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World Service,19 Sep 2014,28 mins

In Conversation with Jerome Champagne

World Football

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The FIFA Presidential candidate Jerome Champagne outlines his vision for the future of the game and talks about his chances of unseating Sepp Blatter. Once full of promise, has football in Syria been destroyed by Civil War? Former Syria international George Mourad and Syria's Under-16 coach Mohamed Al-Attar talk about conditions in the country. Also on the programme, the former Chelsea and Barcelona player Albert Ferrer discusses the challenages of coaching Cordoba, a team playing in La Liga for the first time in 42 years. And will the launch of a new Premier League in Hong Kong help attract big-name players? (Photo credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)

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