ANKARA (AA) – French football club OGC Nice said on Wednesday it had suspended Youcef Atal for showing his support for Palestine. The 27-year-old had shared a video supporting Palestine on Instagram on Saturday. “Despite the fact that the Algerian player has acknowledged his error by quickly withdrawing the sharing of the publicati...
ANKARA (AA) — Football players across the world have expressed solidarity with Palestine as Israel continues to bombard the impoverished and besieged Gaza Strip. Galatasaray’s Moroccan winger Hakim Ziyech, his compatriot at Bayern Munich Noussair Mazraoui, former Real Madrid star and 2022 men’s Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzem...
Taif, Saudi Arabia — AFP As Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar pack Saudi stadiums, a quieter but equally dramatic transformation is unfolding for women’s professional football, which didn’t even exist in the kingdom five years ago. On a recent evening in the mountain city of Taif, the Saudi women’s national team ran through ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – In the first Iranian reaction to a row surrounding a canceled football game between Iran’s Sepahan club and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said the game must not become a “political lever.” The Asian Champions League (AFC) match was scheduled to take place on Monday at the Naq...
Malang, Indonesia – AFP Hundreds of Indonesians paid tribute Sunday to the victims of a football stadium crush a year ago that killed 135 people in one of the world’s worst sports disasters, while some locals entered the ground and started fires on the pitch. Grieving relatives, survivors and fans gathered for a mass prayer [&helli...
The Collective to Combat Islamophobia in Europe praised both Sephora and Les Hijabeuses for spotlighting Muslim women in France PARIS, France – A recent advertisement by cosmetics giant Sephora featuring Muslim hijabi female soccer players has sparked a wave of far-right criticism in France. The ad features members of Les Hijabeuses, an ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A former Pakistani cricket player was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday for “inciting the murder” of a far-right Dutch leader. Khalid Latif, 37, offered 3 million rupees, almost equal to $25,000 at that time, as head money for Geert Wilder in an online video in 2018, after the […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani security forces have launched a fresh operation in the southwestern mountainous region to recover six local footballers kidnapped by armed men last week, a government official said on Monday. The footballers were on their way to take part in a local football tournament in southwestern Balochistan provin...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli sports delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday to participate in a world weightlifting competition, according to Israeli media. The Saudi-hosted World Weightlifting Championship 2023 will qualify Israel to reserve a ticket for next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, the Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Pakistani porter, who fell from a narrow trail while attempting to ascend K-2 late last month, has cleared the Norwegian climber who was accused of walking past the dying porter. “The inquiry has not fixed the responsibility of the porter’s death ...
