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violence
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24 January 2012
Despite a slight decrease in the number of fatalities, 2011 became a new statement of the violence in Argentinean football and nothing indicates a turn for the better. Javier Szlifman reports on the hooliganism haunting the big...[more]
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13 July 2010
Are the media giving racist supporters an additional and wider stage by offering them exposure? Or are the media merely reporting facts and mirroring society? Rosarita Cuccoli, Secretary General of the International Association...[more]
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02 September 2009
In August it was announced that rugby would be up for election as an Olympic sport at the Olympic Congress in October. But the joy this announcement caused in the world of rugby has been replaced with worries as a series of...[more]
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05 November 2008
In 2004 North Americans a bizarre story began to unfold when police arrested NHL player Mike Danton after a play-off game on conspiracy to murder charges.
What we heard became nearly theatre of the absurd in a tale that...[more]
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17 September 2008
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is backing a formal complaint to UEFA against the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) and its president Mircea Sandu, after the football federation allegedly encouraged footballers to...[more]
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10 August 2007
Football is unsafe in the FIFA senior vice-president’s country. Violence seems unstoppable in Argentina’s most popular sport and the latest fight took a victim outside a stadium, when a local supporter killed a visiting fan,...[more]
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31 January 2007
The behaviour of violent fans at a match in Nancy last November, has cost the Dutch club Feyenoord its place in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup after UEFA's Appeals Body decided to exclude the Rotterdam team from all UEFA competitons this...[more]
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22 December 2006
At a recent meeting no less than 600 people cheered for FIFA vice president Julio Grondona and encouraged him to run for the eighth consecutive reelection as president of the Argentinian Football Association (AFA). The rally...[more]
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27 November 2006
Two Argentinian sports journalists have been beaten up by football fans that were angry with one of the journalists after he had accused fans of threatening players in order to harm a rival team. The journalists were only rescued...[more]
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08 November 2006
In Iraq kidnappers have released a blind Iraqi athlete and a paralympic coach just two days after capturing them. The two men’s experience is an exception to the rule as athletes in Iraq continue to be prime targets of abduction...[more]
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