DOHA, March 25, 2025 - The 1993-born Federico Correzzola’s journey with Special Olympics began in 2009, sparked by a simple invitation to watch a friend’s soccer match in his hometown of Vigevano, an Italian town with historic medieval ruins, has around 60 thousand residents and located in the region of Pavia, 30-km away from Milano, Italy. That day, as he stood by the field, he felt an undeniable connection to the sport and the Special Olympic athletes. A shiver ran down his spine, and before the day...

LAUSANNE, March 24, 2025 - Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who received the Investigative Reporting prize at the maiden AIPS Sport Media Awards ceremony in January 2019, has been awarded USD$18 million (£14 million) in damages after a US court ruled that he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong.AIPS President Gianni Merlo said: “We would like to congratulate Anas for this victory. When we chose him as the first Investigative Reporting winner of our awards, it was a very...

VALLADOLID, March 23, 2025 - Juan Antonio Prieto, a member of the AIPS Executive Committee, has been elected as the new first vice president of the Spanish Sports Press Association (AEPD) during the organization’s 61st Congress, held in Valladolid. At the same session, Jesús Álvarez was elected new president of the Spanish Sports Journalists Association.Álvarez has spent his entire professional career at Televisión Española, where he has presented sports news for the past 35 years, becoming a well-known...

ABUJA, March 24, 2025 - The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on 18 March launched a groundbreaking transformation of facilities of Technical Centre situated in the national capital, Abuja, to meet global standards.Funded by world football governing body, FIFA through its development programme, FIFA Forward, to the tune of USD 4,800,000, the expansion will include reconstruction of existing synthetic pitches, the addition of new natural and synthetic grass pitches, and the construction of a modern football...