Tottenham Hotspur play Arsenal in a Premier League match in 2023, kit heavily branded.
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Many feel the money could be better spent developing local sport.
Argentina fans celebrating their team’s World Cup victory walk past a mural of Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires. While shared nationality is a factor, most fans typically think about players in terms of their club team.
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Studying how shared identities like nationality and club affiliation impact fan support for soccer players can tell us how our group memberships affect our behaviour.
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Black footballers in the game are given lower scores for technical or cognitive ability than white players.
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Should he stay or should he go now?
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Now is a good opportunity to take important steps towards transparency.
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When done authentically, corporate activism looks and appears easy, but it’s actually easy to get wrong.
Messi’s moment.
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Some key winners have emerged off the field.
But who will go down as the greatest?
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The World Cup is drawing to an end. Will the tournament be remembered for a Messi moment to rival that of Maradona’s? Or as a breakthrough yeah for African nations?
There are concerns that this World Cup’s timing could have a greater psychological impact on players compared to previous ones.
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Some Premier League players may only have mere days to recover from the World Cup before returning to regular season play.
France’s Lucas Hernandez was unable to play the rest of World Cup after injuring his hamstring in France’s first match.
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From factors like the number of extra games to the time non-competing players go on break, having the World Cup in the middle of the domestic season could increase injuries.
South Africa wins the Women’s African Cup of Nations in Rabat as the women’s game grows.
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There was a significant shift towards African football as a business rather than football as development.
The European Parliament is at the centre of a corruption case that has already resulted in the indictment of several people, including one of its vice-presidents.
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The ongoing corruption scandal in the EU Parliament casts a harsh light both on the practices of Qatar and on some of the flaws in the EU institutions.
Youssef En-Nesyri (c) celebrates after scoring Morocco’s first goal against Portugal during quarterfinal match on December 10 2022.
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Football is one of the hardest sports to predict – but there are some fascinating geographical clues when we look at the latitudes of past performers and their ultimate success.
France’s goalkeeper #01 Hugo Lloris (C) jumps for the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarter-final football match between England and France at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, north of Doha, on December 10, 2022.
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After Brazil’s exit, who might be on course to win in 2022? Experts crunch 150 years of big data to predict the winner.
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To qualify for the World Cup, Nigeria’s football structures need to link up with schools and build diverse support.
Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena – home to the LA Lakers basketball team – was known as Staples Center when sponsored by the US office supplies retailer.
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Cryptocurrency customers and sports fans have crossover demographics, but an advertising splurge could distract from solving deeper problems.
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Starry-eyed claims such as “the World Cup brings down cultural barriers” simply do not stand up to scrutiny.
Freedom House ranks gap year favourite Vietnam lower than Qatar on political rights and civil liberties.
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Some tourist destinations are very good at distracting from their questionable approach to civil liberties.
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Players can optimise their energy resources by adopting different styles when running in short bursts or longer periods.
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Being on the same pitch as superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi signalled both the scale of this achievement and the tough task ahead for a game with a troubled history in Australia.