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Italian football witnesses player revolt over virus
AFP, Published on 09/03/2020
» ROME: Italy's chaotic football season witnessed a player revolt Sunday over the idea of having to play matches during the coronavirus outbreak -- and the league demand for the games to go ahead.
German football outlines plan for May return
AFP, Published on 23/04/2020
» BERLIN: The German football league is set to announce plans Thursday for the Bundesliga to restart without spectators in the first half of May, but a move hailed as a welcome return to normality by some is meeting opposition from some scientists and fans.
French football, rugby seasons off until September
AFP, Published on 28/04/2020
» PARIS: French professional sports leagues including football and rugby cannot restart before September because of coronavirus restrictions, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday.
Football films can be a mixed bag
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/05/2020
» Last week I watched on TV a couple of half-decent films on American sports -- Moneyball (2011) starring Brad Pitt as a baseball manager and Any Given Sunday (1999) with Al Pacino as coach of an underperforming American gridiron team.
Football legend Maradona dead at 60: spokesman
AFP, Published on 26/11/2020
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60, his spokesman announced Wednesday.
Female kicker makes college American football breakthrough
AFP, Published on 29/11/2020
» WASHINGTON: Vanderbilt University kicker Sarah Fuller made collegiate American football history Saturday as the first woman to play in a "Power Five" contest in the Commodores' 41-0 loss to Missouri.
Chinese football clubs ordered to change names
AFP, Published on 03/12/2020
» SHANGHAI - Next season's Chinese Super League will take on a new look after the 16 teams were told to drop the corporate part of their names, infuriating some fans.
Vietjet fined for football-bikini inflight stunt
Reuters, Published on 30/01/2018
» HANOI: Vietnam's aviation authority on Tuesday fined budget airline Vietjet for a semi-naked and celebratory display by bikini-clad models aboard a special flight carrying home the country's under-23 football team from a competition in China.
Students: Watches mockery banned at football match
Online Reporters, Published on 02/02/2018
» The political mockery involving luxury watches and military figures was allegedly banned during the 72nd Chulalongkorn-Thammasat Traditional Football Match scheduled at the National Stadium in Bangkok on Saturday.
Greek football league suspended after gun controversy
AFP, Published on 12/03/2018
» ATHENS - Greece's top-flight football championship was suspended indefinitely Monday, a minister said, hours after the owner of the PAOK team invaded the pitch with a gun strapped to his belt.