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2023 World Cup was a ‘turning point’ for women’s soccer. Now comes the real work
- FIFA's biggest challenge, now, is to sustain that shift in the three-year, 10-month interim between World Cups.
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Oregon's Sports Bra, a pub for women's sports fans, plans national expansion as interest booms
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — On a recent weeknight at this bar in northeast Portland, fans downed pints and burgers as college women's lacrosse and beach volleyball matches played on big-screen TVs. Memorabilia autographed by female athletes covered the walls, with a painting of U.S. soccer legend Abby Wambach mounted above the chalkboard beer menu. The Sports Bra is a pub where women's sports are celebrated — and the only thing on TV. Packed and buzzing with activity, the bar has successfully tapped i
- SportsThe Independent
Queens Park Rangers vs Leeds United LIVE: Championship result, final score and reaction
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- SportsThe Guardian
Calendar ‘getting to tipping point’ with bigger Club World Cup, Masters warns
The Premier League’s CEO is unhappy with a lack of consultation by Fifa and said Manchester City’s 115 charges are to be resolved ‘in the near future’
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Brazilian soccer legend Marta to retire after potential Paris Olympics appearance
Brazilian soccer legend Marta will end her international playing career after a potential run at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, she announced Thursday.
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Premier League chief warns of calendar 'tipping point'
Premier League chief executive Richard Masters says the amount of matches teams are being asked to play is heading towards a "tipping point".
- SportsThe Canadian Press
European soccer leagues insist they have no plans for games in the US. A lawsuit could change that
GENEVA (AP) — Leaders of top European soccer leagues say they have no plans to take games to the United States, though acknowledged that could change pending a lawsuit in Manhattan. FIFA has shifted its long-time policy of blocking domestic league games being played on the territory of another member federation by withdrawing this month from an antitrust suit filed by U.S. promoter Relevent Sports. The suit is also against the U.S. Soccer Federation. If league games could be organized abroad, Eu
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Brazil women's star Marta to retire from international soccer
Marta, who has been playing in the United States with Orlando Pride since 2017, hopes to make her sixth appearance at the Olympics.
- SportsThe Telegraph
Manchester City’s 115 charges: Premier League says hearing ‘in near future’
Manchester City will learn their fate over the 115 charges they face for allegedly breaking Premier League rules “in the near future”, Richard Masters has said.
- SportsThe Telegraph
‘Nobody said it would be easy’: Dave Kitson on managing Nauru, one of the world’s fattest countries
Dave Kitson is about to embark on a somewhat unexpected footballing journey. In July the former Reading, Stoke and Oxford striker is heading off to one of the most isolated places on earth: the tiny Micronesian state of Nauru. His role: to get the locals playing football. Which, given that the island boasts just one quarter-sized pitch and almost the entire landscape has been horribly scarred by a generation of phosphate mining, is likely to prove no easy task. Not to mention the fact that 70 pe
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‘Win the trophy. That’s what we can achieve,’ says Trent Alexander-Arnold of England’s chances at Euro 2024
Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold says that the England squad will head to Euro 2024 believing it can win the European Championship in Germany this summer.
