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Soccer Journalist Carlos Orduz was crushed by a falling section of a TV set in shocking video that has gone viral this week.

English football club Brentford FC have decided to give up kneeling to Black Lives Matter before games, as players “no longer believe that this is having an impact”. 

The sale of alcohol at soccer’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar is going to be limited to those who purchase top-of-the-line premium hospitality packages, organizers said Monday, confirming the sport’s strict adherance to government guidelines that make it a crime to be intoxicated in public.

U.S. soccer star Carli Lloyd felt the need to explain why she dared to stand for the nation anthem during this week’s game.

Colombian soccer fans took to the streets of Cali on Sunday evening to celebrate their team’s success in violation of the country’s latest lockdown measures in response to the Chinese coronavirus.

French soccer star Antoine Griezmann, who played for the winning team in the 2018 World Cup and is currently a forward for Barcelona, terminated his relationship with Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Thursday.

The Stevenage FC Women’s team will be sponsored by Burger King, just like the men’s side. However, unlike the men’s team, the front of their shirts will not say Burger King.

Police and mourners clashed in Buenos Aires on Thursday at the funeral of soccer star Diego Armando Maradona as thousands of people physically competed to pay their respects.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60.

The chairman of a Welsh football club is launching an investigation into why players did not kneel to Black Lives Matter ahead of a match.

WNBA star Sue Bird recently took a swipe at soccer saying it is “generally” made up of “cute little white girls.”

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Portuguese soccer federation said Tuesday.

A German soccer team has been thrashed 37-0 because its players insisted on observing rules about ‘social distancing.’

English Premier League (EPL) footballers obeyed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on the launch day of the 2020/21 season, with players taking a knee in all four of Saturday’s top-flight fixtures.

PARIS (AP) – Paris police arrested 148 people as Paris Saint-Germain soccer fans clashed with officers and smashed cars and store windows after the club lost the Champions League final in Lisbon. Hundreds of fans were also fined for not

LONDON (AP) – Players in English football will be banned for six to 12 games for discriminatory conduct under new Football Association sanctioning guidelines.

West Midlands Police arrested a 12-year-old boy on Sunday for sending racist messages to soccer star Wilfried Zaha calling him a “black c***” and referencing the Klu Klux Klan.

The Philadelphia Union donned shirts bearing the names of black people killed by the police for the MLS tournament in Orlando, Florida.

England’s Premier League Football has attempted to distance itself from the “political movement” of Black Lives Matter, after the sporting body had devoted games to the far-left organisation by taking the knee and wearing shirts that replaced players’ names with ‘Black Lives Matter’.

A Cambridge University professor has boasted that she was promoted after tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” — after a man who flew a banner saying they do matter over a football match in the wake a suspected terrorist attack was fired.

Burnley Football Club has condemned an “offensive” banner saying “White Lives Matter Burnley!” which was flown over a match after three white people were stabbed to death in Reading, and vowed to “work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible”.

“I won’t be watching much anymore!” Trump wrote.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean soccer club is facing penalties, including expulsion from its own stadium, for putting sex dolls in empty seats during a match last weekend.

A South Korean football team has apologized for using dozens of sex dolls as faux fans to fill its stands during the coronavirus scare.

(AFP) — Top-flight football in Germany kicked off again on the weekend, becoming the first major sports league in the world to resume play, as parts of Europe took more tentative steps towards normality after the devastation unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.

ROME (AP) — The 20 teams in Serie A agreed Wednesday to resume competition on June 13 in empty stadiums.

LONDON (AP) — The path to the Premier League resuming was eased Monday by the government saying elite sports will be allowed to resume in England in June if there is no new spike in coronavirus infections.

TEL AVIV – The city of Tel Aviv is considering allowing restaurants and cafes to reopen as early as next weekend, provided they adhere to certain restrictions including single-use menus, hand sanitizers on every table and thorough disinfection procedures.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s soccer league is expected to resume matches, sans spectators, in coming weeks after a two and a half month layoff,  according to a new agreement signed Wednesday between the Health Ministry and league officials.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — They don’t chant, they don’t move, and they mostly wear the wrong colors. They’re not even real.

ESPN currently features only one “top event” on its sports ticker, as of Tuesday morning: a soccer match between Uganda and Zambia, which was scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

Premier League football manager Jurgen Klopp declined to give reporters his opinion on the Wuhan coronavirus, saying the opinions of “famous people” on politics and pandemics are “not important”.

JERUSALEM – Thousands of Israeli soccer fans and high school students were instructed to go into quarantine after being exposed to coronavirus as the total of confirmed cases in the country climbed to 15 on Wednesday.

LONDON (AP) — Children up to the age of 12 will be banned from heading a soccer ball in practice sessions in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland as authorities look to address the potential long-term impact on health of head injuries.

A French soccer player was handed a five-year ban for biting another player’s penis, causing severe lacerations, a report says.

A Major League Soccer coach has resigned his position after being heard singing the n-word in a song, in his team’s locker room.