Via BBC Sport, a report on the Afghanistan women's soccer team which is no longer recognised by their country or FIFA:
Some players are doing last-minute boot checks, others putting on their shin guards. One is adjusting her [...]
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on the Homeless World Cup which uses the power of sport to include the excluded:
Matt Fairweather has struggled with bipolar disorder and mania throughout his life. The past decade, [...]
July
6,
2023
Via Spotify, an interesting discussion about the Russian and Ukrainian sports communities’ responses to the invasion, how athletes and fans might turn the tide of sportwashing and the ways sports can both reveal and and mask [...]
April
25,
2023
Via Taylor & Francis online, notice of a new scholar study on the 'soft power' of sport in the Middle East:
By hosting spectacular international mega-events such as the 2022 World Cup and investing in the heavyweights of [...]
February
28,
2023
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a report on how - a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine got its athletes barred from international sports, there’s renewed attention to the long ban on South Africans:
There was [...]
February
10,
2023
Via the Atlantic Council, commentary on Pan-Africanism and soccer:
Morocco’s magical run at the 2022 World Cup, where it became the first African nation to reach the semifinal, was celebrated across the continent. What [...]