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Mary Earps' My Game In My Words, looking back at the #Lioness' Euros saves: 💃How dancing helps with hip mobility ⚽️ Her penalty process 🧠 Lucy Bronze's mind games ⏸️ Hitting pause to dictate tempo 🎯Her job as a goalkeeper The Athletic | Football theathletic.com/4709391/2023/0…

How does Sarina Wiegman manage? A peak behind the curtain of her process: 📔Plans A, B and C ⛔️Shutting down leaks 😠That one time she got mad 🏆 Her old red bra as an in-camp contest prize 🤔 Difficult decisions 💃Not a rock star The Athletic | Football theathletic.com/4646995/2023/0…

It has been a week of scandal, claim & counter-claim since Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales kissed World Cup-winner Jenni Hermoso on the lips on Sunday. Ali Rampling explains in this timeline of events what has happened each day and who has said what. theathletic.com/4807705/?sourc…

⚽ Competed in tournaments with Ronaldinho, Hazard, Zaha, Abraham and Iwobi ⚽ David Ornstein helped announce their new manager ⚽Social media following more than several Champ clubs Read more on the amazing story of Baiteze Squad on The Athletic | Football theathletic.com/4777226/2023/0…

■ "Me playing in Saudi is a positive" ■ "It's not about money" ■ "I understand criticism from LGBTQ+ groups" ■ "You have to respect Saudi religion & culture" ■ "If one person at #LFC asked me to stay, I would have" Jordan Henderson speaks to David Ornstein & Adam Crafton

A club who once relied on supporters giving blood to survive are about to play against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu. Stuart James explains the remarkable story of Union Berlin and why The Athletic is joining them for their first Champions League adventure.

Spain came together with Sweden on the halfway line to collectively display the banner. The world champions also received a standing ovation from the home crowd at Gamla Ullevi as they ran out to warm up. More from Laia Cervelló Herrero and Ali Rampling theathletic.com/4889738/?sourc…

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An incredible, exclusive look behind the curtain of a WSL referees’ feedback session AND an inside view on some of those controversial card calls🕵️‍♀️🔥 ⁦Charlotte Harpur⁩ | ⁦The Athletic | Football⁩ theathletic.com/4945171/2023/1…

In Saudi Arabia, women's rights are heavily restricted by men. In this special report, Charlotte Harpur and others ask whether a country hoping to recruit the game's biggest names can really be a major player in women's football. Saudi Arabia, women's football's next frontier?

⚽️11,000 players aged 8-18 are released from academies every year. ⚽️In 1999, #LCFC ‘s Wes Morgan was one of those kids. Here is how Morgan and the Premier League are helping those young players on The Athletic | Football : 👇🏾 theathletic.com/4886152/2023/1…

Emma Hayes says “the time is right” for her to leave Chelsea after it was confirmed on Saturday she would be departing the club at the end of the season following 12 years in charge. 📝 Charlotte Harpur and Ali Rampling ➡️ theathletic.com/5051874/?sourc…

The Football Association has opened a formal investigation into the circumstances surrounding death of Maddy Cusack and her family’s complaint about Jonathan Morgan, the manager of Sheffield United’s women’s team. #SUFC More from Daniel Taylor ⬇️ theathletic.com/5226902/?utm_m…

Former Forest Green Rovers head coach Troy Deeney threatened to punch a match official in the face before calling him a “weasel” during December’s loss to Swindon Town. The former Watford striker received a four-game touchline ban and £1,500 fine this month following two FA

Chelsea make contract offer to Lyon head coach Sonia Bompastor to replace Emma Hayes who leaves for the #USWNT at end of season. Nothing finalised yet and negotiations ongoing. Bompastor’s contract with Lyon expires in 2025. The Athletic | Football theathletic.com/5274644/2024/0…

🚨 For the first time ever, a players union has filed a criminal complaint against a football club over alleged 'bullying and harassment' of players. Comes amid FIFPRO warnings of 'widespread' behaviour across sport and renewed awareness The Athletic | Football theathletic.com/5293731/2024/0…

Arsenal interested in signing #Lioness Keira Walsh from Barcelona. Walsh has 1 yr left on her contract. The WSL club may be interested but whether a fee or contract can be agreed is another matter. The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/55647…

Topless Englishmen are singing about Scotland getting battered. Everywhere you look people are drinking. Music is blaring. It's 2pm. Welcome to Benidorm on Euros final day, home to surely the biggest concentration of England and Spain fans anywhere outside of Berlin. Tim Spiers

The door to Maddy Cusack’s bedroom almost always remains closed these days. It’s a year since her death and maybe we should talk about Maddy, the person - not just Maddy, the story.  Please read (no paywall via link) The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/57607…

Ronnie Gibbons was the Fulham Ladies captain. She says she was twice shut in a room with Mohamed Al Fayed, the owner of her football club, at Harrods and he sexually abused her. “I was used.” This is her story: nytimes.com/athletic/58515… With David Ornstein for The Athletic | Football