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UEFAdirect-73-Mai•E/7.0:anglais 17.4.2008 11:29 Page 1 5.08 Club competition finals on the horizon 03 EURO 2008 team workshop 07 Scoreboard project 10 2010 finals awarded to Madrid and Hamburg 12 No 58 – Février 2007 73 May 2008 UEFAdirect-73-Mai•E/7.0:anglais 17.4.2008 11:29 Page 2 Message Photos: UEFA-pjwoods.ch of the president An immeasurable loss Mathieu Sprengers passed away on 6 April, aged 69, after an illness that was as cruel as it was sudden. President of the Dutch Football Association since 1993, Mathieu Sprengers was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee at the UEFA Congress in London in 1996. In 2000, he took responsibility for UEFA’s finances as treasurer, an office that he held until 2007. In this capacity, he played a crucial role in UEFA’s solidarity policy, in particular by chairing the HatTrick Board, dealing with financial assistance to the national associations. Mathieu Sprengers was also one of the key figures of EURO 2000, co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands, and UEFA benefited enormously from the experience he acquired in this respect. IN THIS ISSUE A man of great integrity, faithful to his ideas Club competition finals but respectful of the opinion of the majority, Mathieu on the horizon 03 Sprengers was one of the pillars of the UEFA U17 final round Executive Committee, through both his pleasant in Turkey 06 nature and his forward-thinking approach. From his days of playing football in EURO 2008 team workshop 07 the streets as a boy, he kept the spirit of friendship as well as a constant desire to Scoreboard project develop grassroots football.
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