By Emre Bilginoglu, Attorney-at-Law, Istanbul, Turkey Enthusiasm for e-sports has demonstrated itself quite palpably in the last few years in financial markets, benefiting all actors in the game, including electronics retailers. The same goes for developing markets. For example, Turkey … Continue reading →

By Emre Bilginoglu, Attorney-at-Law, Istanbul, Turkey The world’s best 32 FIFA players will gather for the FIFA eWorld Cup, an annual tournament organized by FIFA in partnership with EA Sports, which was first launched in 2004. In last year’s edition … Continue reading →

  6 May 2019 Top transfer values for U20 big-5 league players Issue number 261 of the Weekly Post presents the top 50 list of the U20 players from the big-5 with the highest transfer value according to the CIES Football Observatory algorithm. … Continue reading →

By Athena Constantinou, managing director, APC Sports Consulting, Nicosia, Cyprus By all accounts, the dismissal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) of the claim by the  South African 800 metres Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion, Caster Semenya, to … Continue reading →

By Jonathan Copping, Stone King LLP, London, UK England and Manchester City forward, Raheem Sterling, has been honoured at the BT Sport Industry Awards with The Integrity and Impact Award for speaking out on a range of social issues and … Continue reading →

ATHLETICS CAS ARBITRATION: CASTER SEMENYA, ATHLETICS SOUTH AFRICA (ASA) AND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETICS FEDERATIONS (IAAF): DECISION Lausanne, 1 May 2019 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ruled on the requests for arbitration filed by the South … Continue reading →

The 260th edition of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post analyses the age at which players fielded during this season in 24 European top divisions were signed by their clubs of employment. Academy graduates are not included in the sample. RB Leipzig … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw For the past 19 years, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN specialised agency based in Geneva, Switzerland, has celebrated World Intellectual Property Day and the role that Intellectual Property (IP) plays in encouraging … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Several leading English Premier League football players are supporting a campaign by the PFA, the England and Wales Professional Footballers’ Association, to boycott social media for twenty-four hours, which began on Good Friday, 19 April … Continue reading →

By Jonathan Copping, Lawyer, Stone King, London, UK Tiger Woods completed a remarkable sporting comeback in winning one of golf’s majors by capturing the Masters at Augusta, Georgia, US, last week. It is the fifth time Woods has been presented … Continue reading →