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28.11.2013 - (Plus 1 Den, Jozef Satara) Slovak national team athletes are on their knees, struggling on every front. Neighboring countries are pulling away by miles, and many even speak of an endangered species. The reason? Our athletes point to insufficien...

08.11.2013 - (Sport, Miroslav Antol) It has somehow become common that players wait for months to get paid by their clubs. What leverage do professional footballers have to claim the money they are owed? We sought the answer in a wide-ranging discussion ...

05.09.2013 - (Economic Daily, Lubomir Macek) Spanish clubs are in a catastrophic situation. Yet in the summer transfer window, they earned half a billion. Their debts total €3.5 billion. Some teams have already ceased to exist, and others are under threat. Ne...

05.09.2013 - (Trend, Zuzana Petkova) The Minister of Education has completed a reform of sports financing that, under his predecessor, failed to pass due to opposition from lobbyists.   The image of Minister Dušan Čaplovič is that of the unluckiest mem...

05.09.2013 - (Plus 1 Den, Jozef Satara) Jozef Tokos is known to the public mainly as a football agent. However, from 2010 to 2012, he took on a major challenge – a revolutionary change in the financing of Slovak sport from the state budget. In the role of s...

30.08.2013 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) The Milan-based team now has the most lucrative sponsor in Italy — Nike will pay €200 million over ten years. After thirteen years, Italian giants Inter Milan will not feature in European competition. Almost no one r...

09.08.2013 - (Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek) The European Commission wants to force clubs to become commercial companies — threatening to cost the giants millions. Spanish football powerhouses FC Barcelona and Real Madrid enjoy a privileged position in the nati...

09.08.2013 - (Sport, Robert Kotian) After a year of Eugen Jurzyca serving as Minister of Education and Sport, his reform team presented a proposal for a new sports funding model based largely on objective criteria — success plus a sport’s popularity. It...

07.08.2013 - (Sport, Robert Kotian) (...) When allocating subsidies to individual sports federations, the current ministry leadership is working from a slightly modified version of the system prepared by former minister Eugen Jurzyca’s reform group — th...

05.08.2013 - (Economic Daily, Lubomir Macek) The Spanish football giant’s debts keep growing — now standing at nearly €600 million. They are the most valuable sports club in the world, and right now also the biggest talking point. That’s why they want to break ...