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Retired Australian athlete Craig Foster is the latest figure in the football world to criticise Israel and call for its suspension, following its seven-month assault in Gaza. This comes as the world’s football body is set to meet on 17 May. Foster joined calls for Israel’s ban on Friday, supporting the Palestinian Football Association (PFA)'s request to FIFA made in March, ahead of the organisations annual Congress in Thailand. The PFA highlighted Israeli violations against Palestinians in Gaza, specifically targeting Palestinian footballers and football infrastructure. Foster, a former player...
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The United States repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, from northeastern Syria, the State Department said on Tuesday, in the largest single return of Americans from the war zone. The United States also helped repatriate six Canadians, four Dutch citizens, and a child from Finland back to those countries, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. A 9-year-old non-US citizen, who was a sibling of one of the American minors, was also resettled in the United States, he said. The Canadian foreign ministry said the six Canadians were children who would "receive ...
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As nations gear up for the 2024 Olympic Games, the 'refugee team' - which includes displaced Arabs - also announced its athletes who will compete in Paris. A Turkish kung fu fighter has meanwhile been penalised for a show of support for Palestine, meanwhile in the country's football league saw a match-fixing scandal. IOC names Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has named the largest-ever Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024, which will see 36 athletes compete in the global competition held in the French capital from 26 July to 11 August. "Congratulation...
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Two Israeli fans were barred from entering a stadium in Tel Aviv to watch a football match on Saturday night over shirts they wore that were deemed insulting to Israel’s extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. According to Haaretz, two men, who were in a group of three, were stopped at the Bloomfield Stadium by police and asked to show their shirts, which read "FCK BNGVR". They were then told they could not enter. One of the men who spoke to Haaretz said their third friend wore a shirt that read "F*ck Maccabi Tel Aviv" – an Israeli football team – but was allowed to enter, descri...
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For the second straight week, an African Confederation Cup match between Renaissance Berkane and Algerian side USM Alger was cancelled in a dispute over a map on the Moroccan team's shirts. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) awarded Berkane a 3–0 victory in the first leg of their semi-final, cancelled last Sunday when the Moroccan club refused to take the field after Algerian officials confiscated their shirts. On Sunday in Berkane, only the home players took the field and they saluted their fans as the stadium announcer told the crowd the match had been cancelled. Moroccan television...
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Zamalek of Egypt won a CAF Confederation Cup semi-final away leg by a record margin as they defeated Dreams of Ghana 3-0 in Kumasi on Sunday. The White Knights won the tie 3-0 on aggregate after a goalless first leg in the Egyptian capital last Sunday. Zamalek bettered the previous best away result in the penultimate stage -- a 3-1 victory by SuperSport United of South Africa against Club Africain of Tunisia seven seasons ago. The Cairo club are likely to face Renaissance Berkane of Morocco in the two-leg final on May 12 and 19 in what would be a repeat of the 2019 title decider won by Zamalek...
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Morocco clinched the AFCON futsal trophy without losing a single game in Rabat this week, while Uzbekistan join the likes of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and hosts Qatar as they became the final team to take their place in the quarterfinals of the AFC U23 Asian Cup. The Saudi Pro League could be adding another European talent to its ranks, with Liverpool and England legend Steven Gerrard, currently manager of Al-Ettifaq, set to raid his old club Glasgow Rangers for their club captain James Tavernier. Morocco reign supreme in AFCON futsal finalMorocco's futsal team clinched the Africa Cup of Nations trop...
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An African Confederation Cup match between USM Alger and Moroccan team Renaissance Berkane was cancelled just before kickoff on Sunday after a dispute over the Moroccan club's jerseys. The row began on Friday morning when the Moroccan squad arrived in Algeria ahead of the first leg of the semi-final. Algerian media reported that customs officers confiscated Berkane's shirts on the grounds that they carried a map of Morocco that included the disputed Western Sahara. Shortly before Sunday's scheduled 1900 GMT kick off, USM Alger sporting director Toufik Korichi told Algerian radio that the match...
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Tragic flooding in the Gulf region caused disruption to football games in the UAE and Oman this week, including a crunch AFC Cup game. The U-23 Asian Cup also kicked off in Qatar, with hot competition for the trophy, while a Saudi football fan has got into hot water for allegedly striking a player with a whip. Whip incident sees outrage in Saudi Arabia The Saudi Arabian Football Federation will review the country’s spectator code of conduct after a fan of Jeddah side Al-Ittihad appeared to whip Moroccan footballer Abderrazak Hamdallah last week. The incident took place at the end of the Saudi ...
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Chaos, fights, and a surprise winner of a UAE football cup marked this week's Middle East sporting action. Turkish club Fenerbahce's U-19 side held a mid-match protest against their rivals Galatasaray while a fan and player were involved in a fracas in the Saudi Super Cup. Meanwhile, Fleetwood United also picked up silverware - in the UAE. Chaos again, on Tukey's football pitches Players from the U-19 Turkish club Fenerbahce walked off the pitch one minute into the Super Cup Final game against fellow Istanbul rival Galatasaray on Sunday. The protest was staged after Galatasaray scored an early...
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