Pope prays for Maradona, fondly recalls meeting him – Vatican
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis has remembered Diego Maradona in his prayers after learning of the soccer legend’s death on Wednesday, the Vatican said. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said that the Pope, after being informed of Maradona’s death, “thinks back fondly to the times they met in these years and remembers him in prayer”. He said […]
Postcards: High kicks – the Pakistani football star training girls in the Hindu Kush
ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the mountains of Pakistan…
God and goal: Catholic priests and seminarians compete in 13th annual Vatican soccer tournament
Vatican CityRNS Catholic priests and seminarians prepare to toss their cassocks aside and give their all on the soccer field, as Rome launches its 13th annual Clericus Cup. “It was really cool to come to an international place like this, especially coming from the Midwest,” Paul Floersch, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, told Religion News Service […]
Australian women soccer players’ goal on equal pay hoped to boost girls in sport
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation A landmark equal pay deal brokered by the Australian women’s soccer team, the Matildas, has the potential to boost female participation in sports, equality advocates and sports groups said on Wednesday. Australian soccer’s governing body announced it had reached a “unique” agreement with the players’ union that “closes the pay […]
Football Homeless World Cup blows whistle on social exclusion
Cardiff, UKThomson Reuters Foundation From street vendors to asylum seekers, nearly 500 men and women gathered in Cardiff on Saturday to kick off the 17th Football Homeless World Cup, in a bid to tackle social exclusion and offer a respite from rough sleeping. The week-long tournament, which has garnered support from European soccer body UEFA and […]
STRANGESIGHTS: STILL WATCHING BLACK AND WHITE TV?; UK REF’S ‘ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS’ MOMENT; AND, POLICE JUMP ON HOVERBIKES…
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
Refugees find their feet through football in Ireland
Dublin, IrelandThomson Reuters Foundation As Fadi hits a penalty shot into the back of the net, it is hard to believe that just a few years ago the Syrian teenager thought his footballing days were over when a house collapsed on him in an accident in his native Aleppo. The young refugee, who suffered a […]
From the streets to the World Cup: homeless children play Premier League
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rising youth homelessness will come under the spotlight on Friday as the Street Child World Cup kicks off in Moscow, where 230 children from 20 countries are taking part in a football tournament and congress on their rights. A month before the FIFA World Cup in Russia, the week-long event aims to […]
KNOW IT ALL: THE FIFA WORLD CUP
DAVID ADAMS has a look at the World Cup…
International soccer peace tournament shows the way for World Cup
Ekklesia An International Soccer Peace Tournament organised by Catholics has brought together “South Africans, immigrants, and fans from around the world, united in the greatest challenge, peace”. PICTURE: Annette Crimmins (www.sxc.hu) “The aim is to bring together fans of different social classes, different ethnicities, and national origins as well as fans from all over […]