Champions League eclipses NFL in balance
The News Review:
- Champions League eclipses NFL in balance
- Somalia’s war, a second chance for Ethiopia’s Zenawi
- The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
- European football struggles to stay competitive
- Ontario rejects Ottawa’s Candu stand
- Glamorgan reverse overseas policy
Champions League eclipses NFL in balance
Taipei Times - Dec 27, 2006
“In Europe you have to let the free market have free reign with buying and selling players and contracts,” he said. “What we can do is introduce sporting rules so no club has an advantage and ensure there is a distribution of profits,” he said. One measure UEFA has introduced is a quota system of home grown players to try to stop rich clubs buying up all the best talent across the globe. Teams must now name in their 25-man Champions league squads at least two players that came through their own system and two more that came through the system in the same country. Neither Arsenal nor Chelsea could manage that and so were forced to name 24-man squads. Life will get more difficult for those two as the quota will eventually rise to four and four. “Already Barcelona has eight and Lyon seven, so you can be successful with home-grown players,” Gaillard said.
Somalia’s war, a second chance for Ethiopia’s Zenawi
Sudan Tribune - Dec 27, 2006
Consequently, it has nothing to say against Ethiopia whatever the Ethiopian regime does concerning its national sovereignty just like Israel. As a result of the regional political game to balance power, Ethiopia has a huge political capital in the eyes of the Western world. Home grown terrorists like AFD, OLF, ONLF and EPPF have become history. Viewed from Ethiopian political leverage, one can also see that this is the best time for Meles Zenawi to regain our port Assab, by every means possible. For example, Ethiopia can tell the Western world that it needs to control the port, for security concerns. No one forced Israel to go out from Golan Heights of Syria until now. No one can force Ethiopia for taking Asseb back.
The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
Peninsula On-line - Dec 27, 2006
In Europe you have to let the free market have free reign with buying and selling players and contracts,