The Real Sociedad players also join the movement as they have also been forced to have the RFEF badge on their jersey. It’s only required for professional leagues in Spain and the RFEF doesn’t consider the first division of women’s football professional so the teams don’t have to have the badge but the still deducted 3 points from Levante, Real Sociedad and Villareal for not having the badge.
This brave young man has shared his truth with the world.
Josh is a professional soccer player and is believed to be the only current, openly gay male professional footballer in the world after he revealed his sexuality in an emotional video.
Josh’s message brought tears to my eyes.
His video is heartbreaking, but also heartwarming and hopeful, talking about having to hide your true self, the struggles, the fears, but also being optimistic, and and ending with:
“I’m Josh Cavallo, I’m a footballer and I am proud to be gay”.
How shocking and sad is it that this young man is the only known openly gay professional footballer in the world? How sad is it that others have to live in fear while hiding their true selves from others, their team mates, their fans. And how brave of this young man to take this terrifying step he took.
Josh shared more of his struggles and decision to ‘come out’ on his Twitter account:
So, I would like to share my love and support to you Josh.
I hate the narrative that black people have to be worthy enough not to be abused. Even if Rashford never fed the kids or Saka wasn’t only 19 or Sancho didn’t open up new pitches in south london they still deserve the same respect and shouldn’t be subjected to racism period
Stewards intervene on a Denmark supporter who was holding up a rainbow flag before the UEFA EURO 2020 quarter-final football match between the Czech Republic and Denmark at the Olympic Stadium in Baku on July 3, 2021.
i really hope the denmark nt are taken care of after what they’ve been through today, nobody should have to form a human shield around their team mate being resuscitated to stop cameras from filming them
isnt it ironic that the FA, FIFA and UEFA would ban the players that played in the european super league but still can’t work out what punishment to give to racists 😳
However the match continued after 25 minutes with Diakhaby being subbed off and sat on the bench.
Valencia-player Gaya said after the match they were presented with a few options in the dressing room: Return to the field, or lose the 3 points and risk a possible further point deduction.
UEFA tells us to say no to racism, but when a club does they get told to get back on the field otherwise they will get punished. Let that sink in.
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Edit: Valencia also confirming they were asked/told to get back on the field because they would be punished if not.
I think it’s important to note that Valencia’s club official statement that Diakhaby asked his teammates to return to the pitch differs in a small but significant way from comments made by coach Javi Gracia. The latter emphasised that Diakhaby was upset and asked not to continue himself but understood that his teammates would go back out. Diakhaby was not the proponent, especially not main proponent, of continuing the match, as the club said. Portraying the team’s return to the pitch as Diakhaby’s wish places the responsibility of the decision on him and attempts to paint a concession to racism as positive, since it was blessed by the victim of the racism. Extremely manipulative and disappointing on Valencia’s part.
However the match continued after 25 minutes with Diakhaby being subbed off and sat on the bench.
Valencia-player Gaya said after the match they were presented with a few options in the dressing room: Return to the field, or lose the 3 points and risk a possible further point deduction.
UEFA tells us to say no to racism, but when a club does they get told to get back on the field otherwise they will get punished. Let that sink in.
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Edit: Valencia also confirming they were asked/told to get back on the field because they would be punished if not.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Eugénie Le Sommer said: “I have a somewhat mixed feeling. It’s good that this day exists, it’s a victory to bring these issues to the forefront, but at the same time, what do we do the rest of the year? Is the movement really on the move, do we continue to talk about it and act? Women’s rights is all year round, not just on 8 March! »
“The next essential step will be the establishment of a fully professional league. There are still too many disparities between clubs. Some have all their players under contract, so they can devote themselves 100% to football. Others have a minority of players under contract and the rest of the squad has to work during the day and train in the evenings. The former are therefore more efficient. It is also necessary to continue developing mass football as the FFF is doing to have an even larger pool of talent for top-level clubs and French teams. »
"I’d call it a challenge, to show people that girls can play football. Football is everything to me, it’s been my passion since I was a child, it was an obvious choice. I would have done anything to play. This passion and desire became my driving force. Of course, being a girl and playing in my time was not easy. There was a different look from people, I heard things of course… But I built myself through that and this passion helped me to overcome the obstacles. »
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Good day ladies. Be proud of who you are ❤️
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Source: fff.fr
Guardian analysis indicates shocking figure over the past decade likely to be an underestimate, as preparations for 2022 tournament continue
More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, the Guardian can reveal.
The findings, compiled from government sources, mean an average of 12 migrant workers from these five south Asian nations have died each week since the night in December 2010 when the streets of Doha were filled with ecstatic crowds celebrating Qatar’s victory. [...]
Behind the statistics lie countless stories of devastated families who have been left without their main breadwinner, struggling to gain compensation and confused about the circumstances of their loved one’s death.
Ghal Singh Rai from Nepal paid nearly £1,000 in recruitment fees for his job as a cleaner in a camp for workers building the Education City World Cup stadium. Within a week of arriving, he killed himself.
Another worker, Mohammad Shahid Miah, from Bangladesh, was electrocuted in his worker accommodation after water came into contact with exposed electricity cables.
In India, the family of Madhu Bollapally have never understood how the healthy 43-year old died of “natural causes” while working in Qatar. His body was found lying on his dorm room floor. [...]
The committee organising the World Cup in Qatar, when asked about the deaths on stadium projects, said: “We deeply regret all of these tragedies and investigated each incident to ensure lessons were learned. We have always maintained transparency around this issue and dispute inaccurate claims around the number of workers who have died on our projects.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for Fifa, football’s world governing body, said it is fully committed to protecting the rights of workers on Fifa projects. “With the very stringent health and safety measures on site … the frequency of accidents on Fifa World Cup construction sites has been low when compared to other major construction projects around the world,” they said, without providing evidence.
