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The Sports Park Stožice integrates a football stadium and a multi-purpose sports hall with a big shopping centre, covered by the artificial landscape of the recreational park, which makes Sports Park Stožice a hybrid project. According to plans, the Sports Park Stožice in Ljubljana -Slovenia, will be built in less than two years - by 30 June 2010.

Its implementation is the result of the public-private partnership between the City of Ljubljana and the Grep development company. The Sports Park Stožice integrates a football stadium and a multi-purpose sports hall with a big shopping centre, covered by the artificial landscape of the recreational park. As a result 182,000sqm Sports Park Stožice becomes one of the major focal points of Ljubljana’s urban life, attracting people of different interests and generation both during the daytime and in the evenings.

The sports hall and the football stadium, together with the big monolithic, prism-shaped residential towers of the BS3 neighbourhood, the World Trade Centre and Smelt buildings on the west side, and the forest island on the east side, create a cluster of recognisable iconic structures of the north-eastern entrance into the city.

Konami offer the possibility to download the new England kit for Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 on the day of the England kit launch on 28 March.

At the same time as England’s eleven step out to take on Slovakia at wembley, you'll be able to kit out your virtual England team in Umbro's new threads on PS3, Xbox 360 or PC via an official download.

“Konami is extremely proud of its status as the official video game of the England team, and this download showcases the strength of our relationship with The FA and Umbro,” commented Jon Murphy, PES Team Leader for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH.“Our Japanese team has been working closely with both parties to ensure the innovative new kit is faithfully recreated in the game, and we are delighted to be able to offer it as a free download to our millions of fans on the day it is revealed for the first time.”

“The FA is delighted to be working with Konami and Umbro to deliver fans of the England team the new strip in an inventive manner,” said Sean McAuliffe, Head of Business Development at The FA.“This further demonstrates our ability to leverage our commercial relationships in creative and engaging ways.”

“We are extremely excited to be working with Konami on this project and being the first to launch a new kit download during the season in PES 2009,” added Tim Parkinson, Umbro Chief Marketing Officer.“Umbro has a rich heritage in football and innovation has always been at the heart of the brand. The exclusive download with Konami is just another innovative step for Umbro. This and the ongoing relationship with Konami presented an opportunity to do something radically different around the launch of the kit.”

Fans of the series often make "option files" which modify all player names into those of their real life counterparts, as well as including transfers from the latest transfer window and, occasionally, altered stats of more obscure players whose in-game attributes do not precisely replicate their real life skills.

The AFC Asian Cup 2011’s official emblem was unveiled in the capital of host city Qatar.

An AFC delegation led by AFC Executive Committee members General Farouk Bouzo and Saif Al Maskery, joined members of the Local Organising Committee and media representatives to grace the occasion as the countdown for AFC’s signature tournament started in earnest.

“The AFC Asian Cup is Asia’s biggest football event and in less than two years it comes to these shores,” said General Farouk Bouzo, a member of the AFC Executive Committee.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has unveiled new logos of the Confederation and its competitions as part of efforts to enhance its corporate identity.

The latest development is line with the modernization of the Confederation’s visual identity.

French design company Leroy Tremblot won the competition to renew the logos used by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

Umbro published the first part of a series of articles about some of the people behind new England kit, ahead of its launch on 28th March.

Chris Hunt talks to Umbro senior designer David Blanch about how the design process got started. 

Although David is in his tenth year of involvement with the England football kit, he tells journalist Chris Hunt that this time around there was the opportunity to create something really special with a completely different creative focus.

Read the interview here

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