The ethics committee of the Russian Football Federation RFS sanctioned Emannuel Emenike for his actions during last Sunday’s match at Dynamo Moscow. The Spartak Moscow Nigerian striker made a ‘rude gesture’.

Stefan Ciobanu is a Romanian professional footballer. On Thursday he disclosed that he has played in manipulated Romanian league matches, in an interview with national newspaper ProSport. ‘You do what you’re told to do.’

The Croatian professional footballers’ association HUNS welcomes the suspensions of three top flight teams, but insists that more needs to be done to clean up Croatian professional football.

The first year of the FIFPro Online Academy is running smoothly . One of the students following this special course for professional footballers is Niklas Moisander, a member of the Finnish national team.

Gernot Zirngast, chairman of the Austrian footballers’ association, talks about the current state of football in Austria. ‘At present there aren't even ten clubs that satisfy all the conditions for playing football as a full-time job.’