- Asian Football Confederation Puts Iran on the Spot on Women's Rights - Huffington Post (blog)
Iranian women soccer fans have set their hopes on the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to return them to the terraces after having been banned from stadiums for years to prevent them from looking at men's bodies. The women expect the AFC's insistence ...
- Giovanni Moreno threatened - ESPN
Fan-related violence is endemic in Argentine soccer. It has escalated in recent weeks with threats against players and heads of several clubs. The nonprofit group "Let's Save Football" says at least six people have died in the past six months in ...
- Soccer: Barton gets 12-match ban for violent conduct - New Zealand Herald
Photo / AP Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton was banned for 12 matches by the English Football Association today after being found guilty of repeated violent conduct in the last match of the Premier League season at Manchester City.Joey Barton Banned For 12 MatchesSB Nation
- Rush relishing Liverpool's US tour - FOXSports.com
Ives Galarcep is a 14-year veteran of the American soccer beat. He created and operates the popular American soccer blog, Soccer By Ives, which was voted Best American Soccer Blog by US Soccer in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Ives was also voted Best Football ...
- Derrick elected new president of Caribbean soccer body - Reuters
By Simon Evans | MIAMI (Reuters) - The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) has elected Antiguan Gordon Derrick, an official reprimanded in a FIFA ethics probe, as their new president a year after Jack Warner relinquished the post amid corruption allegations ...
- FIFA Names Burundi Soccer Head as First Woman on Executive Board - BusinessWeek
By Tariq Panja on May 22, 2012 FIFA today appointed a woman to its executive board for the first time in the soccer body's 108-year history. Lydia Nsekera, president of the Burundi Football Association, was invited to become the 25th member of FIFA's ...
- Americans Support Darfur Refugee Soccer Team - Voice of America
LOS ANGELES - Football players from the Darfur region of Sudan plan to compete in the VIVA Cup, an international competition that will begin in Erbil, in the Kurdish region of Iraq, on June 4. Supporters of the all-refugee team, Darfur United, ...
- Jack Warner, Blazer land in hot water - FOXSports.com
A list of financial mismanagement allegations against former CONCACAF leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer was outlined to 40 football nations Wednesday, just minutes after they elected Jeffrey Webb as their new president. Officials from across Central ...
- Girls Defeat the Boys in Charity Soccer Match - Patch.com
Football, pitted the Menomonee Falls varsity football team against the varsity girls soccer team in a friendly match with 30-minute halves. Midfielder Jen Eberhardy winds up to score in the first half. The ball zinged by defensive lineman Jared ...
- Soccer field among three new playing surfaces coming to Heights - The Newark Advocate
The school board voted May 15 to spend nearly $40000 to build the field, a combination practice soccer/football field and a practice football field at the high school. It hired Columbus Site Development Group to oversee the project, ...