Football
FIFA Launches First-ever Digital Platform Dedicated To Professional Football
FIFA on Monday launched the FIFA Professional Football Landscape, the first-ever digital database comprising key facts and figures on players, clubs, transfers and top-tier competitions across all 211 member associations.
Bringing together data from a broad spectrum of key performance indicators that reflect the status of clubs and leagues worldwide, the new tool offers a detailed visual overview of the game.
The FIFA Professional Football Landscape has been created for the whole football community in order to monitor the professionalisation of football, in line with FIFA’s strategic objective of mapping and promoting football development around the world in order to make the game truly global.
Over the coming weeks, all member associations will be given access to the platform, thus enabling them to provide updates on both men’s and women’s football on a regular basis.
Key facts and figures The FIFA Professional Football Landscape provide a fascinating insight into the structure of professional football across the world, including the following takeaways: Nearly 130,000 professional players and more than 4,400 professional clubs have been identified around the world.
-91% of member associations have implemented a national club licensing system. -65% of national top-tier competitions are organised by the respective football association.
-54% of domestic competitions around the world follow a traditional home-and-away format.
-88% of competition organisers negotiate their TV rights deals collectively.
According to the Italian publication II Mattino, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to make an offer of €90 million for Victor Osimhen, the top striker for Napoli.
According to the report, Osimhen’s contract has a release clause worth about €120 million, although Napoli President Aurelio de Laurentiis might accept a price less than that.
The Nigerian forward signed a new contract with Napoli last December, but the club is ready to let go of him at the end of the current campaign.
PSG, Chelsea, and Arsenal have all been mentioned frequently as potential suitors for the forward.
To resolve the striker’s future, intermediaries are allegedly collaborating with Roberto Calenda, his agent.
Osimhen, who left Ligue 1 team Lille in 2022 to join Napoli, has made 125 appearances for the Partenopei and scored 72 goals.
Super Eagles of Nigeria goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye has won Udinese’s Player of the Month Award for February after having one of the best runs of his football career.
Maduka Okoye is just coming out from a very difficult phase of his football career after losing his place in his club and international teams.
Recall that after the 24-year-old Nigerian goalkeeper made an error that contributed to the Super Eagles’ exit from the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon, the goalkeeper has found it impossible to retain his first spot in the team.
Things got more complicated for Maduka Okoye when former Super Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro, didn’t invite him for the just concluded 2023 AFCON in which Chippa United goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali made his name and grabbed the team’s first spot.
As he was struggling with the national team, Okoye was also struggling in Europe as he couldn’t get game time at Championship side, Watford.
His lack of game time forced him to move to Udinese on August 24, 2023. Initially, Okoye couldn’t make the first team at the Italian side until last January.
Okoye’s best month at the club came in February 2024 in which he helped the struggling team to win two games, draw once, and suffer one defeat. The Nigerian out-of-favour goalkeeper kept two clean sheets in the said month.
Due to that, before Udinese’s 2-0 defeat at home to Torino on Saturday, March 16, the Italian Serie A club presented him with the Player of the Month Award.
Note that the Nigeria international has made 13 Serie A appearances for the Italian club in which he conceded 18 goals. Football statistics platform, Opta, claimed that Maduka Okoye has never made an error leading to a goal since he joined Udinese.
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