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By  AYOADE JAMIU   • Professor Jiri Dvorak says he has not received any explanation after 22 years of work • Other senior FIFA officials have been expelled when examining issues related to Russia The former chief medical officer of Fifa was investigating the supposed doping of Russian state soccer players when his work was abruptly interrupted under the presidency of Gianni Infantino last November. Professor Jiri Dvorak, a leading physician and consultant neurologist who worked in the medical, anti-doping and injury prevention programs of Fifa for 22 years, complained that he had not received any notification or explanation when the governing body of the World Game of He suddenly finished his job. The end of Dvorak and his work, which he combined with the chairmanship of the department of neurology at the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich, were some of the many games of FIFA staff after the election of Infantino last February to succeed Sepp. Blatter This expulsion of ...

By  AYOADE JAMIU • Team England nominates 75 men and field teams for the 2018 event in Australia • Adam Gemili and Katarina Johnson-Thompson among the contenders for the medal Greg Rutherford, Olympic long jump champion in London in 2012, and British sprint holder Dina Asher-Smith were named in an English men's 75-man athletics team for next year's Commonwealth Games in Australia. The athletic team will be the largest group of 650 members of the Gold Coast English team, which will include 400 athletes and 250 support staff in 18 sports, making it the largest team to represent the world. England at an international sporting event. Most of them will start flying to Brisbane training camp in mid-March to give them more than 15 days of acclimatization before the Games start on April 4. England will try to defend their position against Australia at the top of the medal table. A spokesman for the England team would not be attracted by the cost of the trip, but...

Athletes who started playing tackle football before age 12 had more behavioral and cognitive problems in the future than those who started playing after age 12, according to a new study published on Tuesday. The results, from a long-term study by researchers at Boston University, are likely to fuel the debate over when children should start playing football. The results of the study by researchers at Boston University, published in the journal Nature's Translational Psychiatry, were based on a sample of 214 former players, aged 51 on average. Of these, 43 played in high school, 103 the remaining 68 played in the NFL In telephone interviews and online surveys, the researchers found that players in all three groups participating in youth soccer before the age of 12 had a double risk of problems with behavior regulation, apathy and executive function. a triple risk of depression scores. " "The brain is going through this incredible period of growth bet...

It seems obvious that there will be more, and more serious, injuries among high school and college athletes in football or soccer or lacrosse than, say, in running or in tennis. But how much more and at what economic cost? The Yale researchers discovered that these numbers were difficult to obtain, but using the best available data, they calculated that if contact sports could be practiced without contact, such as flag football, for example, there would be 49,600 fewer injuries among men. university athletes per year and 601,900 less among male high school athletes. The savings, which include estimates of medical costs and lost time, could reach $ 1.5 billion a year for colleges and $ 19.2 billion a year for high schools. And that only takes into account the immediate consequences of an injury, according to an article by the researchers, and not the long-term effects of concussions or repeated bursts of the brain in collisions. Or the repercussions of ligament tears, which ...

The owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, "said with his lord, as it is in the extension of the NFL Roger Goodell, but that he does not come from contract with an Ezequiel to the commissioner was E. Elliott in the suspension of the six parties of the alleged domestic violence. Jones said on his radio show on Friday that he wants the 32 owners to have the opportunity to approve the agreement negotiated between Goodell and the compensation committee that includes six owners. Jones is not on the committee. The NFL said the owners have already voted unanimously to extend the Goodell contract and allow the committee to close the deal. Jones said the circumstances have changed since the May vote, including escalating protests against the social injustice that has affected the national anthem. Jones also said that "behavior policies" have been a problem since May. Goodell suspended Elliott in August. Jones, who was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of ...

Swiss lawyer general likewise opens procedures against Jérôme Valcke  Investigation identifies with World Cup media rights for 2026 and 2030 The director of high-spending Paris Saint-Germain and the capable games supporter beIN, both possessed by Qatar state reserves, has been blamed in Switzerland for criminally fixing the previous Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke to purchase TV rights to World Cup competitions. Nasser al-Khelaifi, a standout amongst the most capable figures in European and world football due to PSG's and beIN's Qatari support and Fifa's questionable vote in favor of Qatar to have the 2022 World Cup, was named as the subject of a criminal continuing by the Swiss lawyer general's office (OAG) on Thursday. In a declaration that uncovered another measurement to the defilement outrages and criminal examinations that have inundated football's reality administering body since 2015, Khelaifi was blamed for renumerating Valcke regarding the hon...

• Power battle at Arsenal heightens as American hopes to purchase out opponent  • Fans fear move would set Kroenke in place to crush out investors Arsenal’s greater part investor, Stan Kroenke, has offered practically £525m to purchase out Alisher Usmanov, the second-biggest investor who has attempted a few times to wrest control of the club. Just last May the American opposed Usmanov's most recent endeavor at a takeover, and inside the recent weeks this moderate consuming battle for full control took a curve as Kroenke offered £28,000 per share for the Russian's stake. Kroenke possesses 67% of Arsenal; Usmanov has a 30.4% stake. The rest of the offers have a place with minority investors, a considerable lot of whom have saved a little holding for quite a long time, notwithstanding going down the ages. Having two principle financial specialists who don't have a working relationship, in spite of having been on the scene for as far back as 10 years and who seem to ho...

The Nigeria’s first indigenous cable television network, TSTV Africa has debunked rumors making rounds on social media alleging cabals who have stake in DSTV are frustrating the October 1st launch date. In a post made by TSTV Africa on their official Facebook page, the cable network wrote “2 days to go, October 1st”, reassuring Nigerians that indeed TSTV is coming as advertised. And when asked by a Facebook user that: “There are rumors making the rounds that TSTV have not obtain the NCC license and that politicians and other stake holders in DSTV are frustrating the efforts of TSTV to launch in Oct 1st ……”, TSTV Replied that: “TSTV Africa has all the legal rights/documents and infrastructures to commence operation in Nigeria. Please disregard rumors”. Nigerians has been in anticipation since TSTV made an announcement that they will be launching on Independence Day with interesting packages such as pay-per-view with 100 channels including 12 sports channels for all the footbal...