Like every start of the month, the selection of FrancsJeux events, sporting or institutional, not to be missed over the next four weeks.
10 and 11 April – Soccerex European Forum in Manchester. A major meeting for all players in football business, organized for the fourth time. For two days, we will notably meet the secretary general of UEFA, Giani Infantino, the boss of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Alexey Sorokin, but also the executive director of the Bundesliga, Christian Seifert, or even the former Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar became marketing director of Ajax Amsterdam.
15 to 19 April – AIPS Annual Congress in Sochi, Russia. The next Olympic city hosts the annual meeting of the International Sports Press Association. The opportunity for the journalists present to visit some of the sites of the 2014 Winter Games.
April 21 – London Marathon. After Paris (April 7), then Boston (April 15), London continues the trilogy of major spring marathons. The opportunity to return to the Olympic city, less than a year after the end of the Games.
April 21 – Palestine Marathon – An unprecedented event, the first in history organized in Palestine. Rich in symbols, the race will start from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where its finish will also be judged.
23 and 24 April – Peace and Sport Forum in Dubai. The first Forum of the Peace and Sport organization organized in the Gulf. We announce, among other speakers, the Moroccans Nawal El Moutawakel and Hicham El Guerrouj.
24 to 27 April – IOC World Conference on Sport for All in Lima, Peru. The list of IOC members present in Lima, for these four days of conferences and debates dedicated to health, physical education and well-being, is as long as an arm. In the lead, Jacques Rogge, Denis Oswald, Sam Ramsamy and Andrés Botero Phillipsbourne, also Minister of Sports of Colombia.
