Young Consulting in Brussels, where I worked a few years on different financial projects in different industries.  Always wanting to work in sports, I decided to stop my career in finance and applied for the FIFA Masters in 2005 (fifth edition).

What links do you have with the sport world?

I have been playing tennis since I was 9 years old, and I have always been very active in my club as a committee member. I always enjoyed the mix of being “on” the court as well as “off” the court and get involved on the organization side.

I have also been captain of my interclub team.  Funnily enough, since I’m working in sports I have less time to play – I am now always turning down requests to play - although I have some nice colleagues within the Sports Movement who are not (yet!) giving up asking me to play from time to time.

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