IN THIS ISSUE

“The last penalty of Yugoslavia”. Join us on the 6th of April in Neuchâtel for our next event!

New Monthly Report: strategic analysis of a professional league

March "FIFA MASTER" class update from SDA Bocconi

Best players per area of the game

Margarita Echeverría appointed as Secretary General of the Costa Rican Football Federation

OTHER NEWS

Senegal: Alumnus from UCAD now active at continental level

Champions League training clubs: from Barcelona to Manchester City

Most loyal players: Totti, Terry and Buffon

Interview with Zonwabele Hlulani - A South African alumnus serving his local community

Squad turnover during the last five years: from Genoa to Bayern

AND MORE

CIES social media pages and links

CIES Highlights No 47, February 2017

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Picture: The last penalty taken by Yugoslavia on 30th June 1990, in Florence.

Would Yugoslavia’s fate have been different, and its unity preserved if Faruk Hadzibegic, a Bosnian from Sarajevo, had scored his decisive penalty in the quarter finals of the Football World Cup against Maradona’s Argentina on 30th June 1990 in Florence?

To answer this question, the CIES, in collaboration with the Museum of Art and History of Neuchâtel, has organized within the series of events called ‘Printemps Culturel 2017: « Carrefour Sarajevo »’ an outstanding evening based on the book “The last penalty of Yugoslavia”.

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The studies carried out since 2005 by the CIES Football Observatory are not only geared towards the general public, but are also useful to actors in the game. The 23rd Monthly Report illustrates an approach that allows a professional football league to analyse on an objective basis its international positioning and influence in a positive way the strategic choices of the clubs that compose it.

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Picture: “FIFA Master” 17th edition students at Juventus FC

They say timing is everything, and the February module on Sport Marketing and Strategic Management was right on time with the rebrand of Juventus Football Club. We had the opportunity to visit Juve’s new stadium, one of only three team owned stadiums in Serie A.

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Issue number 179 of the Weekly Post presents the best performing big-5 league players in the six areas of the game that make up the exclusive CIES Football Observatory approach for the technical analysis of performance. The data refers to the last 1,000 minutes played by each player in domestic league matches. Only footballers fielded for at least 360 minutes since January 1st are included.

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Picture: Margarita Echeverría, Secretary-General of the Costa Rican Football Federation

After holding the office on an interim basis, Margarita Echeverría, who is the coordinator of the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme in Sports Management organised in cooperation with Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), was appointed as the Secretary-General of the Costa Rican Football Federation (FCF) at the beginning of the year.

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