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Why rainbow armbands are dividing opinion at Women's Euro 2025

July 20, 2025 8:32 pm

France captain Griedge Mbock Bathy has worn the regular band rather than the rainbow armband. So has Spain's Irene Paredes. Italy's Cristiana Girelli also sported the regular armband.

Donald Trump jokes about passing executive order to relabel 'soccer' to 'football' in USA; Soccer is an Oxford University British coinage

July 18, 2025 4:23 pm

In an interview with DAZN, US President declared, "It can be done" after he was asked if an executive order could be passed calling it 'only football'.

Watch: Lionel Messi’s assist splits defence wide open and leads to a goal... for the opposition team

July 08, 2025 5:51 pm

Just in case fans were starting to think that Messi is human after all, he came roaring back into the game, scoring two goals, and assisting another one (this time to his own teammate) to help Inter Miami defeat CF Montreal 4-1

After a 26-year ban, South Korean clubs will be allowed to sign foreign goalkeepers

June 21, 2025 2:58 pm

When the league banned its clubs from registering foreign players as keepers in 1999, it had eight teams. The reason back then was that the domestic keepers did not get enough playing time.

In heartbreaking, last-minute loss, Panama announce themselves as a new force in Central American football

March 24, 2025 3:00 pm

While final glory eluded them, Panama could reflect on a tournament where they announced themselves as a genuinely emerging force in Central American football.

Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer suffers calf tear while celebrating goal

March 07, 2025 12:14 am

It's not the first bizarre injury Neuer has suffered. He broke his leg while skiing after the 2022 World Cup

No more free lunches at Manchester United as club makes cost-cutting moves that include laying off up to 200 employees

February 25, 2025 12:20 am

As part of cost-cutting measures at Manchester United, not just at Old Trafford, but at Carrington training base also, only players will receive lunch while staff members will be offered soup and bread. The club hopes to save £1million by ending free lunches.

Ex-Spain football coach tried to convince Jenni Hermoso to downplay Luis Rubiales kissing her on mouth

February 12, 2025 9:00 pm

Rubiales, who took the stand on Tuesday, denies charges of sexual assault and coercion, insisting the kiss was consensual, while Hermoso said it was not.

Santos vs Botafogo: Neymar plays for 52 minutes on birthday in return from ACL injury

February 06, 2025 9:20 am

Once the final whistle was blown in the Santos vs Botafogo game, players from the visiting team raced to take pictures with Neymar.

Neymar's contract with Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal terminated; Striker could join Santos again

January 28, 2025 6:38 pm

Brazilian media has reported that Neymar and his father are interested in a six-month return to his boyhood club Santos, where he achieved national fame before joining Barcelona.

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Somalia's first female soccer club score a breakthrough for gender equality

October 05, 2018 8:02 am

Mogadishu in Somalia has over one hundred private soccer fields that are hired out day and night to amateur male teams. Mohamed said many were off limits for her two teams of mainly 16-18-year-olds, who play for two hours every day at a cost of $14

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