Ziggy Marley made a special appearance alongside his wife, kids, sister and nephews at the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) match this past weekend, serving as the day's honorary Falconer! The match was also made extra special, landing on the new national holiday Juneteenth (June...
Photo from Charles Platiau/Reuters, via Al Jazeera Article by Doug McIntyre, Yahoo! Sports Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir was supposed to be anticlimactic, as an expected win at home for PSG against the overmatched, already-eliminated Turks would send Neymar and Co. into...
Photo by Steffen Prößdorf via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) Article by Michael LoRé, Forbes Lieke Martens played soccer with boys until she was 16 years old. Some opposing players would maliciously kick out at her because she was a girl. Some would pull her ponytail because she was a...
Photo via New York Post, Reuters Article by Reuters, New York Post The thought of playing soccer as a professional had remained a distant dream for Ezzeldin Bahader for decades – until, at the age of 75, he registered with the Egyptian Football Association as its oldest player...
Photo by Unknown Article by Tom Warren, via THE VERGE. Seattle Sounders FC is getting a lot of new owners today as part of a joint ownership group spearheaded by former Microsoft executive Terry Myerson. Eleven families with connections to the Seattle area have teamed up to...
Photo by vmiquilena via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Article by Adriana Garcia via ESPN Real Madrid confirmed on Tuesday evening they will have a women's team compete in Spain's top flight beginning in the 2020-21 campaign. The club's board approved the acquisition of Madrid-based women's club CD Tacon...
Photo by Ian MacNicol Article by Jeré Longman, via NY TIMES. Upon graduating from the University of Tennessee last month, Khadija Shaw allowed herself a quiet moment of self-congratulation. She was the first in her family to receive a college degree. She had persevered through tragedy, having...
Photo by Richard W. Rodriguez, AP Article via usatoday.com Cedella Marley, the eldest daughter of music legend Bob Marley, has played a key role in resurrecting the Jamaican women's soccer team after the country's federation cut the funding at the beginning of the decade. Marley was upset when...
Photo by Neil Theasby via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article by Loop Sports, via Loop Jamaica The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) announced that Jamaica will host the 2019 Flow Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship. The competition for professional Caribbean clubs is scheduled to take...
Photo by Ringer illustration (Getty Images) Article by Daniel Harris, via The Ringer With the possible exception of love, soccer is the greatest thing in the world. An obvious sentiment to some, granted, true to the point of truism, but strangely, one that hasn’t always been shared....