The Slovenian professional footballers’ association SPINS and players from the Slovenian first division support the campaign Choose pink future. Choose life. They do it by wearing pink shoelaces.

The Spanish players’ association AFE is going to install defibrillators in each stadium of the Spanish third division. And the national team will help the union supplying other clubs with the same equipment.

FIFPro Division Europe, UNI Europa and ETUC have today in Brussels entered into an agreement to defend the fundamental democratic and social rights of professional football players and other professional sportspeople.

Romania and Italy played each other on Wednesday. But the 1-1 draw was overshadowed by the racist abuse of Mario Balotelli, who was repeatedly booed by a group of about 100 extreme right-wing Italian fans.

FIFPro named four players’ unions as Candidate Member during the general assembly. In doing so, the world players’ union rewarded the progress made by the players’ unions of Ghana, Namibia, Ukraine and Zimbabwe.