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| Malaysia keen on hosting World Cup 2034 with Asean Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST He said the delegates who were present at the Asean Sport Ministers Meeting in Laos in December were in principle agreeable to the proposal but they had to refer to their respective governments before it could be submitted to FIFA. "To me, in principle Malaysia has no problem to make the bid because it is done in the spirit of Asean. "During the meeting, my deputy (Datuk M Saravanan) and the ministry's secretary-general (Datuk Jamil Salleh) had tabled on behalf of Malaysia that we agreed to Asean bidding for the 2034 World Cup and the other delegates also concurred. "But they (Asean nations) have to get the final decision from their respective governments (before submitting the bid to FIFA)," he said. He said this to reporters after attending a thanksgiving ceremony to fete the national contingents which took part in the Myanmar SEA Games and Asean Para Games, at Dewan Komanwel, National Sports Council Complex in Kuala Lumpur tonight. Asean Football Federation (AFF) secretary Datuk Azzuddin Ahmad, prior to this, was reported as saying that AFF had urged the ministry to speed up the bidding process with Asean members to become hosts of the 2034 World Cup. AFF, however, denied that it had done so via a newspaper statement it issued yesterday. – Bernama, January 23, 2014. |
| Manchester United drop out of top three in richest clubs list Posted: 23 Jan 2014 06:45 AM PST Dramatically knocked out of the League Cup on penalties by Premier League strugglers Sunderland in front of a stunned Old Trafford crowd on Wednesday and 14 points adrift of league leaders Arsenal, United fell to fourth in the latest Deloitte Football Money League behind leaders Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich based on income during the 2012/13 season. International financial services firm Deloitte have been compiling the table since 1997 and for the first eight years United were the biggest-earning club in the world. However, they've since been overtaken by Spanish giants Real and Barcelona and now Bayern, following the German club's impressive treble-winning season. Deloitte forecast United, owned by the US-based Glazer family, would reclaim third place from Bayern next year, although a failure to qualify for the lucrative European Champions League could have a damaging effect on the club's long-term finances. "It is the first time Manchester United have dropped out of the top three, but Bayern had an exceptional year," said Dan Jones of Deloitte's sports business group. "Next year United will have the Chevrolet deal, plus other new commercial deals in their figures, and the new Premier League TV deal, so we are confident they will be back in the top three. "The longer term depends in part on what happens on the pitch. If they do not qualify for next season's Champions League, that is probably worth 50 million euros (RM227 million) directly in terms of money from TV and attendances at Old Trafford." This year's table also records the financial rise of Qatari-owned Paris St Germain, who have seen their earnings increase by a remarkable 81%, the French club rising to fifth in the standings ahead of English giants Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal. With Spanish clubs being able to negotiate their own individual, as opposed to collective, television deals, Real Madrid top the Money League for the ninth consecutive year, with total revenue of 518.9m euros (RM2.3 billion), followed by Barcelona with 482.6m euro (RM2.2 billion). Bayern are third with earnings of 431.2m euros (RM1.95 billion), followed by Manchester United with 423.8m euros (RM1.9 billion) and PSG, with 398.8m euros (RM1.8 billion). Manchester City are sixth with 316.2m euros (RM1.4 billion), then Chelsea 303.4m euros (RM1.3 billion) and Arsenal 284.3m euros (RM1.3 billion). Italian sides Juventus (272.4m euros, RM1.2 billion) and AC Milan (263.5m euros, RM1.2 billion) complete a top 10 that no longer includes England's Liverpool, who've slipped to 12th place with revenue of 240.6m euros (RM1.1 billion). - AFP, January 23, 2014. |
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