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| Man Utd team up with Azeri telecoms company Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:28 AM PDT
The three-year agreement announced today is one of a number of local sponsorship deals done by United, English champions a record 19 times, who enjoy a large following around the globe. The club's international commercial expansion is a model that rivals are keen to emulate. Bakcell will broadcast the club's MUTV channel in Azerbaijan, while its mobile subscribers will also be offered club news and video highlights. "This new agreement is another first for Manchester United, with it being the only partnership the club has in the country," its commercial director Richard Arnold said. United have 659 million followers around the globe, according to the results of a survey commissioned by the club earlier this year. Around 1.68 million of them were in Azerbaijan, a country of more than 9 million people which is wedged between Russia and Iran on the Caspian Sea. – Reuters |
| Bin Hammam appeals to CAS over provisional ban Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:14 AM PDT
Bin Hammam (picture), who challenged Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency last year, was provisionally suspended by the sport's world governing body on July 26, only one week after CAS had overturned his life ban from football. Bin Hamman's lawyer Eugene Gulland said in a statement that the former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president had filed an appeal with CAS "challenging the provisional suspension ordered by FIFA." In overturning Bin Hammam's life ban in July, CAS said FIFA had provided insufficient evidence over allegations that he tried to bribe Caribbean officials in the run-up to last year's election. However, it said the decision was not "an affirmative finding of innocence" for Bin Hammam, and that the case could be re-opened with new evidence. One week later, FIFA said Bin Hammam would be banned for 90 days while its ethics committee collected further evidence. Bin Hammam was accused of trying to buy the votes of Caribbean officials by handing them US$40,000 (RM122,280) each in brown envelopes at a meeting in Port of Spain one month before the FIFA election. He withdrew his candidacy for the FIFA elections and was subsequently suspended pending an investigation. Blatter was re-elected unopposed for a fourth term as FIFA president, while Bin Hammam was found guilty of breaking seven articles of FIFA's ethics code, including one on bribery. Proceedings against former CONCACAF president Jack Warner, also present at the meeting in Trinidad & Tobago, were dropped after he resigned his post. – Reuters |
LONDON, Oct 15 – English Premier League soccer club Manchester United have signed their first sponsorship deal in a former Soviet country, teaming up with Bakcell, a telecoms company in Azerbaijan.
BERNE, Oct 15 – Former FIFA presidential candidate and executive committee member Mohamed Bin Hammam has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over his provisional ban from soccer, the latest episode in a long-running saga.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Sports To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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