15 Questions with Chukwuka Monye

Flames engulfed Hongkou Football Stadium on Tuesday, the home grounds for Chinese Super League team Shanghai Shenhua.

Bashir Ama was a people smuggler in Agadez, a desert city in Niger known until recently as the people-smuggling capital of Africa. But conditions have changed, and Bashir Ama has opted to fund a football team instead.

Eyewitness footage shows a fire burning and emergency services at the aftermath of the crash.

Chukwuka Monye has always been a natural with leadership roles and excellence. Although one might think that he had his future set, Monye who refers to himself as a “local man” says that his interest in business was met with some opposition. We caught up with the Managing Partner of Ciuci Consulting and threw 15 spur-of-the-moment questions his way, from his funniest childhood memory, right down to his favourite football club, and much more.

Behind the scenes for Chukwuka Monye: Life of a people builder

Vinai Venkatesham, managing director at Arsenal Football Club, discusses the importance of Asia to the club, competition with other leagues for fans, his strategy for driving revenue, signing new players and his expansion plans for China. He speaks exclusively on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”

German second division club St. Pauli have asked police why they have appeared alongside jihadi and far-right groups on a UK counterterrorism guide. The club are renowned for their activism and their fans are baffled.

Victims and neighbours of Grenfell tower, a London tower block ripped through by a blaze four years ago, have gathered to create a football team, the Grenfell Athletic FC, whose logo represents a dragon protecting the tower. The team is "a cure" for survivors whose mental health he feared for, says coach Rupert Taylor, as well as a way to remember and honour the people who lost their lives in the fire.

Fans of European giants Real Madrid and Inter Milan will see their teams face unusual competition this autumn: a club from a tiny separatist region in one of Europe's least known countries, Moldova. After a couple of failed attempts, Sheriff FC is making its debut in the group stage of Europe's top football competition this year, becoming the first team ever from the ex-Soviet country to reach the Champions League itself. Sheriff FC hails from Transnistria, a Russian-speaking region which broke away from Moldova after a brief civil war following the collapse of the Soviet Union.