Respect, consideration and tolerance. These three values encapsulate the conditions under which experts from 44 football associations (FAs) came together in the Netherlands for UEFA Study Group on the topic of Football for All Abilities. Practical demonstrations from top-class athletes and ...
Elda Cervantes has practised taekwondo and soccer since she was five years old. By the time she was 16, she was playing professional soccer in Mexico, at a time when there was no dedicated efforts to secure equal recognition or ...
UEFA’s HatTrick assistance programme has been a major catalyst in the impressive showing of Europe’s national teams at the FIFA World Cup in Russia Europe has just enjoyed a World Cup to remember – this continent provided six of the eight ...
The Croatian national team will donate the entirety of the World Cup prize money to a special fund for children, it has emerged. In Russia, Zlatko Dalić’s side had a fairytale run to the final, where they were beaten 4-2 by ...
“People have tried to stop me from playing,” said Riziki Abdallah, sitting in her mother’s humble home in the village of Dole in Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. “They say, ‘Don’t play soccer, soccer ...
Behind the veneer of Russia’s smooth-running World Cup are legions of migrant workers from Central Asia, who built the stadiums and keep them running, staff concession stands, and clean up after fans who revel through city streets. They are among millions ...
Sean Hargrave is a self-declared football obsessive, but when he sat down to watch the opening match of the 2018 World Cup he couldn’t tell one team from the other. He wasn’t the only one struggling. Roars of frustration jumped ...
Pelé’s prediction that an African team would win the World Cup before the turn of the 21st century ended up wide of the mark, and this year’s tournament in Russia marked the first time since 1982 that none ...
The children trapped inside a cave in Thailand have been invited to the World Cup final by FIFA president Gianni Infantino. This week, he sent a letter to Somyot Poompanmoung, president of the Thailand Football Federation, extending the invitation to ...
MOSCOW: Migrants from Africa and Asia staged their own version of the World Cup in Moscow on Tuesday, playing soccer matches in Red Square in an event held to highlight challenges faced by refugees in Russia. The games were organised by ...
