Pakistani cricket fans criticize the cricket board for excluding former captain and PM Imran Khan from a social media video celebrating the national team's history since 1947
“Qatar has shown the world that football can be enjoyed without alcohol, and women can enjoy it without fearing for their safety.”
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female fans say they’re enjoying late-night games, safe and secure
Brazil's football squad landed in Australia for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup on a charter plane that paid tribute to Iran protesters, including pictures of Mahsa Amini and Amir Nasr Azadani ⤵️
Egypt and Liverpool footballer Mohamed Salah calls for an end to 'massacres' in Gaza, saying humanitarian aid must immediately be allowed into the besieged Palestinian enclave
Scotland’s Celtic fans defied their club’s directives and waved thousands of Palestine flags during their team’s UEFA Champions League match against Atletico Madrid
The Ireland women’s basketball team refused to shake hands with their Israeli opponents during a EuroBasket 2025 qualifier in Latvia.
Ireland made the decision after an Israeli player made allegations of anti-Semitism against them.
🇰🇷 South Korea 2 - 1 Portugal 🇵🇹
FULL-TIME: The referee blows the final whistle and is received with a rising crescendo of noise from the South Korean fans.
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‘We’re on the right side of history’
Why a chasm is growing between Celtic Football Club’s board and fans expressing solidarity with Gaza amid Israel’s war
🇲🇦 Morocco 1 - 0 Portugal 🇵🇹
FULL-TIME: Morocco make history as the first African team to reach the semi-finals!
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Wild scenes in Iran as football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo arrived in the capital Tehran with his Saudi club team Al Nassr to play Persepolis in the
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The fans cleaned the stadium
The players cleaned the dressing room
Despite being knocked out, Japan leave
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with pride and attracted huge praise
Somalia’s sports minister has apologised after a video of an ‘untrained’ Somali runner jogging down the track for a 100m race at an international competition went viral.
One of Somalia’s top athletics bosses has been suspended for ‘nepotism’ 👇
Scotland’s Celtic Football Club has been fined $19,000 after its fans waved Palestinian flags during a Champions League match amid Israel's war on Gaza.
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🇲🇦 Morocco 1 - 0 Portugal 🇵🇹
Morocco supporters behind both goals have been on their feet since well before the start of the match. Nothing that happens in the rest of the game will change that.
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“It says a lot about our determination, self-belief and faith in God [as Palestinian people]."
Palestine enters the Asian Cup 2023 knockouts with emphatic win over Hong Kong
"Pele represents the good side of Brazil."
Thousands of Brazilians have been waiting in lines around Santos' Vila Belmiro stadium to bid a final farewell to football legend Pele ⤵️
Palestine are through to the knockout stage of the AFC
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for the first time, after recording their first-ever win in the competition. Players dedicated the victory to all Palestinians who are suffering.
Heba Saadieh tells Al Jazeera what she loves about refereeing, the challenges she’s overcome, and what it means to officiate in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup
Mbappe greeted passengers on a flight to the Middle East with a memorable World Cup catchphrase where PSG will play a friendly against a select side from Ronaldo’s new Saudi club and their rivals 👇
🇩🇪 Germany 1 - 2 Japan 🇯🇵
FULL-TIME: Historic win for Japan! Their bench runs onto the pitch to celebrate with the players.
First Saudi Arabia and now Japan, the powerhouses of football are being toppled. Who's next?
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"Lack of moral standing."
Australia’s Usman Khawaja's attempt to have a message of support for Palestinians in Gaza and a peace sign on his boots was blocked by the ICC
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 0 - 3 Palestine 🇵🇸
FULL-TIME: Palestine are through to the knock-out stage of the
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As it stands they finish third in Group C and their points return will be enough to send them through.
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“Huge loss for Palestinian football.”
Mohammed Barakat, who played for Ahly Gaza and Palestine, was killed when his house in Khan Younis was bombed by Israeli forces
Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad refused to play their Asian Champions League match against Iran’s Sepahan because of a sculpture of former Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in the stadium ⤵️
Gaza’s beloved karate champion, Nagham Abu Samra, was in line to participate at the Olympics until an Israeli attack left her amputated and eventually took her life
“Only the best players in the world score goals like this." - Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp
Here's how the world reacted to Mo Salah's stunning goal against Man City
"We’re there to fight and make an impact. I know what Ghana is capable of."
Ghana’s captain Andre Ayew tells Al Jazeera about the team’s preparation and chances at the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Cristiano Ronaldo made a young fan’s day when they met in a Tehran hotel room, a day after the boy was televised in tears believing he’d missed his chance ⤵️
🇲🇦 Morocco 1 - 0 Portugal 🇵🇹
HALF-TIME: Morocco grew into this half and deserve to go into the break in front. Fernandes hit the crossbar from an unlikely angle, in a frantic end to that first half.
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Novak Djokovic has won the French Open, making history as the first man to win all four major tennis tournaments three times.
Here’s a look at the Serbian player’s stats ⤵️
Ireland’s gymnastics federation has apologised for the allegedly racist treatment of a young Black gymnast who was skipped by an official handing out medals to a row of girls last year.
Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah donates oxygen and an ambulance to his home village in the Egyptian region of Gharbia, helping locals treat people suffering with COVID-19
🏴 England 1 - 2 France 🇫🇷
FULL-TIME: With that last chance from Rashford, the whistle is soon blown and France go through to the
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"One of the greatest moments in my life.”
Morocco fans celebrate historic win over Spain that secured a first-ever quarter-final World Cup place 👇
— in pictures