Via Sportsnet, an article on how leaders from three booming women’s pro leagues explain the challenges and triumphs driving them, and their sports, forward:
There’s a sense of momentum in women’s professional sports [...]
February
26,
2024
Via GQ, a look at how Saudi Arabia is spending an unfathomable fortune to lure the biggest stars of global football to its upstart league. Is this the future of the world’s most popular sport? The vanguard of sportswashing? Or [...]
February
11,
2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on how aspiring African soccer payers used to leave the continent to pursue their dreams in Europe, but now they are coming home:
Amid hotly contested elections, nations abandoning [...]
February
3,
2024
Via the Washington Post, an Op-Ed commentary on DC United's connection with Saudi Arabia:
Regarding the Jan. 27 Sports article “D.C. United opens camp in Saudi Arabia with eye on signing defender [...]
January
26,
2024
Via The Guardian, reflections on how Saudi investors buying up the Italian and Spanish Super Cups has legitimized the nation’s regime, at home and around the world:
In early 2019, a rising [...]
Via NPR, a report on a rare moment of joy as Palestinians celebrate their national soccer team's win at the Asian Cup, which sends them to the knockout stage:
The Palestinian soccer team made history this week. For the first [...]