On Thursday, 19 April 2012, Joseph S. Blatter officially endowed a Chair in Cartilage Regeneration at ETH Zürich University. In a subsequent panel discussion, the FIFA President emphasised the vital importance of increased support for the topic ...
FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jiri Dvorak, has explained what world football's governing body is doing with regards to cardiac arrest cases, following the recent collapse of Fabrice Muamba.
The Solomon Islands is the latest nation set to benefit from FIFA’s '11 for Health' programme following the recent visit by FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer and Chairman of the FIFA Medical and Research Centre, Professor Jiri Dvorak.
FIFA’s medical experts are hoping to add a new weapon to their armoury in the fight against doping by using footballers’ individual steroid profiles as a smarter way of catching potential cheats.
FIFA’s bid to spread the positive message of its ’11 for Health’ programme has continued this month, with Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia all playing host to a high-level delegation from FIFA’s Medical department.
FIFA has joined forces with the German Football Association to undertake research which will investigate whether the “11+” warm-up programme could also help to protect veteran players from injury.
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