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Nike’s distributor in Brazil, which has rights to sell the official national team jerseys for the FIFA World Cup, is no longer allowing customers to order personalized jerseys with “Jesus,” “Christ,” or other Christian terms following complaints from African paganists this week.

Qatar World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman got his own interview shut down on Tuesday after saying that homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” warning a German broadcaster that gay soccer fans have to “accept our rules” if traveling to the repressive Middle East monarchy.

Qatar, hosts of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, have released a list of heavy restrictions for visitors and the media ahead of next month’s games.

The Premier League has brought back the BLM-inspired virtue signal of taking the knee before matches this week for an anti-racist campaign.

Footballer Benjamin Mendy, a defender for top English club Manchester City, is on trial accused of raping women as young as 17 in “panic rooms” at his countryside mansion.  

A player for the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) chose to miss a game on Friday night instead of wearing the “Pride” jersey her team was scheduled to wear.

A soccer game in Japan continued uninterrupted last week while an active volcano visibly erupted nearby, Chile’s CHVNoticias website reported on Wednesday, noting that all athletes, officials, and spectators of the event participated in the game as if nothing was amiss despite plumes of volcanic smoke gathering in the sky above the open-air soccer stadium.

A comical scene unfolded Saturday at Estadio La Granja in Curicó, Chile, when a dog decided to steal the show during a soccer game between Chile and Venezuela, OutKick.com reported Monday

Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Monday condemned a recent decision by FIFA World Cup organizers to change Taiwan to “Chinese Taipei” on an official Qatar government website granting spectators’ permits for the upcoming soccer tournament, the Taipei Times reported Wednesday.

New rules proposed by FIFA, is looking to erase testosterone requirements and would allow trans players to play without restrictions.

The German national football team not only took a knee prior to their match against England this week but also donned the shirts of the German women’s team to promote the women’s European Championship. The German national side wore the

England’s national football team was roundly booed in Hungary for taking the knee prior to what proved to be a 1-0 loss to the Central European country.

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) described the upcoming 2022 World Cup, scheduled to take place in repressive Qatar, as “a celebration of unity and diversity” this week after years of accusations of human rights atrocities in the country including forced labor used to build soccer facilities.

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has finally sold one of England’s biggest soccer clubs – Chelsea Football Club – for a record $3.2 billion. 

Fans charged the field and threw flares at players following St. Etienne’s 5-4 regulation loss to Auxerre on Sunday.

LeBron James jetted off to Paris for the recent Real Madrid vs. Liverpool game, but met with a hail of boos and chants of “Jordan was better”

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.