Soccer

Boris Johnson’s government is proposing new punishments for the “middle-class coke heads” fuelling “gang violence and turf wars”, such as requiring them to surrender their passports when their football team is playing abroad.

took to Twitter on Thursday to blast the New York Times for prioritizing international soccer while making the division-leading Yankees and Mets “invisible.”

Now we know what “inappropriate” behavior got Brazilian soccer player Marcelo fired from France’s Olympique Lyonnais soccer team.

LONDON (AP) — The coach of Northern Ireland’s women’s team apologized Wednesday for saying girls and women are susceptible to conceding multiple goals in a short space of time because they are “more emotional than men.”

Former Liverpool soccer player Dejan Lovren jumped to Twitter on Saturday to tell fans that he had canceled his subscription to Disney+.

A women’s soccer team in Orlando has apologized for removing a banner protesting Florida’s education bill.

Senegalese soccer fans used laser pointers to blind Egypt’s Mo Salah as he attempted a critical penalty kick during a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.

Nigerian soccer fans reacted to their team’s failure to reach the World Cup on Tuesday by storming the field and wrecking property before being tear-gassed by police.

LONDON (AP) — The English Premier League will disappear from Russian TV after suspending its deal with its state-owned broadcast partner after the invasion of Ukraine.

A stadium full of fans broke out in a stirring rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner as the Charlotte Football Club kicked off its home opener on Saturday.

Nearly two dozen spectators were injured in a large-scale riot at a professional soccer game in Central Mexico. Hundreds of people took to the field and rushed the stands to attack supporters of the opposing team.

As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway. 

Soccer’s governing body has reversed course and announced that Russia will be banned from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, has rejected calls to ban Russia’s national team from the coming World Cup tournament.

Brazilian players for two Ukraine soccer teams posted a video asking for help from the public to get them out of Ukraine.

UEFA will no longer stage this season’s Champions League final in St. Petersburg after Russia attacked Ukraine, The Associated Press has learned.

At least eight people died from injuries sustained during a stampede at a soccer stadium in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Monday, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

An Irish man could get up to 20 years in a U.S. prison for alleged behavior on a transatlantic flight, including mooning a flight attendant.

UK sports fans may have started their own ‘let’s go Brandon’ movement as sentiment turns against Britain’s restriction-loving Prime Minister.

A New Jersey native has given up her dream of attending Rutgers over the school’s coronavirus vaccination mandate.

A girl and her mother are suing a Indiana school district for refusing to treat her as a boy, including lettng her use the boy’s bathroom.

TOKYO (AP) – Portuguese health authorities said Monday they have identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant believed to be more contagious, among team members of a professional soccer club.

The West Ham soccer team banned two supporters from attending its matches after a group of the club’s fans were filmed singing an anti-Semitic song as a Jewish man walked on a plane.

BERLIN — The first soccer game involving an Israeli team at the stadium built for the 1936 Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany was marred Thursday by antisemitic abuse aimed at visiting fans.

Dozens of players from Afghanistan’s junior national women’s soccer team successfully fled Afghanistan and arrived in neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday, with more of their fellow teammates due to arrive on Thursday, Reuters reported.

The plight of girls and women living under Taliban rule and Sharia Law in Afghanistan has forced a female youth soccer team to cross the border into Pakistan.

Brazilian health officials on Sunday halted a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Sao Paulo between Brazil and Argentina minutes after it started, accusing four Argentine players of violating Brazil’s Chinese coronavirus quarantine rules, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Fans, players, security, and coaches got involved in a wild fight during the French Ligue 1 soccer Matchup between Marseille and Nice.

The former captain of the Afghanistan Women’s National Soccer Team is warning her fellow players still in Afghanistan to delete all social media, burn uniforms, and discard their soccer gear to avoid retaliation by the radical Islamist Taliban.

A player for Afghanistan’s national soccer team reportedly died in a U.S. plane as he desperately tried to escape the country Sunday.

The U.S. Women’s team claimed a bronze medal after beating Australia’s team with a 4-3 victory.

LONDON (AP) – British police said Thursday they have made 11 arrests in connection with the online racial abuse of England soccer players following their team’s loss to Italy in the final of the European Championship last month.

There will be no gold medal chance for the U.S. women’s soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics after they went down to Canada early Monday morning.

Silent stadiums and lack of fans at the Tokyo Olympics are leaving Megan Rapinoe underwhelmed, the U.S. women’s soccer captain confessed Saturday.

Britain’s knee-taking women’s football (soccer) team has been left “devastating” after being knocked out of the Tokyo Olympics by the Australian side, which declined to perform the Black Lives Matter-inspired gesture.

Following the U.S. Woman’s Olympic team’s horrible loss to Sweden the other night after taking a knee for BLM, social justice warrior Megan Rapinoe said women’s sports “still needs to get better” criticism.

People in the United Kingdom who have not been “fully vaccinated” are reportedly set to be prohibited from attending Premier League football matches.

Australia women’s soccer team linked arms and posed in a group photograph with an Aboriginal flag rather than the national flag ahead of their Olympic Games opening group game against New Zealand on Wednesday night.

Diane Abbott and a group of leftist protesters “took the knee” outside of Downing Street on in “solidarity” with black British footballers.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has been invited to host a new show on GB News four days a week – shortly after the broadcaster temporarily dropped to “zero” viewers when a host took the knee in solidarity with BLM-inspired footballers.