Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran on Thursday allowed female football fans into a stadium for a national team match for the first time in more than a year. Hundreds of Iranian women cheered on the home side during the friendly against the Russian national team at the Azadi Stadium in the capital Tehran. “I came from […]
ANKARA (AA) – Muslim football players in the English Premier League will be able to break their fast mid-game during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the league has announced. “Ramadan will be observed by Muslims around the world from 22 March 2023, including many players in the Premier League. “In 2021, an agreement was ...
Surabaya, Indonesia (AFP): An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted two senior police officers charged with negligence over a stadium crowd crush last year that killed 135 people, angering relatives of those who died in one of football’s worst tragedies. Another officer was jailed for 18 months but families of the victims said he had be...
ANKARA (AA) – Morocco on Tuesday joined Spain and Portugal to bid for hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup. “I would like to announce, before this assembly, that the Kingdom of Morocco has decided, together with Spain and Portugal, to present a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup,” Morocco’s King Mohammed VI said [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – English Premier League club Chelsea will host a first-ever fast-breaking or iftar meal at their home stadium Stamford Bridge on March 26, a few days after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts. “On Sunday 26 March, Chelsea Foundation will host an Open Iftar at the side of the pitch at Stamford […]
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Cristiano Ronaldo recovered from a punch in the face to score twice against Paris Saint-Germain in a lively reunion with his great rival Lionel Messi that demonstrated the financial power of the resource-rich and wealthy Gulf region. Ronaldo, 37, was decked by PSG ‘keeper Keylor Navas’s flailing fist but...
BASRA, Iraq (AA/AFP) – At least one person was killed and 60 others were injured in a stampede at a stadium in Basra, southern Iraq, on Thursday. The crush took place outside the Jaza’a Al Nakhla Stadium, ahead of the final of the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. Medical officials […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Saudi business tycoon has won an auction charity ticket for $2.66 million for a friendly match between football superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in Riyadh. A so-called “ticket beyond imagination” to attend the friendly match between the Saudi Al-Nassr FC and Al-Hilal SFC teams and France’s Paris S...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Five people including three police officers stood trial on Monday for Indonesian football tragedy that killed more than 100 people last year. The court hearing was held in Surabaya district, East Java province, which saw three police officers, a security officer and a soccer match organizer charged with “criminal negligence” at...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Crowds flocked to a football kit store in Riyadh to buy Cristiano Ronaldo’s new club jersey after the five-time Ballon d’Or winner penned a two-year contract with Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr. Abdulmohsen al-Ayyban, 41, and his nine-year old son, Nayef, were among those queueing at Al Nassr club’s...
