UEFA started a disciplinary process on Wednesday after fans in Malta chanted “Palestine, Palestine” during a Champions League qualifier between Israeli team Maccabi Haifa and Maltese team Hamrun Spartans. This caused the game to be stopped and Maccabi Haifa to lose to Hamrun Spartans. On Tuesday night, emotions rose when Maccabi fans threw flares onto … Read more
Lionel Messi, the leader of the Argentina team that won the World Cup, says he has no idea when he will stop playing for his country. “Not even I know when. “It’ll happen when it happens,” the 36-year-old said in an interview that aired Wednesday on Argentine TV. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner said, “After … Read more
Newcastle United FC (NUFC), a team in the English Premier League, has chosen Dr. Mehzeb Chowdhury to be a part of its Independent Advisory Group (IAG). The hiring is a big step forward for Chowdhury, a worker from Bangladesh who works in the UK, especially in the football business, which has been one of the … Read more
Paul Smalley, the technical head of the Bangladesh Football Federation, won’t be with the women’s team when they play Nepal in a FIFA friendly in Dhaka. This is unusual for the British national, who has been a regular part of the women’s team since he was hired in 2016. The BFF’s technical director, who is … Read more
Mahfuza Akter Kiron, who is in charge of the women’s wing of the Bangladesh Football Federation, said that the BFF has paid for the women’s football team to stay at Hotel InterContinental, where the Nepal team is living, even though the hotel is broke. The AFC executive member also said that the federation took this … Read more
Edwin van der Sar, a former goalkeeper for the Netherlands who is now an executive at Ajax, suffered a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday, and his club announced that while he was no longer in immediate danger of losing his life, he remained in critical care in the hospital. The 52-year-old former player for Ajax in … Read more
On Tuesday, Argentine superstar Lionel Messi touched down in Florida, where he will complete the last steps of his transfer to the Major League Soccer club Inter Miami in the United States. Argentine television footage showed Lionel Messi and members of his family alighting from a private plane at a modest executive airport in close … Read more
The Nepalese women’s football team arrived in Dhaka Wednesday to begin preparations for two upcoming friendly matches against the Bangladesh national team. On July 13 and 16, both matches are set to take place at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur. The first ball is slated to be kicked off at 5:30 in … Read more
Sporting officials said on Tuesday that this year’s “Soccer Ashes” match between Australia and New Zealand will be played for this long-forgotten trophy that was only recently unearthed, almost 70 years after it was lost. The elaborate hardwood trophy, which has been named the “greatest domestic treasure” in Australian football, contains a silver razor case … Read more
Casemiro, who plays for both Manchester United and Brazil, has expressed his admiration for Lionel Messi, who captains Argentina. In a recent conversation with Placar, Casemiro remarked, “I didn’t get the chance to watch Maradona or Pele play, but I enjoyed watching the three greatest players of my generation: Messi, Cristiano and Neymar.” Messi, now … Read more
