TEL AVIV – As Qatar gears up to host the World Cup 2022, the Egyptian Al-Watan daily has accused the Gulf country of hatching a “wicked plot” together with the Muslim Brotherhood to destroy Egypt’s soccer teams.
Monday on ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” co-host Mike Wilbon reacted to England’s national soccer team losing 2-1 to underdog Iceland, calling it the country’s “worst day since Brexit.” “Let me spend a few seconds instead of piling on England more,
The Premier League season of 2016/17 promises to be gripping, enthralling, and well-played from beginning to end. In short, it will be everything 2015/16 was not.
A top Russian soccer official in Moscow praised the hundreds of Russian soccer fans who rampaged through the streets in two French towns wrecking havoc and attacking fans of rival teams. The official complimented the rowdy fans for “defending the honor” of Mother Russia.
An internationally known Iranian goalkeeper was banned for six months from Iran’s national soccer team, the Tehran-based Persepolis Football Club, after an image surfaced of him wearing a pair of yellow “SpongeBob SquarePants” trousers, inspired by the American animated TV series of the same name.
The investigation into corruption at the top of FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, alleges that officials entered into a “coordinated effort to enrich themselves through annual salary increases” to the tune of upwards to $80 million over the last five years they held their positions.
Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They
(AFP) – English football’s financial might was demonstrated anew on Thursday as business analysts Deloitte revealed that England’s 92 professional clubs generated record £4 billion ($5.8 billion, 5.2 billion euros) revenues in 2014-15. Fired by the all-powerful Premier League, which
(AFP) – Looming strikes on trains and planes are threatening to bring chaos to France less than two weeks before Euro 2016 kicks off, with unions standing firm Monday in demanding that controversial labour reforms are scrapped. As the head
New York sports radio talker Mike Francesa is admittedly no fan of the sport of soccer, and he didn’t let that disdain temper his criticism of Sports Illustrated for spending too many pages covering soccer’s Copa América tournament.
A video game created by students at Champlain College in 2010 is now being played around the world to teach children about healthy attitudes towards girls and women.
(AFP) – France is launching the final countdown to the European Championship finals where the star appeal of Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic risks being overshadowed by fears of a terrorist attack. Troops and extra police have been patrolling the
The Copa America is set to take place in the United States this year, and Argentinian television station TyC Sports has created an ad mocking Donald Trump over the fact that many South Americans will be coming into the country because he
Once a month we Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) get dragged to the Alsatian city of Strasbourg, which acts as home to the European Union’s (EU) second parliament (the first in Brussels). The trip is costly, time consuming, and many
After being arrested on a DUI charge in Oregon, U.S. Women’s soccer star Abby Wambach allegedly admitted to using cocaine and marijuana while a member of the U.S. team, court documents claim.
French emergency services carried out terrorist attack simulation exercises on Monday at selected fan zones and venues two months ahead of the 2016 European Championships. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Health Minister Marisol Touraine both assisted at the exercise at
On Thursday, five top players on the U.S. women’s soccer team filed a wage discrimination lawsuit against the team saying they are not being paid what they are worth. Now team officials have fired back a response strongly refuting the charges.
Five members of the World Cup and Olympic champion U.S. women’s soccer team have filed a wage discrimination lawsuit against team officials, according to court documents.
After President Obama let slip that his daughters were hoping to meet soccer star Lionel Messi, the player said even though the meeting didn’t work out he’d be “proud” to meet Obama and his family.
A group of men who appear to be organizers of today’s massive Anti-Donald Trump rally in New York City are thrilled they were captured saying they believed CNN’s coverage of the event was “great” because it made the chaotic protest that lead to dozens of clashes with the police out to be “nonviolent.”
The former head of international soccer’s governing body has filed an appeal to have his six-year suspension from the sport reversed.
A so-called “antifascist” group that supports illegal immigration is planning a rally against GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump this Saturday in New York City, the same day that a Black Lives Matter affiliated group that also supports illegal immigration is planning a rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
Danish sportswear company Hummel has designed a soccer jersey with a hijab for the Afghan women’s team so they can play the game while observing their faith.
A FIFA official has pleaded guilty to taking bribes, money laundering, and wire fraud in a far-reaching investigation that has resulted in indictments for 40 soccer officials.
Despite his candidate not receiving the final nod, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati praised the newly elected FIFA president as a man “committed to reform.”
The pro European Union (EU) political elite are being very quiet about what might happen to national identity, as they really do not want anger sports fans. But just as they’re keeping quiet about forthcoming regulation, and just as there was
European football’s governing body is set to penalise a Lokomotiv Moscow football player after he revealed a t-shirt depicting Vladimir Putin during a match in Turkey. Dmitri Tarasov caused considerable anger in Turkey after revealing the t-shirt, which shows a
U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo said the Zika outbreak in Brazil could keep her out of the Summer Olympics in August.
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s Sydney Leroux has announced that an unexpected, but blessed, event will keep her off the field during the upcoming 2016 Olympics in Rio.
The Raiders football organization is at a crossroads, and one influential radio host is suggesting that the team move from its home in Oakland to California’s capital city, Sacramento.
CNN released an interview on its YouTube page Friday with retired United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) star Abby Wambach conducted by network host Poppy Harlow. Wambach, the leading scorer in the history of international soccer, retired at the end of 2015
the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League filed a lawsuit against the city to stop the NFL from turning the lush, green fields next to Levi’s Stadium into a media base for Super Bowl 50.
While the rest of Europe hibernates over the Christmas holiday period, England indulges in an orgy of football, with Boxing Day the highlight of this secular and often maligned tradition. With barely any time to digest the Christmas turkey, teams
United States men’s national team midfielder Mix Diskerud, a Norwegian native, is striking back at famed soccer star Abby Wambach’s criticism that U.S. soccer has too many “foreign guys” imported into the sport.
Abby Wambach, one of America’s biggest soccer stars, retired from the American national team with a bang on Wednesday, slamming U.S. men’s coach Jurgen Klinsmann for for bringing too many “foreign guys” into American soccer. On the field, she left with more of a whimper in a 1-0 loss to China in the Superdome.
US authorities are investigating evidence indicating FIFA’s suspended president Sepp Blatter knew about $100 million (92 million euros) in bribes paid to former members of the football body, a BBC report said Sunday. The BBC investigation alleges that sports marketing
The Swiss government announced that two FIFA officials were detained in Zurich Thursday, confirming reports of new arrests in the broadening FIFA scandal, and said the pair were suspected of taking millions of dollars in bribes. “The high-ranking FIFA officials
English football fans took to the streets of London over the weekend to celebrate the ‘evaporation’ of ISIS’s chief executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, widely known as Jihadi John. “Jihadi John he’s f*cking dead, he had a bomb dropped on his head”,
The president of the Chilean soccer federation abruptly took a “medical leave” this week and flew to the U.S. to serve as an FBI informant into FIFA corruption, sources say.
Fans of Turkey’s national soccer team booed during the one minute of silence for the victims of the Paris attacks at the beginning of a match against Greece on Tuesday. The minute of silence was observed throughout European leagues to
