Football is broken – and ‘selling’ community assets to keep up with huge spending is proof
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The #Matildas have joined their Japanese counterparts in a joint letter criticising the amount of prize money on offer for the recently concluded Women's Asian Cup.
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The Matildas hype is real. So why are the A-League Women crowds still so small?
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Australia
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Landmark changes to insurance cover for female athletes to be implemented
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UK
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AFL players will no longer have head trauma included within their superannuation plan.
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Australian Rules Football
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8 more footballers have joined a multimillion-dollar #Concussion class action against the #AFL, tipping the total to over 100 former players who all claim they have been left brain-damaged by the game
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Australian Rules Football
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Special report: Violence in amateur football – ‘I can’t comprehend why you would do that to someone’
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Soccer Football
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Study by Victoria University (VU) reveals volunteers involved in #CommunitySport need more support when recognising and responding to disclosures of #AbuseInSport (psychological, physical, sexual & neglect).
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Australia
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#Dementia campaigners demand resignation of PFA chief and hit out at 'insult to dead players and their families' - as one widow brands union 'pathetic and cruel'
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Football Families For Justice (FFJ)
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FIFA mandates female coaches in its women's competitions
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Soccer Football
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Chelsea receives record Premier League fine for breaches of financial rules
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Chelsea are fined a record total of $20.2 million for historical breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations, but avoid a points deduction.
Soccer Football
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Game on! $6m boost to keep teenage girls in sport announced ahead of Matildas blockbuster semi-final
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Western Australia
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The plight of the Iranian women's football team in Australia has exposed a gap between the words and actions of FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) when it comes to #HumanRights, according to some experts.
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Soccer Football
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How the Iranian women's football team made a daring break for freedom
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Matildas learn next opponent as North Korea sensationally protest offside call
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North Korean players refused to return to the field after China had been awarded a goal on VAR review.
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'Silencing mechanism': Football Australia's Matildas FC program angers ex-players
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A new membership program launched by Football Australia puts former Matildas players in a difficult position if they want to criticise the governing body.
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The women's team from Kyneton's 15-month public and bitter saga suggests it is the canary in the coal mine of a widespread issue for women's players across the country.
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Australian Rules Football
Australia
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The mother of Manly player Keith Titmuss, who died of exertional heat stroke following a 2020 Sea Eagles training session, breaks her silence on her family's multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the NRL club.
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Rugby League
Australia
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Footballer Hayleigh Sutton speaks out after 'misogynistic' coach Ryan Hamilton banned for 12 years
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British soccer union wants fewer headers for pros, and none for kids, to protect players' brains
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The Professional Footballers’ Association is set to announce the first comprehensive protocol to prevent CTE in British soccer players
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Man convicted of Child Sexual Abuse working as NSW touch football referee for juniors thanks to legal ‘loophole’
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Australia
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Campaigners hit out at football union for 'refusing to face' brain disease link to heading ball
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South Korea boycott would be 'devastating' for Asian Cup
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Soccer Football
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Malaysian soccer bosses quit over disastrous 'cheating' scandal
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Malaysia
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Women’s Super League Football Limited (WSLF), the entity which oversees the top two divisions of women’s football in England, has announced an £8.2million operating loss on the back of £17.4m revenues in its inaugural year.
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Ex-FIFA president joins calls for World Cup fan boycott
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Sepp Blatter, who was in charge of soccer's global governing body for nearly two decades, is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the US.
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An inquest concludes that "it is likely that repetitive head impacts, sustained by heading the ball while playing football, contributed to the #CTE" which was a factor in the death of ... Gordon McQueen
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Emile Heskey: 'Abuse is deemed acceptable. We must hold people to account'
#Racism #AbuseInSport #AthleteSafety #SportsGov
The former Liverpool and England striker was a regular target for racist abuse – now he wants to fight it head on
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