UEFA"Direct #155 (01.03.2016)
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No. 155 MARCH 2016 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE UNION OF EUROPEAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONS A BREATH OF NONO TOTO RACISMRACISM FRESH AIR How Iceland, one of Europe’s smallest nations, made the big time No.155 • March 2016 • March No.155 FUTSAL THE FOR THE EURO TECHNICIAN RECORD A record-breaking A hat-trick for 10 years of tournament Del Bosque? club licensing BIRTHDAYS, COMMUNICATIONS, FORTHCOMING EVENTS BIRTHDAYS Jim Boyce (Northern Ireland, 21 March) Alan Snoddy (Northern Ireland, 29 March) Kai-Erik Arstad (Norway, 21 March) Bernadette Constantin (France, 29 March) Denis Bastari (Albania, 21 March) Bernadino González Vázquez (Spain, Benny Jacobsen (Denmark, 1 March) Ginés Meléndez (Spain, 22 March) 29 March) 50th Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain, 1 March) Chris Georghiades (Cyprus, 22 March) Sanna Pirhonen (Finland, 29 March) Damir Vrbanović (Croatia, 2 March) Michail Kassabov (Bulgaria, 22 March) William Hugh Wilson (Scotland, 30 March) Jenni Kennedy (England, 2 March) Pascal Fritz (France, 25 January) Richard Havrilla (Slovakia, 31 March) 50th Hans Lorenz (Germany, 3 March) Luca Zorzi (Switzerland, 22 March) Marina Mamaeva (Russia, 31 March) Zbigniew Boniek (Poland, 3 March) 60th Hugo Quaderer (Liechtenstein, 22 March) Matteo Simone Trefoloni (Italy, 31 March) Alexandru Deaconu (Romania, 3 March) Pafsanias Papanikolaou (Greece, Carolin Greiner Mai (Germany, 3 March) 22 March) 40th François Vasseur (France, 3 March) Andrew Niven (Scotland, 22 March) COMMUNICATIONS Patrick McGrath (Republic of Ireland, Franz Krösslhuber (Austria, 23 March) 4 March) Andrea Lastrucci (Italy, 23 March) Kuddusi Müftüoglu (Turkey, 4 March) Mirosław Malinowski (Poland, 23 March) • The Lithuanian Football Federation Crawford Wilson (Northern Ireland, 5 March) Mahmut Özgener (Turkey, 23 March) has appointed Edvinas Eimontas as its Zoran Bahtijarević (Croatia, 5 March) Hilda McDermott (Republic of Ireland, president, replacing Julius Kvedaras, Ronen Hershco (Israel, 5 March) 23 March) and has appointed Nerijus Dunauskas Jim Shaw (Northern Ireland, 6 March) Outi Saarinen (Finland, 23 March) 50th as its general secretary, replacing Boris Durlen (Croatia, 6 March) Fernando Ruiz Hierro (Spain, 23 March) Edvinas Eimontas. Ichko Lozev (Bulgaria, 6 March) 60th Dejan Dimovski (FYR Macedonia, 23 March) Hervé Piccirillo (France, 6 March) Christoforos Zografos (Greece, 24 March) • The Gibraltar Football Association Dan Ashworth (England, 6 March) Michael Kirchner (Germany, 25 March) has a new postal address: Pedro Maria Aurteneche Viñegra Wilfried Straub (Germany, 26 March) 62/64 Irish Town, 2nd Floor (Spain, 7 March) Gitte Holm (Denmark, 26 March) PO Box 513 Dušan Maravić (Serbia, 7 March) Jelle Goes (Netherlands, 26 March) GX11 1AA Tomás Gea (Andorra, 7 March) 50th Steen Jørgensen (Denmark, 26 March) Gibraltar Josep Lluís Vilaseca Guasch (Spain, John Peacock (England, 27 March) 60th 8 March) José Antonio Casajus (Spain, 27 March) • The Football Federation of Kris Bellon (Belgium, 8 March) Armen Minasyan (Armenia, 27 March) Kazakhstan has a new postal address: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium, 9 March) Pavel Cebanu (Moldova, 28 March) 8 Saryarka Avenue, 4th Floor Henk Kesler (Netherlands, 9 March) Edgar Obertüfer (Switzerland, 29 March) Astana 010000 Herbert Fandel (Germany, 9 March) Ian Beasley (England, 29 March) Kazakhstan Otar Giorgadze (Georgia, 9 March) Stefan Ormandjiev (Bulgaria, 29 March) Mateo Beusan (Croatia, 10 March) Ilkka Koho (Finland, 10 March) FORTHCOMING EVENTS Jasmin Baković (Bosnia-Herzegovina, 10 March) Meetings Diana Andersen (Denmark, 10 March) 8 March, Nyon 18 March, Nyon 21 March, Nyon Lucien Kayser (Luxembourg, 11 March) HatTrick Committee UEFA Champions League Club Licensing Committee Olga Zhukovska (Ukraine, 11 March) and UEFA Europa League: Jean-François Crucke (Belgium, 12 March) quarter-final draws Miroslav Vitković (Croatia, 12 March) Thomas Partl (Austria, 13 March) Yngve Hallén (Norway, 14 March) Competitions Neil Jardine (Northern Ireland, 14 March) 8/9 March 22 March Nikola Prentic (Montenegro, 14 March) UEFA Youth League: Futsal World Cup European qualifying: Ivan Ćurković (Serbia, 15 March) quarter-finals play-offs (first legs) Götz Dimanski (Germany, 15 March) Michael Thomas Ross (Northern Ireland, 8/9 and 15/16 March 23/24 March 15 March) UEFA Champions League: UEFA Women’s Champions League: Cornelis Bakker (Netherlands, 17 March) round of 16 (return legs) quarter-finals (first legs) Simeon Tsolakidis (Greece, 17 March) 50th Christos Skapoullis (Cyprus, 18 March) 10 March 23–29 March www.uefafoundation.org Marcello Nicchi (Italy, 18 March) UEFA Europa League: European Under-21 Championship: Paul Elliott (England, 18 March) round of 16 (first