‘Only a few scientific studies have been done about the long-term social-medical problems that arise as a consequence of a career in top sport’, says Vincent Gouttebarge, former professional footballer turned scientist.

After a long wait, the severe heart attack suffered by the Luis Flores Abarca (Ñublense) during a game against Palestino - inl 2009 - has been acknowledged as an accident at work, so he will be getting an invalidity pension.

FIFPro visited Didier Drogba, the captain of the national team of Ivory Coast and honorary president of FIFPro Division Africa. Drogba talks with FIFPro about football in Ivory Coast and his new adventure in China.

Iain Russell is one of two professional footballers who have just started writing a monthly blog for PFA Scotland. In his first blog he talks about one of professional football’s taboos: players suffering from depression.

Miguel Loayza, who plays as number 10 for Blooming, spoke on several subjects, emphasizing the prominent role played by the Bolivian footballers’ union (Fabol) in defending its members who are owed money by clubs.