The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) teams up with marine conservation group Ghost Fishing Foundation on a sustainability project. Good Net was launched on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, the site of the beach volleyball tournament for the 2016 Olympics. ...
In an escalation of ongoing disputes over gender discrimination between the US women’s national team and US Soccer, the players have now sued their employer. Any hopes that these issues were close to resolution have now been dashed. Who on the ...
The game is about glory, a wise man once said. For many years it has been about money, too. Right now an updated version of Danny Blanchflower’s famous quote would point out something else: that the ...
Bounding into a meeting room with a smile at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters, Federico Addiechi, the governing body’s head of sustainability and diversity, greets SSJ with some good news. Hakeem al-Araibi, the dissident footballer from Bahrain, has finally been released from the Thai ...
Arsenal‘s women’s team will no longer be called ‘Arsenal Ladies’ and will instead be referred to as, simply, Arsenal. In what the club describes as “important and progressive step”, the women’s team has been formally renamed Arsenal Women ...
The sports sector must become more targeted a less vague if it wants to play a central role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the Commonwealth Secretariat’s head of sport for development and peace. Oliver Dudfield said that ...
An ongoing project that is being spearheaded by the Malta Football Association brings Maltese and migrants together on the pitch for the first time. Project co-ordinator Peter Busuttil tells Ramona Depares that it’s all about creating a community. It’s Wednesday evening and the Mqabba football ...
The Chelsea football club owner, Roman Abramovich, and leading players have launched a video and social media campaign to raise awareness of the Holocaust, under the slogan “We Remember”. The campaign has been launched in the run-up to ...
FIFA has addressed a letter to the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand concerning the situation of the player Hakeem Al Araibi. The letter can be found here. ...
Every month, as part of its #EqualGame campaign, UEFA focuses on a person from one of its 55 member associations. This person is an example of how football promotes inclusion, accessibility and diversity; his or her story exemplifies how disability, ...
