カテゴリー: Football
Crunch fixture taps into a complicated underlying political history, with 150,000 North Koreans living in JapanA place at the next football World Cup is not all that is at stake when Japan and North Korea meet on Thursday for the first of two qualifyin…
‘I don’t have to motivate the team against China,’ says manager after 2-1 win in friendly played behind closed doorsHong Kong have beaten China for the first time in 29 years in a friendly football match in Abu Dhabi.Hong Kong’s 2-1 victory over China …
FC Baresi midfielder is preparing to face Yemen in Saudi Arabia instead of turning out in the 11th tier of English footballIt’s a long way from the Essex Alliance Football League to the 2026 World Cup, but while the leaders, FC Baresi, host Haringey Bo…
Police said shooter had history of family violence and there was no reason to delay World Cup opening matchTwo people have been killed and six injured after a shooting in Auckland city centre on Thursday morning, hours before the Women’s World Cup kick…
A new football league in Tokyo has been established with one strict criterion: all the players are aged 80 and above. In Japan, where people over 65 represent nearly a third of the population, active older people are challenging ideas about what they c…
Soccer for Life league in Tokyo has about 40 players, enough for three teams, playing 30-minute matchesThere are mops of silver hair, Bobby Charlton combovers and a fair number of creaking knees. But the Red Star and Blue Hawaii football teams can be f…
Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wagesThree World Cup security guards who were detained while trying to resolve a dispute over unpaid wages are still being held in …
Spanish manager whose CV also features time at Barcelona and Brighton recently led ATK Mohun Bagan to playoff triumphWhen the 2022-23 Indian Super League (ISL) ended last month, four of the 11 teams had Spanish coaches, four were in English hands and t…
Stadiums are reopening but detentions of major football figures overshadow the sport, as scandal engulfs basketballSergio Agüero may be one of the greatest strikers of his generation, but he won an even rarer accolade in 2015, when he became the first …
For thousands of low-paid workers, this year’s games brought back only memories of abuse and exploitationOn a huge billboard in front of Kathmandu’s international airport, is a picture of five migrant workers with the words: “Meet the hardest working t…
Victory in World Cup opener sparks street celebrations and banishes painful memories in Doha of failure to qualify for USA 1994Japan’s shock victory over Germany in Qatar on Wednesday sparked late-night celebrations and calls to mark the Samurai Blue’s…
President Joko Widodo says Kanjuruhan stadium will be rebuilt to ‘Fifa standards’ after meeting with the world football body’s leaderThe Indonesian football stadium where more than 130 people were killed in a crowd crush on 1 October will be torn down …
Police and match organisers among those to be charged after 131 were killed in one of the worst sports disasters in historySix people, including police and match organisers, are facing criminal charges in Indonesia after a crowd crush at a football gam…
Iwan Junaedi, one of the 131 people killed on Saturday, fulfilled his vow to support his team until his last breath, his wife saysThe Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, has visited victims of the Kanjuruhan stadium disaster, vowing to find the “root” o…
Officers investigated after teargas fired and at least 125 people, including 32 children, killed in crushAn Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from their posts and 18 others were being investigated for responsibility in the fi…