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...rarer call: she decided to become a referee. What a call it turned out to be. Petignat, 36, is set to become the first woman ever to referee an international men's club soccer match when Sweden's AIK Solna plays Iceland's Fylkir this month in the UEFA Cup qualifying round in Sweden. Although...
...been refereeing international women's matches since 1996, UEFA's appointment "was a total surprise," says Petignat, whose biggest worldwide exposure so far has been officiating at the 1999 Women's World Cup final between the U.S. and China. "Nicole has shown herself more than capable of meeting the challenge," UEFA, European football's governing body, said in a statement announcing her appointment in July. But challenging it is. Over the past four years, while officiating at games in Switzerland's top division, she has heard rumblings of discontent. "Some men were not happy to have a woman telling them...
...often accompany Aberdeen's matches. The climate's tough on away fans, but it's even harder on the boggy pitch: last season, Aberdeen spent about €45,000 to maintain its field - a big sum for a declining club in a peripheral league. Little wonder, then, that when UEFA, European football's governing body, said last year that it was looking for volunteer clubs to test artificial football surfaces, Aberdeen leaped at the chance. The club not only stands to get a €204,000 subsidy from UEFA for the new surface if its application is accepted...
...feeds and a continuous audio feed. Another service revolves around the BBC's Top Gear TV program for car enthusiasts, with a VOD database of 140 test drives and reviews. For sports fans, RealOne SuperPass has live audio coverage, combined with interactive match tracker applications of more than 60 UEFA Champions League matches, on-demand highlights of each day at Wimbledon, plus a channel devoted to cricket with audio match reports, interactive statistics and live scorecards. On the news front, RealOne provides hourly reports from BBC News in the U.K. and BBC World on the Continent. Also available to RealOne...
...which Blatter put himself forward last month, will be held in Korea in May. The man who is taking Blatter on: Issa Hayatou, the president of African football, who last weekend announced his candidacy at an African soccer conference in Cairo. Hayatou enjoys the support of the leadership of UEFA, the body that governs European football and is one of FIFA's biggest constituencies. As ever with football, there are agendas within agendas: UEFA is headed by Lennart Johansson, whom Blatter defeated for the FIFA leadership in 1998. But even with bitter enemies arrayed against him and a potential financial...