Longlist Writing Best Column 2024
LAUSANNE, March 20, 2025 - The AIPS Sport Media Awards are pleased to announce the longlist for the Writing Best Column category.
The longlist represents the first judging stage and is based on the average ratings of the AIPS panel of specialists, the Executive Committee members and the members of the Jury.
Find out more about the judging stages HERE.
Participants with two submissions in the longlist can find both listed side by side. Below are the selected works, in alphabetical order of country:
Disclaimer: All names and information have been published as we have received them, for any corrections please contact us at info@aipsmedia.com or send us a direct message on social media @aipsmedia.
WRITING BEST COLUMN
Nazim Bessol (Algeria), La médaille de la mémoire - Botola
Maher Mezahi (Algeria), Rolling with the punches - Africa Is A Country
Andres Burgo (Argentina), Cada vez más jugadores son captados por el negocio de apuestas y salen a la cancha a perder - El Diario Ar
Sebastian Fest (Argentina), The sustainable cup scam at the Paris Olympics that explains the photo of Ceccon sleeping on the grass - Relevo.com
Cristian Grosso (Argentina)*, La muerte de César Luis Menotti: el legado que dejó la convivencia entre el sabio y el revolucionari | La muerte de César Luis Menotti: Así vivió sus últimos años - Diario La Nación
Marcela Mora y araujo (Argentina), El Exito es Un Abismo - Revista Anfibia
Ariel Scher (Argentina), Menotti, ese legado poético - Revista Acción
Demétrio Prado (Brazil), The strength of a woman; Edinanci asks herself: 'Did I really deserve to go through this?' - UOL
Shireen Ahmed (Canada) French hijab ban in sports called a 'shameful moment' as it prepares to host Olympics - CBC Sports
Robert Livingstone (Canada), Moving Olympic cricket from Los Angeles to New York gives us rare window into what’s really going on - GamesBids.com
Esteban Abarzua (Chile), Francisca Crovetto Shoots to the Future - Las Ultimas Noticias
Tianhao Shen (China), A United Euro 2024, an Ununited Europe - Titan Sports
Jose Gabriel Celis Baron (Colombia), ¿El problema en las ruedas de prensa del FPC son los medios partidarios? - Rotonda Deportiva
Johnattan Farouk Caballero Hernández (Colombia)*, El Balón de Oro de Linda Caicedo | Lo que le debo al "Búcaros" de Dudamel - El Espectador. Director Fidel Cano.
Roberto Ricardo Vasconcellos (Ecuador), Ecuador: Periodismo deportivo ‘romántico’ e inteligente vs. periodismo ‘táctico’ - El Universo
Alaa Abdel-ghani (Egypt), Home stadium without a home | The country that’s undeterred - Al-Ahram Newspaper
Hasan Elsaadny (Egypt), Football Casino.. Betting in Egypt is a cancer that invades cafes and homes.. Murders and thefts, the bankruptcy bill.. | “Loss Brokers”... We reveal, by name, the details of smuggling minor players to Europe. - Youm7.com
Jean-Michel Brochen (France), Terrain meurtri - L'Equipe Le Magazine
Muftawu Nabila Abdulai (Ghana) 2022 World Cup: GFA declares $7.9m prize money instead of $9m - Joy FM/JoyNews
Fiifi Anaman (Ghana), Why the Black Stars deserve to fail - Africa Is A Country
Péter Csillag (Hungary), The discarded football poem - Nemzeti Sport
Navid Mortezaei (Iran), Oh, football; the story of the collapse of the last bastion of people's happiness - Tasvir8
Philip Lanigan (Ireland), When sport speaks truth to power - Irish Daily Mail
Lorenzo Longhi (Italy), In Schillaci c'era tutto - Schillaci, the last of his kind - Treccani
Adil Azeroual (Morocco), La Botola des Affranchis - Le360 Sport
Noah Banjo (Nigeria), Forget Europe’s finesse, AFCON is where mental fortitude and passion rule the pitch - Football411
Hossam Ezzedine Hamdan (Palestine), sport can be even under fire - al- ayyam daily news paper
Cătălin Țepelin (Romania), Sport is for pleasure, not by fear - How to protect our children from abuse in sport - GOLAZO.ro
Cătălin Tolontan (Romania), "Football fans converted into gamblers" - How some want to change the role of the media - GOLAZO.ro
Nikolay Yaremenko (Russia), Sports in parallel reality - RosBalt
Fawaz Alshareef (Saudi Arabia), Bread on Bach and Gianni's table - Okaz newspaper
Awad Alsugour (Saudi Arabia), Al-Qurashi... his body was burned, his bones were shattered, and he lost his memory... and he returned with gold - Arriyadiyah newspaper
Salvador Rodríguez Moya (Spain), Racismo gitano en el fútbol internacional - Canal Sur Radio y TV
Orfeo Suárez (Spain)*, The French May of Aitana | Luther King and Pelé in the same t-shirt - El Mundo
Nahed Albageir (Sudan), Discrimination against women... difficulties in the profession of troubles - Awalalnahar
Mohamed Osman Adam (Sudan), In Sudan, once more sports transcend all tragedies, bring hope to people - The Pan-African News Agency (PANA)
Tariq Miri (Syria), A torn cruciate ligament ends a player's career... This is how Syrian clubs and federations avoid treating athletes... - Sham FM Radio / TV
Oliver Brown (UK), I was barred from big fight after criticising Saudi sportswashing - The Daily Telegraph
Denis Devlin (UK), Are We Still In The Middle Of The Global Football Cold War? - Pro Sport Media Group
Fred Garratt-Stanley (UK), ‘North Korea can own a club’: How fans grew to defend sportswashing - The Guardian
Steve Menary (UK), Greek Tragedy - Josimar
Emma Smith (UK), Transgender chess decision: New Fide rules criticised by players but welcomed by committee chair - BBC Sport
Fermín Méndez (Uruguay), La espina y la flor: a la memoria de Juan Izquierdo - La diaria
Vitas Carosella (USA), Fossil Fuel Companies Spend $5.6 Billion To Advertise in Sports - Forbes
Paul Fein (USA), "For The Love of the Game" - Sportstar