CIES News
New Monthly Report highlights the importance of squad stability
The first CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report published in studied club stability across Europe. Three years later, the thirty-fourth edition…
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FIFA Master Alumni – Where are they now? Martin Kaswurm
Pictured from left to right at the Snow Volleyball Exhibition at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang
Back Row: Karl Stoss, IOC Member & President of…
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The lakes and mountains of Switzerland welcome 18th edition FIFA Master Class
Time flies when you’re having fun and completing an intense management module at SDA Bocconi University! Our time in Milan ended with completing…
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Contract policy: Spanish giants head the table
Barcelona and Real Madrid top the rankings for the longest average contract duration of first team squad members. Six out of the eight top ranked…
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Two members of the FIFA/CIES University Network appointed as General Coordinators for the FIFA World Cup
We were delighted to hear that Michael Boys and Luis Castro, two members of the FIFA/CIES University Network, have been appointed as General…
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Competitive balance: general decline in Europe
Issue number 221 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post analyses the percentage of matches with a gap of three or more goals in 29 European…
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Report on the recent Round Table: "Football: An instrument in the fight against racism?"
The event held on 22nd March, and which was organised by the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) in collaboration with the Department of…
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Best big-5 league players for the last three months
The 220th issue of the Weekly Post presents players from the big-5 who performed the best in domestic league matches during the last three months.…
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Football and Community: Four FIFA/CIES Executive Programme alumni implement their Final Project in Costa Rica
Ricardo Contreras Ulloa, Marvin Ramírez Carballo, Pablo Salazar Salas and Gustavo Moreno Sánchez, four alumni from the FIFA/CIES Executive Programme…
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