legs) qualifiers Marina Tashchyan (Armenia, 18 March) Ronald Zimmermann (Germany, 19 March) 17 March 30/31 March Sándor Csányi (Hungary, 20 March) UEFA Europa League: UEFA Women’s Champions League: Edward Foley (Republic of Ireland, 20 March) round of 16 (return legs) quarter-finals (return legs) UEFA DIRECT • March 2016 – 51 EDITORIAL A NEW DAWN FOR UEFA DIRECT Dear readers, So what can you expect? From a first glance, you will notice that the number of pages has It is with great pride that UEFA presents to you more than doubled. However, as we all know, the new and improved UEFA Direct. Following bigger is not necessarily always better and a diligent consultation period with internal and that is why our focus is not only on the external stakeholders, we have relaunched breadth of the magazine, or even its new your magazine with the aim of further look and feel: it is also on the stories that informing and engaging you in the work we showcase all our achievements in grassroots, do together to protect, promote and develop development and education. football in Europe. We also want to highlight all your victories, both on and off the field, and to feature the profiles of the people who accomplish them. Furthermore, we will aim to use a larger number of creative images to reflect the diversity of football cultures around Europe, while simultaneously producing an increased number of dynamic graphics which contain insightful facts and figures on how the sport we love is growing and flourishing on our continent. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this new version of UEFA Direct and welcome feedback on how we can further improve it. Pedro Pinto UEFA Chief of Communications and Media UEFA DIRECT • March 2016 – 03 CONTENTS 34 26 Sportsfile KSÍ CONTENTS Official publication of 6 Executive Committee 28 Expansion of the EURO the Union of European At its meeting in Nyon on 21 January, From a field of four in 1960 to the current Football Associations the Executive Committee approved the 24, UEFA Direct traces the milestones in Chief editor: introduction of goal-line technology in the history of the EURO. Emmanuel Deconche UEFA competitions. Deputy chief editor: 30 More than just a ticket Dominique Maurer 10 EURO 2016 final draw A UEFA match ticket is much more than Contributors: UEFA Direct goes behind the scenes a passport to a magical experience. UEFA Alexis Angelopoulos, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Direct takes a closer look at a ticket for the Christopher Burke, Mark Chaplin, Alexandre Doskov, final of EURO 2012. Michael Harrold, Martyn 16 The Technician Hindley, Arthur Jeanne, Vicente del Bosque believes that Spain 32 Club licensing 10 years on Patrick Lemoine, Paul Murphy, Graham Turner and can make it three EUROs in a row. A new report on the evolution of the UEFA Language Services club licensing system highlights the Production: 20 Futsal EURO positive impact it has had across the Touchline In Belgrade, Spain won their sixth European game. Printing: European championship, beating Russia Artgraphic Cavin in the final. 34 The miracle of Iceland CH-1422 Grandson A quiet revolution has been taking Editorial deadline: 26 Winter referee courses place in Icelandic football, resulting in 13 February 2016 The annual advanced and introductory the country becoming the smallest ever Cover photo: courses for UEFA referees took place in to reach a EURO final round. A special Football can only be played Cyprus in early February. report from the country where indoor outdoors a few months a year facilities are the name of the game. in Iceland. Keystone 40 News from member associations 04 – UEFA DIRECT • March 2016 CONTENTS UEFA Getty Images 16 6 20 Sportsfile UEFA DIRECT • March 2016 – 05 UEFA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ebruary’s FIFA presidential election and the Executive Committee,” the statement continued, implementation of goal-line technology in “and we are certain he is the right man to take FUEFA competitions were the main items on FIFA forward now.” the agenda for the UEFA Executive Committee’s “I am very honoured for the support I have first meeting of the year in Nyon on 21 January. received from the Executive Committee and the The following day, the presidents and general associations,” Gianni Infantino said after the secretaries of UEFA’s 54 member associations discussions in Nyon. “I know now, even more so, also came to the House of European Football for what my responsibilities are. This increases my a briefing on the election for the FIFA presidency, belief in doing the right thing for football.” which will be held in Zurich on 26 February. The Executive Committee also decided in The Executive Committee and European Nyon that no UEFA presidential election would national associations gave their backing to be scheduled until the sports justice appeal UEFA General Secretary