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Cash-strapped Netball Australia has been warned nearly $18m in funding will soon be reallocated to other sports amid concerns it will not be appropriately spent. #sportmanagement #sportsbusiness #sportsindustry #netball #businessagility #businessadvisors #fundingsolutions #fundingalert

Posti Group Oyj returns as the main partner of the #Football Association of #Finland⚽. The foundation of the decades-long cooperation is built on common values, the focus of which is #sustainability. Football's #multiculturalism and #inclusiveness are attractive factors that both Posti and the Association want to promote and strengthen: https://bit.ly/47LlSoK

May 17 Statement on Governance in the Sport The #GlobalPickleballFederation is the de facto international governing body for pickleball. By design, the GPF is a not-for-profit organization focused on the integrity and development of pickleball across the globe - from grassroots to recreational and high performance levels. GPF’s unifying function, structure and board are aligned with pickleball’s established continental federations and a valued volunteer network, engaged in growing the sport worldwide. The Pickleball Federation of the Americas, Confederation of African Pickleball, Oceania Pickleball Federation, Asian Pickleball Association, and member countries in Europe are integrated and in alignment with the GPF. The GPF launched after an international task force established an ethical framework and By-Laws that will ultimately lead the sport of pickleball to International Olympic Committee recognition. In an ongoing commitment to perpetuate the growth and advancement of pickleball worldwide, the Global Pickleball Federation 2024 Rulebook serves as the rules of pickleball standard for its 45 member countries and growing. The constant interplay between the GPF with its respective continental and national federations ensures uniform regulations, standards, and the ability to swiftly implement best practices across all levels, thereby maintaining the integrity and quality of pickleball worldwide. The GPF Board is comprised of international visionaries and leaders who have personally introduced pickleball in Australia, Ghana, Ireland, Mexico, The Philippines, Poland and beyond.    About #GlobalPickleballFederation With its responsibility, authority and accountability as the International Federation for pickleball, The Global Pickleball Federation promotes, leads and supports the growth and development of pickleball as a sport for all, for life. The impact of the unified, organized, and integrated national-continental-international pickleball system leads to pickleball participation in major global and regional multi-sport events and championships such as the recent 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana. Learn more about the GPF at https://lnkd.in/eRFVnBK6.

In the last five years, #Flamengo and #Palmeiras have won 10 of the 15 biggest trophies in South America. They are the result of managerial management of the clubs, which brings them closer to European ones (in terms of turnover and value). For the other Brazilian clubs there is still a long way to go, but for Brazilian #soccer to make a real leap in quality there are several challenges to face. I talk about it in this week's article:

Without Sport Integrity, athletes could not gain all the opportunities available to them as resources are consumed elsewhere. Join and listen to the upcoming webinar...SIGA, Sport Integrity Global Alliance, a global, independent, non-profit organisation focused on all forms of integrity in sport.

MCO: Premier League Teams & their links to Portuguese Clubs / Football Organisations. * Arctos Partners (7/12/23) purchased a 12.5% Stake in QSI (PSG owners) who also have a 29% stake in Braga. Arctos partners have a 5% stake in FSG owners of Liverpool and provided the funding for Josh Harris 18% stake in Crystal Palace. * Nottingham Forrest owner Evangelos Marinakis purchased an 80% stake in Rio Ave F.C for £20.5m (November 2023). * Aston Villa parent company V-Sports purchased a 48% stake in SC Vitoria (Feb 23); V-Sports had to reduced their ownership to 29% due to UEFA regulations preventing teams under the same ownership / influence entering their European competitions (Aug 23). * Crystal Palace Minority stake owner David Blitzer (18%) though MSP Sports Capital funded the purchase of Estoril 2019. * Guo Guangchang Founder of FOSUN & Chairman of Wolves acquired a 20% stake in Portuguese Super Agent 'Jorge Mendes' group Gestifute, Wolves have signed 20 Portuguese players from Gestifute since 2017. Jorge Mendes played a leading role in Evangelos Marinakis purchase of Rio Ave. #Footballbusiness

Netball Australia's embattled CEO, Kelly Ryan, has been here before – that uncomfortable place where it seems everywhere you turn is another dose of bad news. She is doing a good job of remaining upbeat, but how long will that keep the murmurs from becoming howls? Will she stay or will she go? Will she resign or will she be pushed? This week alone Netball Australia has been hit with three issues. The Collingwood Super Netball club confirmed it was handing back its licence at the end of the season. Collingwood players, while recognising the club and the players are partially responsibility for their lack of success, have detailed their lack of confidence in the sport's governing body claiming an "untenable dysfunction and disharmony" between players and administrators and "no confidence in the strategic direction of Netball Australia". On the same day, the chairman of the Australian Netball Players Association, Geoff Parmenter, resigned – adding to the widely held view that the relationship between the player representative body and Netball Australia is currently unworkable. As it stands every player, from all eight Super Netball teams, are off contract this September. None of them know what the future holds, despite the Netball Australia CEO remaining confident a new team will be in place to replace Collingwood. Establishing a new team will cost money, which Netball Australia does not have much of. To be up and running before the next season begins means they will be short on time too. Author of Code Wars – the battle for fans, dollars, and survival, Dr Hunter Fujak, told The Ticket netball's current dilemma mirrors the battle rugby union has faced. "The overall Super Netball competition is in a huge state of flux," Dr Fujak said. "There are probably parallels to the experience that rugby union has had over the last few years where once there's a bit of negative momentum around the sport and certain elements start falling away the issues tend to pile on in terms of a bit of a death spiral, one might say. "The concern for netball is that they are perhaps caught in one of these death spirals where there's just a lot of negative implications building upon one another." Those challenges include fulfilling a broadcast contract guaranteeing an eight team competition, locating where a replacement team will come from, the mental health challenges for players from the Collingwood team who face unemployment, and more broadly for all the players who require certainty that the competition will survive. Full story Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) #netball #sportsbusiness #governance #sportsindustry #womeninsport https://lnkd.in/gbzVq4jA

Insightful article by my colleague Rob Pearson on the nations relationship with sport and exercise. If you’re interested in finding out more, please reach out to me or any of the Teneo Sports Advisory Team.

MCO Links through Family - Aston Villa & CFG, two stories. Aston Villa New Club Partnership with Spanish 3rd tier club Real Union, a founding member of LaLiga Unai Emery brought a majority stake back in 2021. Emery's grandfather, Antonio, played 110 games as a GK for the Spanish club from 1928-1935. Emery's father, Juan, also a GK played 15 games for Union from 1957-59. V Sports partnership will partner with Emery to help develop technical and coaching methodologies, whilst also involving collaboration on areas including performance and data.   Does this type of collaboration (Manger/Emery & Employer/V Sports) suggest they have a long term commitment to each other. V Sports also formed a club partnership with Zed FC of Egypt, Zed FC is owned by Nassef Sawiris Brother Naguib. -- CFG Back in 2017 when PEP Guardiola joined City, a condition that CFG purchased Girona with ‘Girona Football Group’, the agency owned by PEP Brother PERE, together they purchased 44.3% each with the remaining stake owned by the Girona fans’ association. 2023 CFG own 47%, Girona Football Group (PERE) 16% and Marcelo Claure 35%, 2% Fans Association, Marcelo Claure brought Pere Guardiola shares, but interesting, Marcelo Claure is the owner of Club Boliviar, another club within the CFG umbrella. #Footballbusiness