International Basketball Association
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| Type: | Sport Federation |
| Industry: | Sport |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Headquarters: | Avenue Louis Casaï, 53 1216
Cointrin, Geneva |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Website: | www.fiba.com |
| Key People | |
| Yvan Mainini, President Patrick Baumann, Secretary General Markus Studer, COO | |
The International Basketball Association (FIBA)' formerly known as Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur is an independent association responsible for defining the rules of basketball and governing international basketball competitions. It is composed of 213 national basketball federations worldwide and its headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.[1]
New gTLD Application
On April 25, 2012, FIBA confirmed its application for the .basketball generic top level domain name (gTLD) via ICANN's New gTLD Program. Its main objective is to protect the sport, its stakeholders and its approximately 450 million players and fans worldwide. The association partnered with ROAR Domains LLC and Top Level Domains Holding Ltd. to prepare its application with ICANN, while Minds + Machines will provide its back-end registry solutions.[2]
Activities
The main activities of FIBA include: [3]
- Establish the official basketball rules, specifications of equipment and facilities. including the internal executive regulations for all international and Olympic competitions
- Responsible in controlling, governing and appointing international referees
- Regulates the transfer of players from one country to another
- Controls and governs all international competitions
The FIBA Administration
The daily operations and logistical aspects of the headquarters of the association in Geneva is supervised by the FIBA Administration. It is responsible in maintaining the secretarial services of the FIBA management, travel and hotel arrangements for the business trips of FIBA staffs, organizing basketball conferences and world congress, social events during Olympic Games and FIBA World championships and meetings, translation services, online and booklet publication, archive and historic records management and reception services. [4]
The FIBA Academy
In 2008, the association established the FIBA Academy to provide world-class academic programs and ensure that all the athletes, administrators, coaches, event organizers and other entities involved in the basketball business worldwide will have access to an educational center that caters to their needs and updated with the latest basketball trends and developments. The programs offered by the academy include:[5]
- FIBA Academy Manager's Programme
- Global MBA for Sport and Major Events
- Executive Residential programmes
- Flexible online learning
The FIBA Central Board
The FIBA Central Board is responsible in establishing the associations internal regulations. It is comprised of 23 members (22 have the right to vote) and they conduct their meeting twice a year. The current members of the Central Board include: [6]
- Yvan Mainini (France) President
- Horacio Muratore (Argentina) Vice President
- Patrick Baumann (Switzerland) Secretary General
- Borislav Stankovic (Serbia) Secretary General Emeritus
- Manfred Ströher (Germany) Treasurer
- Valerie Ackerman (USA)
- Sheik Saud Bin Ali Al-Thani (Qatar)
- Alphonse Bilé (Ivory Coast)
- Richard Carrión (Puerto Rico)
- Sergei Chernov (Russia)
- Bob Elphinston (Australia)
- Mabusa Eseka Dieudonne (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Alberto Garcia (Argentina)
- Salamatou Maiga (Mali)
- Usie Richards (US Virgin Islands)
- Jose Luis Saez Regalado (Spain)
- Xu Lan (China)
- Olafur Rafnsson (Iceland)
- Steve Smith (Australia)
- Lena Wallin-Kantzy (Sweden)
- Barbara Wheadon (New Zealand)
- Dato’ Yeoh Choo Hock (Malaysia)
- Nar Zanolin (Canada)
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