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Egyptian soccer star Salah may quit team if Israeli player joins - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
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Egyptian super-star Mohamed Salah has allegedly threatened to leave Premier League football club Liverpool if Arab-Israeli soccer player Moanes Dabour joins the team, Israeli media reported.

According the report, Salah said that he will leave Liverpool should Dabour be signed.

However, people close to the Egyptian athlete said he needs to be left alone to focus on playing soccer and that he is a professional, and it is not his concern with whom Liverpool is discussing a possible contract.

In the past Salah, refused to shake hands with Israeli players with the pretext of tying his shoes during a game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and FC Basel, his team at the time.

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman tweeted in April, in jest, that he would recruit Salah to the Israeli army after seeing how he led Liverpool to a 5-2 victory over Roma.

Dans Rai al-yom par exemple (▻https://www.raialyoum.com/index.php/%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%a), on rappelle que le joueur en question est un Palestinien de 48 (et par ailleurs bien musulman !!!)

En tout état de cause, LA nouvelle de l’année pour une bonne partie de l’opinion arabe #foot

Africa’s Premier League
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Africa is a Country is excited to present to you, loyal reader, the #Kickstarter campaign for our very first full-length documentary #Film project. It’s called “Africa’s Premier League,” it’s going to be a blast, and we’d love to have you on board. Here’s the lowdown: Africa is obsessed with the #English_Premier_League. The continent […]

#FOOTBALL_IS_A_COUNTRY #SPORTS #Africa's_Premier_League

The 60th issue of the Big-5 Weekly Post analyses the differences in the transfer fees paid by teams to make up their current squad. The data include money spent so far in the winter transfer window. While the expenditure of Premier League teams to sign their current players is 2.7 billion euro, this figure is “only” 849 million in the German Bundesliga.

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At club level, Real Madrid has invested the most to make up its current squad (536 million euro), followed by Manchester City (435) and Manchester United (395). In the remaining leagues, at the top of the tables are Paris St-Germain (366), Bayern Munich (233) and Juventus (214). Ten clubs spent less than 10 million euro to sign their current squad members. The lowest transfer expenditure in England was recorded for Crystal Palace (24 million euro).

For more information on the #CIES #Football_Observatory, please contact us at football.observatory(at)cies.ch. We also kindly remind you that a free excerpt of the freshly published Demographic Study 2014 is available on our website.

▻http://www.cies.ch/en/cies/news/news/article/big-5-weekly-post-on-transfer-fees-n60

#football #transferts #visualisation #carte #argent

Premier League not happy with Rainbow Laces from Stonewall | Queer Landia
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Premier League not happy with Rainbow Laces from Stonewall
Posted on September 23, 2013 by Nathan Simpson
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Robbie Rogers, via his instagram

Last week with the help of Paddy Power, LGBT rights group Stonewall sent rainbow laces to all 92 Premier League clubs, Football League clubs, and the professional clubs in Scotland. Several Premier League clubs including Manchester United, Tottenham and Norwich, aren’t too happy with how Stonewall and Paddy Power rolled out the initiative and have refused to participate.

Manchester United released a statement that read: ”The club supports the League’s central anti-discrimination efforts through Kick It Out. It is a positive move that Stonewall are now speaking to the League directly, rather than working with a commercial provider on a campaign without involving clubs or players at any stage.”

Tottenham echoed MU’s feelings in their own statement: “Whilst the campaign message is positive and one we support, there was unfortunately no prior consultation with ourselves, the Premier League or other clubs. Such consultation would have enabled us to avoid issues in respect of associated third-party commercial entities.

“We have contacted Stonewall directly and let them know that we are supportive and keen to discuss ways in which we can work together going forward. We are committed to working with organisations such as Stonewall and other agencies to eradicate homophobia in football and society.”

The Premier League organisation itself said all teams are welcome to participate if they so choose. A spokesperson from Paddy Power said the launch of the initiative was not mishandled, and the leagues had ample time discuss whether or not to support the campaign. ”The rainbow laces and information were distributed to all clubs last Friday, three days before the launch, to give them a few days to discuss with players about supporting the campaign.”

And while there has been some push back from Premier League clubs, the Daily Mail notes a number of high-profile players have worn the rainbow laces including Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, Newcastle chief Alan Pardew, players Leroy Fer, Phil Jagielka, Aron Gunnarsson and Russell Martin, BT Sport pundit David James.

Nationality maps for football leagues 2013-14

Following Sportingintelligence’s ‘mapping’ of the nationalities of the players in the squads in the Premier League on Saturday (see related article here), the idea has quickly spread and there are maps popping up all over the internet for different leagues, quite a few of them on Reddit.

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▻http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2013/08/12/nationality-maps-for-football-leagues-2013-14-120801

#carte #cartographie #foot #Premier_League #nationalité #joueurs

Al Jazeera Buys Premier League TV Rights In ME » Gulf Business
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Al Jazeera Sport has bought exclusive media rights to English Premier League soccer in the Middle East and North Africa for three years starting from next month, it said in a statement on Monday.

Qatar-based Al Jazeera reached agreement with TV sports rights firm MP & Silva for access to all 380 Premier League matches across media platforms and devices in 23 countries from Iran to Morocco, taking in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

Former Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray will front the English language