Chinese netizens claim: Messi is one of them
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar ended on December 18. Lionel Messi led Argentina to defeat defending champions France to win the championship and finally realize his dream of lifting up the World Cup Gold Cup. Fans from all over the world celebrate his glory. However, amid the cheers, some Chinese netizens say that ...
Fixed match! Former world champion said she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final
Former Chinese badminton star Ye Zhaoying revealed on August 27 that when she participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, she was ordered to lose to another Chinese player - Gong Zhichao in the semi-finals. and must not tire Gong so that she could be at her best for the next ...
Jordan demands ‘gender check’ of Iranian women’s soccer team’s goalie
After losing to Iran in a Women's Asian Cup qualifier, Jordan has demanded a gender test. The Jordan Football Association (JFA) has requested that the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) investigate the gender of an Iranian football player, the New York Post reported.In response to the JFA's request for a "gender verification ...
‘We’ve got our club back’: Newcastle fans take to the streets to celebrate the end of Mike Ashley’s 14–year reign and Saudi takeover
Outside St James' Park, ecstatic supporters greeted the news of Newcastle United's takeover by a Saudi Arabia-led consortium with beer, hugs, and chants of "we've got our club back." The purchase put an end to owner Mike Ashley's profoundly unpopular rule, which had long been marred by what many viewed as ...
Kabul airport: National youth team footballer Zaki Anwari ‘dies in fall’ from underbelly of a C-17 plane
Zaki Anwari, one of the victims who clung to the underbelly of a C-17 Globemaster airplane, perished after falling from the sky. Afghanistan's General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports announced the terrible news on Facebook. A swarm of people can be seen rushing alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft ...
Former captain of Afghan women’s soccer team advises players to hide for safety
Fearing what the Taliban have done and will do to women, the former leader of the Afghan women's soccer team has urged players to erase social media, remove public profiles, and burn their national team uniforms. Khalida Popal, who now lives in Copenhagen, said she had always encouraged young women to ...
Trump: ‘wokesters’ on US women’s soccer team lost Olympic gold
Donald Trump chastised the U.S. Women's Soccer Squad on Aug. 5. The former president blamed the team's "woke" politics for only winning bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. "If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of leftist maniacs, was not woke they would have won the gold medal instead of ...
European CDC: nearly 2,500 cases of COVID-19 are related to the EURO 2020 soccer tournament
According to European health officials, around 2,500 COVID-19 infections have been related to participation in the European Championship soccer tournament.The European Centers for Disease Prevention and Control's weekly disease threat report showed that as of July 1, seven countries had reported a total of 2,472 infections associated with the matches. ...
Two players turning away during anthem causes outrage, soccer federation says they weren’t protesting
Several U.S. soccer players had caused controversy when seen on video turning away from the whole team when a World War II veteran played the national anthem ahead of the Olympic send-off match versus Mexico on Monday, July 5. ESPN shared the video on Twitter, showing 98-year-old veteran Pete DuPré playing ...
Liverpool star Sadio Mane donates $693,000 to build the first hospital in his hometown in Senegal
Sadio Mané is a Senegalese footballer who now plays as a winger for Liverpool in the Premier League and for the Senegalese national team. In a match between Southampton and Aston Villa in 2015, Sadio Mane scored the fastest hat trick in Premier League history in less than 3 minutes, establishing ...
English National soccer team kneels for BLM and receives strong criticism from Brexit leader
Brexit leader Nigel Farage during an interview on Monday, June 14, issued harsh words for the English national soccer team's kneeling for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement during the belated UEFA 2020 European Football Championship. He further warned that the BLM movement aims to eradicate Western civilization in the ...
Successful British soccer player will ‘stop kneeling’ before matches, in rejection of Black Lives Matter
Nottingham Forest soccer player Lyle Taylor has spoken out against the new custom imposed by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, in which some professional players kneel before the playing of national anthem, rejecting the tradition and supporting the BLM movement and its leftist ideology. Taylor, during an interview on Friday, ...
President Trump boycotts watching sports where athletes kneel during national anthem
National pastimes will lose the president's spectatorship, if activist players are allowed to protest against police brutality and prejudice against those belonging to another race during games. The Trump administration is tired of demonstrators using competitive sports, such as U.S. Soccer and the NFL, as a platform to express disapproval of ...
US soccer says women’s team earn 28% more than men’s team
Faced with the debate in the United States over the apparent wage inequality between men and women in soccer, Carlos Cordeiro, president of the United States Soccer Federation, published a letter clarifying the figures on July 29. According to the data, the federation paid $34.1 million in salaries and bonuses to ...
Women’s soccer player says Christian player is ‘homophobic’
Ashlyn Harris, the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team goalkeeper, called professional soccer player Jaelene Hinkle "homophobic" because she did not join the team in 2017, guided by her Christian faith. Harris shared a tweet in which she expresses her opinion regarding Hinkle's decision. "Hinkle, our team is about inclusion. Your religion was ...
U.S. women soccer wins World Cup Title, beating Netherlands 2-0
The U.S. women's soccer team won the World Cup title on Sunday, July 7, after beating the Netherlands 2-0 in the final match in Lyon, France. This has been the fourth title for the United States and the second title in a row, making the U.S. team have the best ...
