FIFA-backed students sent out to help run world sports
(WorldNews Sport)

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (AP) - It`s the Swiss finishing school that has prepared hundreds of post-graduate students to lead, manage and litigate world sports. Graduates have later headed campaigns to host soccer`s World Cup, run Olympic sports federations, and prosecuted landmark cases in international sports law. Known as the FIFA Master course, it has for 20 years been a discreet gift to sports organizations from soccer`s world body that has renewed multi-million dollar funding each year regardless of what turmoil it was in. At a picturesque lake-side campus of the University of Neuchâtel, 28 students from more than 20 countries this month completed their studies as the class of 2019....