IN THIS ISSUE

FIFA President and General Secretary Meeting for 18th Edition FIFA Master Class

Conference by Prof. Eric Hoesli: “2018: A pivotal year for Russia?”

Loyal players: Gianluigi Buffon tops the list

Two members of the FIFA/CIES University Network appointed as General Coordinators for the FIFA World Cup

The lakes and mountains of Switzerland welcome 18th edition FIFA Master Class

New Monthly Report highlights the importance of squad stability

Football and Community: Four FIFA/CIES Executive Programme alumni implement their Final Project in Costa Rica

FIFA Master Alumni – Where are they now? Martin Kaswurm

OTHER NEWS

Top potential transfer benefits: Kane ahead of Messi

Report on the recent Round Table: "Football: An instrument in the fight against racism?"

New Monthly Report: youth training helps team to win 

Contract policy: Spanish giants head the table

Best big-5 league players for the last three months

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 59, March 2018

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Picture: FIFA Master 18th Edition at the Home of FIFA

Each year, the FIFA Master class has the opportunity to visit the Home of FIFA in Zurich for what is one of the most important field visits of the academic year. Indeed, this is a key moment in the life of each edition, as it allows students to attend various talks from senior personnel at one of the most important international sporting federations in the world.

For the current 18th edition FIFA Master class, Friday 6th April 2018 is a date they will remember for a very long time as they had the immense pleasure and honour to be welcomed by both FIFA President Gianni Infantino and General Secretary Fatma Samoura.

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Born in 1957, Eric Hoesli is a Suisse journalist, and specialist of Russia. A former editor-in-chief of the “l’Hebdo”, he creates the journal “Le temps” in 1997, of which he was chief editor from 1998 until 2004. After having occupied different management positions within the groups of Edipresse and later on Tamedia, he was named in 2014 Professor at the EPFL and at the University of Geneva. He is also the author of the books “À la conquête du Caucase” (2006) and “L’épopée sibérienne” (2018), as well as a large number of articles dedicated to the ex-USSR and to the Russian world.

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Gianluigi Buffon heads the table for the big-5 league players who have been for the longest period in their club employment. The legendary Italian goalkeeper already played for 17 seasons at Juventus. This is sixth months more than the second ranked footballer, Sergio Pellissier (Chievo), and one year more than for Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) and Roman Weidenfeller (Borussia Dortmund). The top 110 list is available in issue number 223 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post.

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Picture: General Coordinators for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

We were delighted to hear that Michael Boys and Luis Castro, two members of the FIFA/CIES University Network, have been appointed as General Coordinators for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Michael Boys, who is CIES coordinator in Chile and head of the event management module for the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme organised by Universidad Santo Tomás, will be responsible for the matches organised in Saint Petersburg. In addition, Luis Castro, who is an alumnus from the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme in Argentina and head of the event management module at Universidad Católica Argentina, will work in Ekaterinburg. 

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Picture: FIFA Master 18th Edition at Inter Milan  

Time flies when you’re having fun and completing an intense management module at SDA Bocconi University! Our time in Milan ended with completing exams, a final sport event project, and great speakers from the Euroleague, NBA, Inter Milan, Biathlon Federation and playing a match against Javier Zanetti at the Inter Campus.

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The first CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report published in January 2015 studied club stability across Europe. Three years later, the thirty-fourth edition develops this issue by illustrating the value of long-term planning for football clubs. The indicator selected is the percentage of players recruited by their employer club since less than one year.

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Picture: Children of the “My Soccer Dreams” project

Ricardo Contreras Ulloa, Marvin Ramírez Carballo, Pablo Salazar Salas and Gustavo Moreno Sánchez, four alumni from the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme organised in partnership with Universidad de Costa Rica (class of 2016), decided to put theory into practice. Their group project “My Soccer Dreams”, aimed at serving the local community, is now a reality.

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Picture: Martin Kaswurm at the Snow Volleyball Exhibition at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang

Current Position: Founder & CEO, Chaka2

Year of graduation: 2014 (14th Edition)

Nationality: Austrian

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