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Sahar Khodayari (Persian: سحر خدایاری [sæhær xodɒjɒriː]; c. 1990 – 9 September 2019), [2] also known as the Blue Girl, [a] was an Iranian football fan who self-immolated in Tehran to protest the national laws banning females from attending sports events and entering stadiums since the Islamic Revolution.
The origin of the ultras movement is disputed, [12] with many supporters groups from various countries making claims solely on the basis of their dates of foundation. The level of dispute and confusion is aided by a contemporary tendency (mainly in Europe) to categorise all groups of overtly fanatical supporters as ultras.
In 1964 more than 300 football fans died and another 500 were injured in Lima, Peru in a riot during an Olympic qualifying match between Argentina and Peru on 24 May. [235] On 11 April 1967 in Argentina, before a match between Huracán and Racing de Avellaneda, a 15 year old Racing fan was murdered by the Huracán barra brava at the Tomás ...
FIFA docked six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s soccer tournament and banned three coaches for one year each on Saturday in a drone-spying scandal. The stunning swath of ...
A French soccer commercial went viral ahead of the 2023 Women’s World Cup for pointing out gender biases in the sport.. The clip — which has made its rounds on social media and has more than 4 ...
The post Soccer World Reacts To The Crazy Laser Pointers Situation appeared first on The Spun. Senegal qualified for the 2022 World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Egypt in penalty kicks. They had ...
The resulting culture is a mix of several supporting styles such as scarf-waving and chanting. A supporters' group can number from a handful of fans to hundreds, and often claim entire sections of a stadium for themselves. According to a writer for Spiked, the four core points of the ultra mentality are: [3]
In North America, the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), which has played since 2013, features multiple teams that have averaged more than 20,000 attendance per league match over the course of a season and set a record of 32,000 attendance in 2022, [71] and Mexico's Liga MX Femenil has drawn more than 50,000 in attendance and 2.8 million ...