• Player-manager relationships: What women’s football thinks about them

    When the managers of all 12 Women’s Super League (WSL) clubs sat down for their press conferences on Thursday and Friday, this weekend’s matches were not at the top of the agenda. Following the news last week that over an alleged relationship with one of his players, The Athletic and other media organisations pressed his managerial counterparts for their views on whether relationships between players and coaches can ever be acceptable. Advertisement Most, but not all, . The allegation against...

  • Football quiz: can you name these nations’ most-capped male players?

    Which players have turned out the most times for the top 16 countries in men’s football? Test your knowledge nowWe’ll have the same quiz for women’s football on Thursday Continue reading

  • WATCH: College Football Player Posts Video on Why He Learns Torah

    (VINnews) — Orthodox Jewish college football player Sam Salz posted a video explaining why he makes time each day to learn Torah. In the short uplifting clip, Sam explains that in addition to it being a very important mitzvah, it is also a way to develop and nurture a relationship with Hashem. Join our WhatsApp

  • France football federation under fire for ban on Muslim Players fasting during Ramadhan

    Shafaqna English- The French Football Federation (FFF), has sparked fresh controversy over a reported policy that apparently bans Muslim players from fasting while at the national team’s training camp during Ramadhan in the name of maintaining strict secularism, which has long fomented broader tensions in French society. “France continues to

  • Football player Robinho to serve rape sentence in Brazil, court rules

    The Brazilian court has decided to uphold an Italian court’s rape conviction and nine-year prison sentence for the former Milan strikerA Brazilian court has decided to uphold an Italian court’s rape conviction for the former Milan and Brazil striker Robinho, and that the former star player must serve his nine-year prison sentence in Brazil.The trial in Brazil’s superior court of justice (STJ), the country’s top court for non-constitutional matters, had a majority rule that Italy’s decision was...

  • Why do big-star football players end up in the Gulf’s rich leagues?

    What do players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr, Karim Benzema, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Sadio Mane and Ruben Neves – to name a few – have in common? They are all big-star footballers who have recently moved to the Middle East to unfold their talents and on-field capabilities in the aspiring Saudi Pro League. Ronaldo’s move

  • VFF rebuts YouTube claims key players exiting Vietnam football team

    A YouTube channel with nearly 500,000 followers circulated these rumors

  • At 15 I was the football league's youngest player. 10 years later I was contemplating suicide

    His tough experience, including suicidal thoughts, is valuable to new players. England's Euro 2004 team was incredible on paper but they didn't win. Can this crop do it this summer?

  • National coach Jonker understands women's football players' call for better pay

    National coach Andries Jonker understands the demand of women’s football players in the Eredivisie for better pay and believes that consideration should be given to whether this is already realistic. "Is the time ripe for this? Is the reality such that we can afford it? That the clubs say: we'll do it," the coach wondered.Jonker responded in the Goedemorgen Eredivisie program on ESPN to a joint statement from the Eredivisie footballers to the KNVB, the clubs and sponsors to do something about...

  • after he claimed the Chelsea star and four other black players 'would be in jail if it didn't work out in football'

    Ex-Norwich City chief Stuart Webber has sparked anger among several players. Webber claimed five stars could be in jail if it didn't work out in football for them. England's Euro 2004 team was incredible on paper but they didn't win. Can this crop do it this summer? Listen to the

  • College Football Player Gives His Scholarship To Teammate Who Sells His Plasma To Afford School

    Brian Dooley, a college football player at Eastern Michigan University (EMU), US, gave his scholarship to his teammate after realising he was struggling financially.Zack Conti, Dooley's teammate who also plays on the offensive line, was paying his college fees by juggling multiple jobs and donating plasma.While donating plasma can support trauma patients and those enduring plasma-based therapies, medical researchers have found that donating plasma can also positively affect the donor's body -...

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    Ex-College Football Player Charged in Poisoning Deaths of Girlfriend & Unborn Child

    A 28-year-old ex-college football star has been accused of fatally poisoning his girlfriend and their unborn child, according to Nashville authorities. In a press release shared by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Blaise A. Taylor, 27, a former college football player at Arkansas State and an analyst at Texas A&M, was arrested in Utah on Thursday after being indicted by a Nashville grand jury, which charged him with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of...