IN THIS ISSUE

Round table: "Football: An instrument in the fight against racism?"

Basketball Champions League featured in latest edition of International Basketball Migration Report issued by CIES and FIBA

Transfer value trends: highest increase for Salah

“Pass it on – Hope through football” – FIFA Conference for Equality and Inclusion

"Grazie Mille, Milano!"

Most dominant teams in Europe: Porto at the top

FIFA/CIES Executive Programme: an alumna is now working for Egyptian football

FIFA Master Alumni – Where are they now? Namrata Chatterjee

OTHER NEWS

Best dribblers: Hazard ahead of Neymar and Messi

Costa Rica: 10th Anniversary of the UCR/CIES partnership

Peru: an alumnus of the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme plays for the national football team

AND MORE

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

Vidéos - Why you should choose the FIFA Master?

CIES Highlights No 58, February 2018

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In an attempt to answer this question of fundamental importance for contemporary football, an exceptional round table will be organized on 22 March 2018 in Neuchâtel by the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), in collaboration with the Department of Multicultural Cohesion and the Forum ‘All different all equal’. This event is part of the Neuchâtel Action Week against Racism, which runs from 18th to 30th March 2018.

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MIES/NEUCHATEL - The International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) and FIBA have come together to produce the sixth edition of the International Basketball Migration Report (IBMR), a seasonal insight into the migratory trends/tendencies of the sport.

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Issue number 218 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post highlights big-5 league players whose transfer value has increased the most during the last six months. Only footballers who did not change team or extend their contract are included in the rankings. In the top positions are three English Premier League players: Mohammed Salah (+€74.7M), Ederson Moraes (+€74.4M) and Leroy Sané (+€63.0M).

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Pictured from left to right at the conference are: Sarah Crumbach (10th Edition), Solomon Mudege (10th Edition) and Honey Thaljieh (12th Edition).

This month, FIFA held its fourth Conference for Equality and Inclusion at its headquarters in Zurich. The CIES and FIFA Master Alumni community have particularly strong links with this important event as the founder and project lead for the Conference is FIFA Master 12th edition graduate, Honey Thaljieh.

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Picture: FIFA Master 18th Edition in Milano, Italy

Well, the “Siberian Winter” has finally landed in Milan and the chilling wind and snow reminds us of our last weeks in Leicester, but keeps us looking forward to the first hints of spring. The Milan module of the FIFA Master course has kept us extremely busy with interesting group projects and intriguing lectures from our professors and guest lecturers.

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The CIES Football Observatory has partnered with the leading football data company InStat to analyse the performance of teams across Europe. Issue number 217 of the Weekly Post lists the 100 clubs from 31 competitions with the best ratios between shots taken and conceded from the box during the current domestic league season. Porto ranks first ahead of Ludogorets and Crvena Zvezda.

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Picture: Safia Abdel Dayem, second row, second from the right

Safia Abdel Dayem, an alumna of the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme in Sports Management organised with Cairo University (CU) and also a graduate from the FIFA Master (14th Edition), has just been appointed to the Board of the Cairo Section of the Egyptian Football Federation.

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Picture: Namrata Chatterjee

Current Position: Legal Counsel, Asian Football Confederation

Year of graduation: 2016 (16th Edition)

Nationality: Indian 

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