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.
“Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis showed his support for England’s three black soccer players who became the target of online abuse after they missed a series of penalty kicks, leading England to lose to Italy in the European Championships.
(AP) — The British women’s soccer team will take a knee before kickoff at the Tokyo Olympics.
Police have said that graffiti sprayed on a mural of Marcus Rashford after the England football player missed a penalty in the Euro 2020 finals against Italy is “not believed to be of a racial nature”, contradicting BBC reporting.
Britons who commit “online racism” will be barred from attending football matches Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday.
LONDON (AP) — Three Black players who missed penalty kicks for England in the decisive European Championship shootout against Italy on Sunday night were subjected to racist abuse online, prompting the English Football Association to issue a statement condemning the language used against the players.
Brexit champion Nigel Farage said the European Union could not “bear the thought of Brexit Britain” succeeding after a spokesman for European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said she wants Italy to beat England in the European Football Championship final.
Small children cheering the English national football (soccer) team as it makes its way through the UEFA European Football Championship have been derided as a “sea of aggressive white faces” on social media.
(AP) — Stadium security in Baku appeared to confiscate a rainbow flag from two Danish fans ahead of the European Championship quarterfinal match between the Czech Republic and Denmark.
Carl Nassib was the first active NFL player to come out as gay after he made the announcement on Monday after he “agonized over this moment for the last 15 years.”
British fans erupted in boos when their players took a knee during their national anthem ahead of Sundays European Championship game.
Brexit leader Nigel Leader has had harsh words for England’s national football (soccer) team taking the knee for the Black Lives Matter movement during the belated UEFA European Football Championship 2020.
COPENHAGEN (AP) — The European Championship game between Denmark and Finland was suspended Saturday after Christian Eriksen needed urgent medical attention on the field near the end of the first half.
The U.S. Men’s Soccer Team game against Mexico was briefly shut down Sunday over waves of anti-gay chants and objects thrown on the field.
A fan jumped over a stadium railing while trying to avoid security after the USA-Mexico game Sunday night in Denver.
England’s national football (soccer) team remains “totally united” on kneeling for Black Lives Matter going into the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, but are being met with boos by fans.
The president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), the regional branch of FIFA on the continent, announced on Monday that its Copa América soccer tournament would move from Argentina to Brazil over Chinese coronavirus concerns.
Luca Robert Lewis, a member of pro soccer team the New York Red Bulls, claims that his life was threatened by Palestinian supporters.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – German soccer federation president Fritz Keller resigned Monday, nearly a month after he compared one of the organization’s vice presidents to a Nazi-era judge.
Everyone in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, who has met 10-year-old Luna Perrone knows she can usually be found on the soccer or softball field.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) – In an unprecedented moment for the world’s richest soccer competition, the Premier League was forced to abandon one of the biggest matches of the season after an invasion of Old Trafford by Manchester United fans.
A professional soccer team from Toronto had their practice session in Orlando, Florida, interrupted by a “massive alligator” that made its way onto the field, according to a video.
The Polish national football team refused to take a knee for Black Lives Matter ahead of their match with England this week, while the English players knelt as usual.
Hundreds of Illegal alien minors were welcomed this week at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas, with hot meals and soccer games.
The Norwegian national football team donned shirts for their first World Cup 2022 qualifying match to criticise host nation Qatar over alleged human rights abuses, as Norwegian clubs call for a boycott.
