Highest amount of football transfers

Nine days ago the world football association released a report on transfers with some stunning numbers.
Last year clubs from all over the world brought reinforcements which resulted biggest spending than 2018. Just in 2019 teams have spent 6.7 billion euros or 5.8 percent more than the year before. Also there was another record accomplished: 18.042 international transfers were realized where 15.463 players was involved from 178 nationalities.

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List of best local championships from around the globe

Nine days ago the International federation of football history and statistics has published a list of the strongest leagues in the world.
According to this organization the English Premier league is the best for 2019. Brazilian Serie A is in second place, while the Spanish LaLiga have dropped to third spot although this league for nine years in a row was at the top. Number four in the list is Italian Serie A, Primera A of Colombia is fifth. Out of 100 leagues around the world at position six is the Portuguese Primeira liga...
The same association also has declared which are the best leagues by confederations: at Africa Tunisian Ligue professionelle 1 is the strongest ; K league 1 of South Korea is best throughout whole Asia ; Mexican Liga MX is powerful in North, Central America and Caribbean region ; Super ligue of New Caledonia is the best on the Oceania part while from the overall look of the above list it is easy to guess whose championship rules Europe and South America.

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Troubled region

Unfortunately, in People's Republic of China cannot be played international matches at the moment due to the well known situation with the mysterious (deadly) virus thus they are going to be shifted in other, safe countries. As this is very serious, last week the Asian football organization took precautionary steps. The women qualifying football tournament for the Olympic games this summer, which supposed to be played in Wuhan, later Nanjing, is completely moved to Sydney. After Australia has been confirmed as a host six days ago, dates for this competition stayed the same (03 - 09 February).
Completely different kind of situation was in Islamic Republic of Iran. Preliminary duels for Champions league in the continent are already underway, so two clubs had to play their games elsewhere. Rising war tensions in that part of the region has prompted several governments to issue security warnings to its citizens not to travel to the Persian state. Neutral venue was chosen for Shahr Khodro - Riffa and Esteghlal - Kuwait, and these duels who were scheduled for past Tuesday finally played four days ago in United Arab Emirates.

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Good timing of changing a traditional kit

Yesterday Nantes has played with an unusual outfit in their championship duel against Bordeaux. Instead of green and yellow combination of which the club is famous for, the kit was replaced with blue and white. The real reason why the home team played in special Albiceleste (white and sky blue) equipment is that the Canaries paid tribute to their striker Emiliano Sala who tragically died in helicopter crash last year, while the whole income went as an aid to football school in his home country Argentina.

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Wealthiest teams of the world

Last Tuesday, one of the biggest consulting firm in the world Deloitte has published a list of 20 worlds richest clubs in football, where all positions were dominated by European teams. The study was made based upon: selling on television rights, revenues from tickets and licensed souvenirs sale.
For 2018-19 season Barcelona is at the top with 840.8 million euros, Real Madrid is second having 757.3 million, while Manchester united is third with 711.5 million euros. These trio of clubs is in the list for the third consecutive time where only they are changing positions in this period.
At number four is Bayern Munich with 660.1 million euros, 635.9 million collected PSG, Manchester city gathered 610.6 million euros...

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