ISSUE #10 A FIFA MASTER ALUMNI MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2014
Also in this edition CONNECTED Interview with Pierre Ducrey The FMA gives you special access to many major sports conferences around the world Honey Thaljieh on TEDx Zurich
Meet the Class of 2015
FIFA retains the Lanfranchi Cup
Enter our End-of-the-Year Raffle
Movers & Shakers
FMA Family
CIES News
FROM THE COMMITTEE MEET THE CLASS OF 2015
Dear alumni,
The FMA Quarterly reaches its 10th edition with a brand new design. We hope you’ll like it. Please, give us your opinion in our poll.
Your Committee continues to work hard to bring benefits for its members. Our feature story is about the large number of agreements we have done with important sports conferences around to globe, in order to allow our members to pay reduced prices or even attend them for free.
We also still active on the social side. In September our men’s and women’s football team went to Zurich to play the Click here to find out more about each student currently traditional annual friendly football match, followed by dinner and party. CIES is also organising (and inviting all attending the FIFA Master in Management, Law and alumni) their annual Christmas Appéritif, in Lausanne. Those that are not that close to Switzerland can also engage by Humanities of Sport. participating in our Super End-of-the-Year Raffle, which this year will give an official FC Bayern München shirt, signed by the team captain Philipp Lahm. Tickets cost only EUR 8 (USD 10, CHF 10). You have only until 17 December to enter the draw! Special thanks to Henry Rummenigge!
END-OF-THE-YEAR RAFFLE Meanwhile the new FIFA Master Class have started their course in Leicester, and will soon be heading to Milan. Check the right side of the page to take a look at their profiles.
Our special interview of the quarter is with Pierre Ducrey (Class of 2003), who has recently been appointed Olympic Games Associate Director at the International Olympic Committee.
We hope you all enjoy the new FMA Quarterly and we wish you Happy Holidays, wherever you are in the world, and a prosperous 2015!
The FMA Committee
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FMA QUARTELY #10, DEC. 2014, P.02 CONNECTED: FMA members have special deals in major sports conferences around the world
Dear alumni,
It is our commitment to work in order to try to bring benefits to our members. With that in mind, we have recently reached agreements with a number of important sports conferences around the globe, which granted discounts or even free passes to our alumni.
The plan is to continue with – or improve – the deals we currently have and, if possible, to extend it to other events. On 17 October 2014, Honey Thaljieh (FMA’12) spoke at
Let us know if you are interested in any event in particular. the prestigious TED Talks, in Zurich. The Palestinian, who
currently works for FIFA, gave an encouraging speech Sometimes we clearly benefit from CIES’s relationship with the events, which is the case of Soccerex, WISE and ISC Geneva2014 – it’s great to have that close partnership. In other cases, it is the FMA Committee, itself, that agrees entitled “Breaking out of prison”. Click here to watch it. such deals. See below how the alumni enjoyed from special offers to attend sports conferences this year.
Soccerex: the global leading soccer-specific and business event organiser, offered the chance to attend the Soccerex Global Convention 2014 for free to all FIFA Master alumni who were “between jobs”. The invitation was extended to their African and American Forums.
IFA – International Football Arena: We offered one free ticket to whoever was interested in attending their event in Berlin, in October. Federico Raviglione attended the event for free.
Leaders: The organisers offered free passes and discounts to some selected alumni. Travis Black and Isabella Burczak were two of those who benefited from it.
Sports Pro’s The Brand Conference: FIFA Master alumni were granted 40% discount to attend the event in London.
ISC - Geneva2014: The organisers of the event which is due to take place on 10 and 11 December informed that nearly 40 alumni applied (before the deadline) and were granted free passes to some of the conferences. FIFA RETAINS THE LANFRANCHI CUP On 26 September the FMA football teams went to Zurich IEG2005: IEG, the largest and most important sponsorship conference in the world, is offering a 35% discount ($770) to play our annual friendly matches (men and women) at to all FIFA Master alumni who wish to attend the event on 15 to 18 March 2015, in Chicago, USA. If you wish to profit the FIFA House. Better trained, the home team won from this special offer, send an email to [email protected] by no later than December 12th, 2014. both matches, thus keeping the Lanfranchi Cup - awarded to the winner of the men’s game - for one more year. Read more here.
