In his new blog, Dr. Vincent Gouttebarge discusses the risks of serious knee problems that professional footballers endure during and after their career as a player.

Gareth Bale has been named Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year by the English Professional Footballers’ Association. The Welsh player from Tottenham Hotspur is the third man to win both awards in the same season.

Ghana was where, just a few weeks after its visit to Ivory Coast, FIFPro Division Africa held the second of the seminars that will take it to all of the member countries on the continent throughout 2013.

The entire football world must take responsibility for preventing clubs from succumbing to insolvency and players becoming the victims of financial problems at the clubs. This is the primary conclusion from the FIFPro Legal Conference.

FIFPro urges the Maltese Football Association to revise its regulations in order to better protect the players from clubs who refuse to respect the players' contracts and refuse to pay their players what they are owed.