Alexey Smertin, the former captain of the Russian national team, has been appointed sports director of the country’s World Cup bid.
Smertin, who was already an ambassador f...More>
The Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics has hired Tony Blair as a consultant.
The former Prime Minister will advise organisers of the Games and give at least one speech.
Sergi...More>
Football Federation Samoa (FFS) has appointed Frederick Young as its new chief executive.
The chief executive designate position is a 12-month development role which will s...More>
Euro 2012 has appointed four of Poland and Ukraine’s most famous footballers, including Andriy Shevchenko, as ambassadors for the tournament.
Shevchenko, 1975 European Foot...More>
Russia’s World Cup bid team has made its second senior appointment in the last week.
Viacheslav Koloskov, who served on the Fifa executive committee for 30 years in two sep...More>
Russia’s World Cup bid has appointed former Fifa head of communications Markus Siegler as a “special adviser”.
He joins Andreas Herren, a former director of communications ...More>
Stephen Fry, the writer, actor and broadcaster, has been approached to take on an ambassadorial role in the run up to London 2012.
The specifics of Fry’s role have yet to b...More>
Scottish Athletics has appointed Nigel Holl as its new chief executive.
Holl, currently director of netball for England Netball, will take up his new position on April 1. H...More>
Former South African Football Association (Safa) secretary general Donald Norman has been appointed as the new manager of World Cup venue the Peter Mokaba Stadium.
The posi...More>
Bahrain Grand Prix boss Martin Whitaker has been appointed the new chief executive of the V8 Supercar Championship.
Australia’s premier motorsport category has been looking...More>
Cricket Ireland has awarded six full-time contracts and increased funding for county players.
The extra cash will come from sponsors RSA Insurance, the Irish and British go...More>
Dennis Amiss has been formally retained as deputy chairman of the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
This will be former England and Warwickshire batsman Amiss’ third yea...More>
Arsenal Football Club has appointed Angus Kinnear as its first marketing director.
Kinnear, who has been at the club for five years, was promoted from the role of head of m...More>
The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) has appointed Ruth Mackensie as director of culture for 2012.
She will lead the Locog culture team reporting t...More>
