Blatter expected at Soccerex

Soccerex will kick up a notch this year, with Fifa president Sepp Blatter expected to take part in a one-to-one panel debate concerning the "6+5" rule and the 2010 Fifa World Cup. The world's biggest business-to-business soccer convention, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg in November, will feature panel discussions, exhibitions, a football festival, football workshops and a host of celebrity guests from the football world. The international convention is in its twelfth year and indications are that it will be bigger and better than last year's event, held at the same venue. Under the "6+5" rule, which the world football governing body is planning to implement, a club team must start a match with at least six players who would be eligible for the national team of the country in which the club is... [read full story]