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CIES NEWS
FIFA MASTER STUDENT EMMA TWIGG NAMED THE 2014 WORLD ROWING FEMALE ROWER OF THE YEAR
PALESTINE: SUCCESS FOR THE WORKSHOP ON MARKETING AND SPONSORSHIP Annual Sponsorship Conference: Special Offer for FMA members CIES OBSERVATORY: REAL-BARCELONA TOPS THE RANKINGS FOR THE MOST “EXPENSIVE” MATCHES IEG, the largest and most important sponsorship conference in the world, is offering a 35% discount ($770) to all FIFA OPENING OF THE ON-LINE APPLICATION PROCESS FOR THE FIFA MASTER Master alumni who wish to attend the event on 15 to 18 March 2015, in Chicago, USA. Offer for limited time only. Emma Twigg 16TH EDITION
FMA QUARTELY #10, DEC. 2014, P.04 MOVERS & SHAKERS FMA FAMILY
Francesca Sanzone (Class of 2003) was promoted to Mario Maggi (2012) became Executive Secretary of WEDDINGS Deputy General Manager of FIGC; Licensing Commission at Peru Football Federation;
Pierre Ducrey (2003) was promoted to Olympic Games Gabriel Andrade (2008) is Sport Manager at Toronto Lindsay-Anne Freire Associated Director at IOC; 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Organizing Janmohamed on 12 September. Committee; Dan Israel (2005) is now Competition Manager Sydney Ross Wenzel and Yasemin Bay at LOC AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015; Konstanze Grammatikos (2012) is now Project the knot on 13 September. Manager at Nüssli International; Nadia Wu (2014) joined Juventus FC at their Global BABIES Partnerships department; Nzumbe Nyanduga (2014) is Trainee at IOC;
Ulf-Rauno Marquard (2012) joined World Series of Fabio Laudísio (2001) became Marketing and Lisa and John Siner Boxing as Competition Coordinator; Commercial Director at Sao Paulo State Football Hudson John, on 2 October. Federation;
Alfredo Quiros (2014) started a 1-year traineeship at Veronique and Alessandro Pellicciotta became the proud parents of Matteo Nicolas, on 9 Concacaf ; Eugene Delaney (2006) is now Head of B2B at Racing Post; October.
Christin Hausmann (2014) joined TEAM Marketing as Commercial Rights Delivery Coordinator; Alexandre Almeida (2011) is now Venue Manager at Maria Guadalupe Navarrete and Antonio, for the arrival of Amanda, on 4 November. Rio 2016. Alex Staehelin (2013) is Infrastructure Commercial Gabriela and Adib Hashem ( ), for the birth of Manager at Manchester City FC; Esamo, on 20 November.
