Europe Frets Over Virus Spreading at Parties, Beaches
Europeans are letting their guard down despite experts and leaders sounding the alarm about a potential resurgence of the new
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FIFA Fraud
The Second Circuit affirmed the conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud convictions of former FIFA officials Juan Ángel Napout and José Maria Marin. The convictions of the former international soccer association officials “rest upon permissible domestic applications of the wire fraud statute.”
Read moreFC Cincinnati and Its Former Consulting Firm File Dueling Breach of Contract Suits
Futbol Club Cincinnati’s soon-to-be completed soccer stadium has not hosted a game yet, but the battle over the stadium’s naming rights has spilled into the courts as the soccer club and its former consulting firm filed competing lawsuits on Monday.
Read moreHand Gesture
A college soccer player who lost her athletic scholarship after showing her middle finger to a camera that was broadcasting her game on ESPNU cannot pursue her First Amendment, Title IX and other claims against the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees, a federal court in the state ruled.
Read moreWomen’s Soccer
The U.S. women’s soccer team filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Friday against a federal court decision that dismissed their equal pay claims against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Read moreJudge Rejects Equal-Pay Claims by US Women’s Soccer Team
The U.S. Women’s soccer team’s gender discrimination lawsuit deflated Friday when a federal judge in Los Angeles granted U.S. Soccer Federation summary judgment, finding women earned more in cumulative pay and rejecting claims women would have earned more under the men’s team’s pay structure.
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New FIFA Indictment Ensnares Ex-Fox Executives
Two former Fox executives are charged with bribing soccer officials, as U.S. prosecutors fine-tuned charging papers Monday in the sprawling FIFA corruption scandal.
Read moreUS Soccer Abandons Skill Argument in Women’s Equal Pay Lawsuit
After being criticized for claiming the U.S. women’s national soccer team should earn less money because their game requires less skill than the men’s game, the sport’s U.S. governing body on Thursday finalized removal of the claim from court filings.
Read moreCompassionate Release
Citing the risk of the Covid-19 outbreak, a federal judge ordered compassionate release Monday for 87-year-old former Brazilian soccer boss Jose Maria Marin.
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European Court Tosses Loan Penalties Against Soccer Teams
Europe’s second-highest court handed a victory Thursday to two debt-ridden Spanish soccer teams, invalidating orders that forced them to pay back millions of euros to a state bank that guaranteed loans for them.
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Manchester City Files Appeal Against UEFA Ban at CAS
Manchester City has filed an expected appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a two-year ban from European soccer competition.
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Women Seek $66 Million From US Soccer
Players on the U.S. women’s national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages in their gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
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Swiss Prosecutors Charge Al-Khelaifi in FIFA Bribery Case
Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi was charged Thursday by Swiss federal prosecutors in connection with a wider bribery investigation linked to FIFA and World Cup television rights.
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Transgender Woman Poised to Make Argentine Soccer History
Dozens of trophies, balls and cups sit on two worn, wooden shelves in the small home in a Buenos Aires suburb of Mara Gómez, who is poised to become the first transgender woman to play professional soccer in Argentina.
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Soccer Clubs Lose Case to Force Promotion-Relegation on MLS
A long-running lawsuit looking to force promotion and relegation on to Major League Soccer has failed.
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US Judge: Claim Against Ronaldo Belongs in Arbitration
A legal fight by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo against a Nevada woman who wants more than the $375,000 she received in a rape case hush-money settlement in 2010 should be decided by an arbitrator, not in a courtroom, a U.S. magistrate judge said Tuesday.
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California Settles With Soccer Fan Over ‘Come On You Whites’ Vanity Plate
A constitutional law professor who was barred from personalizing his license plate to honor his favorite soccer club scored a victory against the DMV on Tuesday after California officials agreed to settle his free speech lawsuit.
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Colombian Soccer Star Seeks Answers on Disappeared Father
The newly appointed chief of Colombia’s army says he is willing to meet with soccer star Juan Fernando Quintero to discuss his father’s disappearance more than 20 years ago.
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Uganda: 7 Eritrean Soccer Players Disappear After Tournament
A Ugandan official says seven Eritrean soccer players have disappeared at the end of a regional tournament.
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Premier League Not Following FIFA Advice for Handling Racism
When FIFA asked every competition to enforce a three-step procedure in response to racism at matches, the English Premier League did not follow the advice.
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