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The right to play (11 vs 100) Great Danish initiative! |
20/05/2013
Denmark is one of the richest countries in the world. Still 65.000 children can't afford to participate in club sports.Let's get united! Support children's right to play!
According to United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child article 31; Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities. The Danish Women's National Team stands united with Save the Children Denmark to create awareness about children's right to play.
11 women, 100 kids, 1 referee, 1 football, 10 minutes, 1 football stadium, 1 common goal.
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Football: Notts County coaches quit in racist storm (globalpost.com) |
20/05/2013
Notts County, one of the very few clubs in the English Football League to employ a black manager, are at the centre of a racism storm, the Daily Mirror reported on Saturday. County, managed by former Ipswich Town, Arsenal and QPR striker Chris Kiwomya, have parted company with two youth team coaches accused of racist behaviour towards trainees at the club. Brett Adams and Lee Broster both resigned after a club hearing on Friday, the Mirror said. Both were accused of racially abusing black youngsters at the training ground.
Kiwomya was said to have been unaware of the incidents at the time. The claims were made by two trainees at the third-tier League One side, and their official complaints were backed up by several other players, both black and white. In statements, players expressed shock at what they had witnessed and one voiced concern that he could be released for speaking out but was willing to risk it as he felt the treatment he received was unacceptable.
A club statement said: "Brett Adams and Lee Broster have resigned from their positions at the club as Youth Coach and Lead Foundation Coach respectively. "We thank them for their service and wish them every success for the future."
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Galatasaray: Didier Drogba questions racists who abused him (bbc.co.uk) |
20/05/2013
Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba has hit back at the racists who abused him in Sunday's heated Istanbul derby at rivals Fenerbahce. Drogba, 35, and his Ivorian team-mate Emmanuel Eboue were subjected to monkey chants during the game. "You called me monkey and forgot you jumped my brother [who] scored twice," he wrote on his club's Facebook page.
Drogba was referring to Cameroon striker Pierre Webo, who scored both of Fenerbahce's goals in their 2-1 win. A supporter for the hosts at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium was also reported to have pointed a banana at Drogba and Eboue. Drogba joined Galatasaray from Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua in January,scoring five league goals in his new club's run this season to winning a record 19th Turkish title. The Ivory Coast international had previously won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups and one Champions League trophy during an eight-year spell with Chelsea.
"You call me a monkey but you cried when Chelsea beat Fenerbahce in 2008 [in the Champions League], you called me monkey but you jumped in front of your screen when I won the Champions League [with Chelsea in May 2012]," Drogba continued. "You called me monkey but you got mad when I became champion with Galatasaray [this season]." Drogba further questioned how anyone involved in such behaviour could be "a true fan" of a Fenerbahce team that contains Webo, as well as players such as Senegal international Moussa Sow.
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Has the evolution of the beautiful game been for better or worse? (bbc.co.uk) |
17/05/2013
English football has never been more popular, more powerful or more wealthy. In the space of just two decades, the Premier League has transformed the way the game is played, watched and run in this country. Run-down grounds have been turned into shiny, all-seater stadiumswith megastores and restaurants serving three-course meals and fine wines. More women and children are going to games and, apart from Millwall's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley two weeks ago, crowd trouble inside stadiums is extremely rare.
I remember when things were very different. In the 1980s, when I started watching football, most grounds were clapped out old relics. All fenced-in terraces and stands with corrugated roofs. The atmosphere could often be sinister and forbidding. The experience of watching a game in this country is now, happily, unrecognisable from those days. The Hillsborough disaster forced the game to change and fans now enjoy a much more comfortable and enjoyable experience. Yet there is still a nagging sense that something has been lost. That, in the rush to cash in on the economic boom of the 1990s, clubs left their core audience behind.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been working on a film for BBC News: The Editors programme on how the national game has changed. I met parents and children at a junior football game in Bracknell. I got up at the crack of dawn to travel from Manchester to Wembley with 10 bus loads of Man City fans bound for their club's FA Cup semi-final with Chelsea. And I went to Germany's industrial heartland to see the head of Borussia Dortmund, one of the powerhouses of the resurgent Bundesliga.
Everyone I spoke to was full of admiration for what the Premier League and English football had achieved in recent times. But all said they had concerns - whether it was over ticket prices, players failing in their role as role models or owners exploiting supporters. Hans Joachim Watzke, the chief executive of Dortmund, says clubs like his ensure fans feel a part of the club by involving them as members. Thanks to the 50 plus one rule, no one businessman or company can take control of German clubs. He believes the English ownership model results in fans being treated as clients and has killed the romance of the game.
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