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Is Soccer on the Brink of a Moral Awakening?

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March 7, 2022

Via The New Republic, an article on how people have become more aware of the deleterious influence oligarch owners and there is a push among fans to move soccer past its ugly racist history: Not so long ago, Chelsea FC’s [...]

USWNT Players Denounce Texas Governor’s Anti-Transgender Order

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February 24, 2022

Via SI.com, an article on USWNT players' decision to wear wristbands to denounce the Texas Governor’s Anti-Transgender order: A day after Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered state child welfare agencies to consider children [...]

Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine Has a Direct Impact on Champions League, World Cup

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February 24, 2022

Via SI.com, a report on how UEFA and FIFA find themselves confronting the nexus of geopolitics and global football's showpiece events: Geopolitics and global football often find themselves intertwined, and current events have [...]

U.S. Soccer Federation Finally Admits They Underpaid and Undervalued Women

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February 24, 2022

Via Jezebel, an article on the momentous settlement marking the end of a six-year fight, while illuminating just how far women’s sports still have to go: On Tuesday morning, Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, and 28 other players [...]

Pitch Politics

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February 14, 2022

Via Africa's A Country, commentary on how sports, especially football/soccer, has long served as an arena for political contestation and expression: In this post, first published in 2019, Carey Barak writes from the African [...]

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