The moment young Marcus Rashford’s shot hit the post, I turned to my partner and predicted that he’d be slaughtered for it online within moments and racism would raise its ugly head. That angered me, because nobody could understand the pressure of stepping up with the weight of a whole country’s expectations bearing down on ...
Premier League football clubs Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham were involved in a failed attempt to create a breakaway from Champion’s League football by setting up “a new mid-week competition, the Super League, governed by its Founding Clubs,” according to the press release on Sunday, April 18 from European Super League ...
Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. Though the modern version of soccer that is played today has its origins in the West, an ancient form of soccer already existed in China about 2,000 years ago. Known as cuju, the earliest known evidence of the game appears in a military manual ...
Soccer midfielder Mesut Özil, who plays for Arsenal, has been left off of the club’s Europa League and Premier League squads. Özil has previously spoken against China’s persecution of the Uyghur minority and this is speculated to be the reason why he has been sidelined by the team. Punishing Mesut Özil Mikel Arteta, manager of ...
China’s former football superstar and international team player, on the 31st anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre, made a surprise appearance on YouTube. In two videos, Hao Haidong openly called for the ouster of China’s ruling Communist Party. The soccer icon has once again come into the public limelight to become a hotly ...
Several soccer players are giving up their home country’s passports and taking up Chinese citizenship as part of a government program to raise Chinese soccer to international levels. The foreign players play in the Chinese Super League (CSL) alongside domestic talent as Beijing believes this gives Chinese players good exposure to help raise their overall ...
Why does a football team have the number of players it does? A soccer team didn’t always have 11 players. During the 19th century in England, teams had 15 to 21 or even more players. Sometimes, one football team even had more players than the other. It wasn’t until 1870 that the number of players ...
Even though the Japanese team lost their deciding game, they won the hearts of many people through their display of sportsmanship. An image circulating the web shows how spotless the Japanese team left their dressing room. Japan might have lost the quarterfinal game, but they have gained the respect of the world. FIFA’s match commissioner ...
Russia is attracting the world’s attention as the first eastern European country to host the FIFA World Cup; however, China hasn’t sent a team to participate in the games. Yet the 2018 tournament is said to be full of Chinese elements, with Chinese businesses among FIFA’s top sponsors. And the stadiums are visibly full of ...
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