Jakub Mihule (2014) is Account Manager, Sports Partnerships at Prague International Marathon;
Isabella Burczak (2006) is now Head of Sport Projects at IOC;
Biplav Gautam (2007) is Director Security Services Asia at Sportradar AG;
Kresimir Spajic (2004) is Lecturer Football Management at Croatian Football Federation;
Montserrat Naranjo (2010) is now Community Manager at Wikot; Alessandro Pellicciotta and family (left); John Siner and family
FMA QUARTELY #10, DEC. 2014, P.05 INTERVIEW
FMAQ You have just been promoted to Olympic Games Associate PIERRE DUCREY Director. Can you tell us what is your main role and what do you see as the biggest challenges? The Swiss Pierre Ducrey, 40, graduated from the FIFA Master in PD As Olympic Games Associate Director, I am in charge of 2003 and since then has built a remarkable career in sports – managing the IOC day to day operations for the Olympic Games. having been recently appointed IOC’s Olympic Games Associate My team and I are working closely with all IOC departments to Director. ensure that each organising committee is following the agreed plan to deliver the Games. We work very closely with the His sports management career started right after the masters, organising committees and travel regularly to the host cities to when he went to work as an intern for the Office of the Special assess progress, identify issues and risks and propose Advisor to the UN Secretary General for promotion of corresponding mitigation measures. The biggest challenge we are development and peace through sport. “A pretty long title for a facing is to ensure we continue to deliver a fantastic event which very exciting environment and mission”, he says. His role, meets the expectations of stakeholders and general public whilst however, was quite limited, so he decided to apply for another containing cost and complexity. This is one of the core objectives internship – now at the International Olympic Committee. “There I of the Agenda 2020 process promoted by our President and our would have more opportunities to acquire the experience I was everyday concern. looking for”, he remembers. He was recruited by the Sports Doing the FIFA Master proved to be Department, where he remained until 2010, occupying different FMAQ As a founding member of the FMA, in your opinion, what positions and being ultimately in charge of Sport Operations and should be the main concern for our association? IF relations for the Summer Games. In 2010, Pierre moved to the PD The role of the association is to ensure graduates remain Olympic Games Department, where he still works today. committed to the programme at the end of the course. It must regretted it. If the IOC offers the right opportunity for you, then go therefore create opportunities for former students to come for it but there might be other opportunities which will be more Pierre was one of the founding members of the FIFA Master together on a regular basis, remain active in the network and Alumni, back in 2003. “Back then, the master was still very new contribute to its developments as ambassadors, speakers, rewarding for you at the start of your career. The key is to know and we felt that a key pillar of its future growth would be its recruiters and any other capacity that can benefit the association exactly what role you are looking for and put all your energy alumni”, he recalls. “What better asset could there be for a but also interest them. It has to be a two way street. behind that objective. programme intended to train the sport administrators of tomorrow than being able to rely on a strong network of FMAQ How important was the FIFA Master in your career? professionals already established in leading sporting associations? PD Doing the master proved to be a key step in my career. It Short profile: I was glad to contribute to the first steps in establishing the allowed me to meet fantastic individuals who became close association and even more so to see it develop so well over the friends, meet with key people in the industry and confirm that this Pierre Ducrey, 40, Swiss following years”. is the career I wanted to pursue. It also allowed me to access Olympic Games Associate Director at IOC internship opportunities which opened doors in the sport City of Birth: Vouvry FMA Quarterly How did you decide you wanted to work with industry. Marital status: Married sports, and how did you find out about the FIFA Master? Favourite sport’s personality: Stefan Edberg and, of Pierre Ducrey Following a master degree in international FMAQ What is your fondest memory of the FIFA Master? relations, I was considering doing a PhD which was four-year PD There are so many… I wouldn’t know where to start. Let’s say course, Roger Federer. commitment. The possibility of being stuck in a library and in it is one fantastic experience overall. One that cannot be forgotten! Favourite sport: Tennis. class rooms for that long made me reflect long and hard on what I Favourite team: Servette (Geneva) truly wanted to do. I decided there were three things I wanted to FMAQ Many of people who take the FIFA Master dream about Most memorable sporting moment: I would say ideally combine in my career: working in an international working for the IOC. What advice could you give to them on that? environment, sport and management. I started looking for a PD More so than the organisation, the role should be the key watching Federer and Wawrinka win gold in Beijing. career path that could do that and heard about the FIFA Master aspect to consider. I was really happy to work for the UN at the There was really something special between them during a discussion with former FIFA Secretary General, Michel beginning of my career but quickly realised that I was not going to that day which could be felt all the way into the Zen-Ruffinen. He thought the programme fit what I was looking learn much from the role I was in. I decided to move on and never stands. for. I agreed!
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