FIFPro is left shocked by the disturbances after the match between Al Masry and Al-Ahly in the Egyptian city of Port Said, whereby 74 lives were lost on Wednesday evening.

The Moroccan professional footballers association AMF organized a campaign to bring an end to violence in and around the stadiums. On the last match day of 2011, all the teams in Moroccan football participated.

FIFPro strongly urges FIFA and UEFA to take a stand regarding the physical abuse on Spartak Gogniev and the Russian Football Federation ruling. FIFPro will show FIFA and UEFA a video with footage of the attack on the player.

‘Now that we have seen this video, we are totally baffled’, says FIFPro Division Europe president Philippe Piat after having seen the images of the ill-treatment of Spartak Gogniev, a footballer of Russian club FC Krasnodar.

FIFPro is very disappointed with the Russian FA, which again failed to act decisively against a club that has displayed serious misconduct. The only one who was really tackled firmly was the player, Spartak Gogniev.