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CIES Football Observatory big-5 European leagues prediction (season 2013-2014)

The FMA (FIFA Master Alumni Association) 10th anniversary celebration

Venezuela: success for the conference on Top-Level Sport

CIES Football Observatory analysis of the "Mercato 2013

Portrait of Professor Christophe Jaccoud, sport sociologist at CIES

OTHER NEWS

Press review "Mercato 2013"

FIFA Master's international conference

Why not recruit one of our FIFA Master postgraduates?

AND MORE

CIES social media pages and links

CIES Highlights No 8, August 2013

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Big-5 European leagues prediction (season 2013-2014)

For the fourth time, the CIES Football Observatory presents its predictions for the big-5 European leagues. According to our research conclusions the teams with the greatest chance of success this year are Manchester United in England, Real Madrid in Spain, Borussia Dortmund in Germany, Juventus in Italy and Paris St-Germain in France.

Our predictions are based on the analysis of player profile data from the perspective of "experience" (number of matches played and results achieved), "prolificacy" (number of goals scored and level of the competition) and "stability" (number of seasons with the employer club and years remaining on contract).

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FIFA Master Alumni Association 10th anniversary celebration

On 31 August, more than 60 Alumni of the FIFA Master met back in Neuchâtel to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the FMA. The gathering brought together former students from every edition of the programme and coming from all around the world to reflect on the development of the FIFA Master and its Alumni association and to discuss the way forward.

FMA members coming from places such as Mexico, USA, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Brazil and even Japan enjoyed a day which was a mix of social, fun and serious bits.

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Venezuela: conference on top-level sport

The conference organised jointly in Caracas by Gerencia Deportiva Internacional (GDI), the FIFA/CIES Programme sponsor in Venezuela, and CIES on issues related to sports management, met with great success.

More than 170 participants attended the 2nd International Conference on top-level sport organised in the district of the Venezuelan capital. Among them were representatives from the Venezuelan Ministry of Sports, the municipality of Caracas, the National Olympic Committee and Universidad Metropolitana (UNIMET), the academic partner of CIES in Venezuela.

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New record in Big-5 league transfer expenditure

According to the CIES Football Observatory analysis, big-5 league clubs spent over two billion euro for the permanent transfer of first team squad members during the last transfer window. This is the highest figure since 2008 and most probably also in the history of football.

With 719 million euro invested for the permanent transfert of new players, English teams were the most active. It is the highest level ever recorded. A new record high was also measured in France (383 million euro) and Germany (259 million).

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Professor Christophe Jaccoud, sport sociologist at CIES

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

I am from Lausanne and it is in this city that I studied sociology and literature in the 80’s. I already had a connection with Neuchâtel, since I studied ethnology there during one year. My interests, during my studies, were mainly focused on philosophy and literature. However, these subjects were not very developed at this time and I felt the need to study and learn more. That is how I ended up specialising myself in sociology. I would add about this reorientation that I may belong to the last generation which the choice of social sciences correspond with a certain part of critical commitment.

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