Barcelona win ECA club of the year award.

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Spanish football outfit, Barcelona have been crowned club of the Year by the European Club
Association (ECA). Needless to say the Camp Nou giants clinched the award based on their phenomenal performance; ‎ winning the Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey last season. Now in it’s 6th season, the event was set up in 2010  to acknowledge outstanding club performance.
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The Best Community and Social Responsibility Programme Award went to Arsenal for their efforts in working with the local London community to tackle youth ‎unemployment .
Ukrainian club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, picked the 2015 Best Sporting Progress Award for “their significant progress in European competition during the 2014/15 season”.
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The fourth ECA award for 2015, Best Achievement went to Estonian side Levadia Tallinn for their “Together we move” scheme aimed at improving stadium accessibility for fans who require assistance dogs.‎

2014 World Cup: Bayern Munich earns biggest share of FIFA cash.

According to figures released by the European Club Association on Thursday, German sports club, ‎Bayern Munich has earned the biggest share of the $70m FIFA cash handed out to clubs whose players performed at the 2014 World Cup.
The club was compensated with ‎$1,734,367 for releasing their players for the tournament. Real Madrid, Chelsea and Barcelona earned 
$1,297,800, $1,253,233, and $1,191,167 respectively.
FIFA paid 396 clubs from 57 countries represented at the sporting event. Manchester United, Napoli, Arsenal, Juventus and Manchester City also earned at least $1million.
They also paid $2,800 for each day players who were on official national team duty before and during the World Cup.
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