STARS IN EUROPE - SENEGAL - CLUB - Everton sign Oumar Niasse

Everton sign Oumar Niasse from Lokomotiv Moscow striker.

3 Feb 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - GUINEA - CLUB - Kevin Constant signs for Bologna

Guinea international Kevin Constant signs for Bologna.

3 Feb 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - ALGERIA - CLUB - Algeria defender Carl Medjani is set to join Levante

Spanish side Levante have agreed to sign Carl Medjani.

2 Feb 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - CONGO DR - CLUB - Mbwana Samatta signs for Belgian side Genk

Tanzania international striker Mbwana Samatta has signed for Belgian side Genk .

1 Feb 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - MALI - CLUB - Werder Bremen sign Sambou Yatabare

Werder Bremen sign Mali midfielder Sambou Yatabare.

31 Jan 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - SOUTH AFRICA - CLUB - Erasmus leaves Pirates for Rennes

Kermit Erasmus joins French Ligue 1 side Rennes.

30 Jan 2016
STARS IN ASIA - CAMEROON - CLUB - Stephane Mbia joins Gervinho in China

Stephane Mbia has signed for Hebei China Fortune.

30 Jan 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - IVORY COAST - CLUB - Sunderland sign Lamine Kone

Sunderland have signed Lamine Koné from French side Lorient.

29 Jan 2016
STARS IN EUROPE - GHANA - CLUB - Christian Atsu loaned to Malaga

Chelsea winger Christian Atsu has joined Spanish side Malaga.

28 Jan 2016
STARS IN ASIA - IVORY COAST - CLUB - Gervinho joins Chinese side Hebei

Ivorian forward Gervinho joins Hebei China Fortune FC.

28 Jan 2016

Fifa - New presidential election to be held on 26 February

Fifa will hold an extraordinary congress to elect its new president on 26 February 2016.

Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president on 29 May but four days later announced his intention to stand down amid two investigations into corruption at football's world governing body.

Candidates for the position must be nominated before 26 October.

UEFA president Michel Platini has been asked by a majority of world football chiefs to stand for the post.

Initial predictions were of a December election, as favoured by several regional football confederations.

By the time of the vote, Blatter will have been in office for almost nine months from the date of his 2 June resignation speech.

He is not expected to backtrack on his announcement to stand aside, despite appearing to suggest in June he was reconsidering his decision.

Earlier on Monday, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein - who lost to Blatter in the May election - called for the 79-year-old Swiss to leave his post immediately.

"President Blatter's resignation cannot be dragged out any longer.

He must leave now," he said.

"An interim independent leadership must be appointed to administer the process of the elections, in addition to the reforms that are being discussed prior to the elections."

Sources have told BBC Sport's Richard Conway that a reform task force will be be announced by Blatter at Monday's news conference.

Term limits for all Fifa executives and its president, likely to be a maximum of three terms of four years, have also been approved in principle by the executive committee, as have integrity checks and salary transparency.

 

 

20 Jul 2015
(BBC Sport UK)

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