The Palestine National Football Team achieved an historic victory against the Kuwait National Football Team on Monday, January 18, for the first time in 19 years. Palestine hopes that its victory, in this international friendly, […]
Just recently Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, a member of the UAE royal family, has pledged to invest 300 million shekels, or about $90 million, into the Beitar (Jerusalem) club over the next decade. […]
Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to “influence the real world”. Referring to sports commentary […]
The 20th century’s greatest footballer, Diego Armando Maradona, died in San Andrés, Argentina, at the age of 60. The Argentine Football Association reported that the cause of death was cardiac arrest. Maradona has been struggling […]
Palestinian athletes from the Salam (Peace) Club in Gaza return to their regular training to prepare for upcoming competitions. The Salam Club, which constitutes entirely from Palestinian youth who have lost a leg during the […]
Life in Gaza is slowly getting back to normal, well, as normal as possible considering the protracted Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. Gaza authority, like other governments in the region and around the world, […]
Filmmaker Patrice Forget shot an original documentary that is based on a soccer match organized in the French town of Martigues, in July 2019, between a Palestinian team from Gaza and a French counterpart. All […]
Boycott Campaign – Palestine (BCP) yesterday condemned Argentina and Uruguay for playing an international friendly match in Tel Aviv. Despite Israel’s recent aggression on Gaza killing 35 Palestinians, Argentina and Uruguay national football teams are […]
Transport for London (TfL), the transport network for the UK’s capital, on Wednesday stated that it would immediately remove numerous posters that urged commuters to boycott international sports brand Puma because of its sponsorship of […]
President Mahmoud Abbas received Saudi Arabia’s national soccer team in the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, praising this visit and stressing that it embodies the historical relationship between Palestine and the […]
A Palestinian group on Monday denounced a planned football match between Saudi Arabia and Palestine in the West Bank because it would require Saudi players to apply for visiting permits directly from Israel. The Popular Front for […]
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most successful, yet divisive athletes in the world. Adored by his fans for his amazing achievement, Ronaldo also has an army of critics who hate his obsession with appearance […]
An Israeli court yesterday upheld a travel ban for Palestinian footballers from the occupied Gaza Strip, accepting the position of military and security officials who made the original decision. According to human rights group Gisha, the […]
Just recently Israeli police stormed the YMCA in Jerusalem in order to cancel a memorial service for the late sports activist Ahmed Adela. The ceremony also included the honoring of his colleagues from the Association […]
FIFA is turning a blind eye to Israel’s ban on allowing Palestinians to hold matches as part of the Palestine Cup, Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor said yesterday. In a statement, the rights group said that the Israeli […]
Israeli media reported on Sunday that footballers from Spain’s Real Madrid football club have refused to work with a fitness coach, because of his use of software developed by experts at the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ […]
Just recently at the United States-brokered conference in Bahrain FIFA pledged to build more football pitches in the Palestinian “Territories” to present the economic side of a settlement plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The President […]
Protesters will target Puma stores on Saturday, urging the sportswear brand to end its deal with Israel’s football association, Palestinian activists said on Saturday. Protesters argue that Puma’s decision to become the main sponsor of the Israel Football […]
The chief of the Palestinian Football Federation (PFF), Jibril Rajoub, has sent letters to the European and Spanish football associations asking for Atletico Madrid to cancel a post-season May 21 friendly match with Israeli Beitar […]
Most of sport sociologists believe that nothing awakens national feeling so easily and strongly as sporting success. Glorious history, royalty, a splendid army, democracy and the welfare system, ancient ideals and traditions – none of […]
The national Palestinian beach soccer team was able to advance to the semi-finals in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Beach Soccer Championships, which kicked off in Pattaya, Thailand on March 7, for the first time […]
Sport has never been isolated from social, economic or political aspects. Certainly, the existence of sport outside the political arena is rare, and in many cases, we see the overlap between sport and politics so […]
Palestine still has a possibility to progress to the Round of 16 of the Asian Cup 2019. If that actualizes, it would be the first time in the history of the team to reach that […]
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) has officially requested that the national football team boycott their second Asian Cup group match against Palestine. The request to the Football Federation Australia (FFA) demanded the boycott on the […]
The Football AFC Asian Cup 2019, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, kicked off on Saturday with 24 teams competing in the group phase, the largest staging of the tournament. Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Al Ain, […]
Europe’s governing football body has banned Israel’s national broadcaster from showing World Cup and Euro 2020 football matches in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli broadcaster Kan bid around $5.8 million for the […]
Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, whose arrest last year drew international condemnation, has been honored by Spanish football club Real Madrid after she was released from Israeli prison. The 17-year-old was arrested in December 2017 after […]
The head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) has said that he will appeal against his year-long FIFA ban for inciting fans against Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi. Jibril Rajoub said on Monday that he was […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The national football team of Argentina has generated official backlash and grassroots anger on social media as it is scheduled to play a friendly match against Israel in occupied Jerusalem on […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Fans of Scottish football club Celtic flew Palestinian flags during a match in solidarity with Gaza protesters killed by Israeli forces last week. Celtic fans stand with Palestine God bless the […]
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