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Following a landmark season, kicking off with a broadcast deal with Apple worth $2.5 billion and the signing of soccer legend Lionel Messi to Inter Miami, Major League Soccer continues to cement itself within North American sport culture. With some of the biggest names in music and entertainment becoming fans, the league’s hip-hop connection was the ideal starting point for the league’s new digital feature, Major League Soccer’s The Jersey Swap.

Rocket League has been a well-known name in the gaming community for years now. A thriving E-sport as well as a loyal community, Rocket League continues to add more cosmetics to keep your cars looking fresh and clean as you drive and fly around the stadium.

Patterns, London teen Liam (Rufus Gleave) wishes for guidance from the poster boy on his wall, English rugby champion Ben Cohen, and, in the show’s camp comedy fashion, his wish is granted.Stepping directly out of a shirtless poster into Liam’s room, the former pro winger materializes to help the kid build up the confidence to conquer school bullies, and finally come out to his, incidentally, pretty DILF-y dad, Preston (Matthew Simpson).The role came as a natural fit for Cohen, who has long put combating bullying and homophobia at the center of his activism, founding the Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation in 2011. Few world-class professional athletes, who are straight, have worn their LGBTQ allyship as prominently or as proudly as Cohen, who goes so far in Patterns as to dance a dream ballet in a crop tee and cutoff shorts, all for the sake of supporting Liam, and kids like him.“This was a great opportunity to be a role model and to help support [Patterns director-producer] Rex [Glensy] through something that I’ve probably always been curious of, with acting,” Cohen says over a video call from his home in the English countryside.Though Cohen has made several non-sports-related TV appearances, most famously as a contestant on season 13 of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, he had “never really acted before, in front of the camera.”He credits Gleave, the episode’s young lead, with supporting him.

With the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup coming up, FIFA is facing scrutiny for endorsing hotels that discriminate based on sexuality.As ticket sales skyrocket for this year’s FIFA World Cup, organizers are attempting to crack down on endorsed hotels that violate their contracts by discriminating against guests. FIFA has required all official list accommodations to welcome guests – including LGBTQ people – in a “non-discriminatory manner” or face being removed from their official list.The World Cup will be held in Qatar from November 21 to December 18.FIFA’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy said that no discrimination would be occurring at the soccer competition.

3 min read In a plot twist that not even TV’s break out hit Ted Lasso has tackled (pardon the pun), 17-year-old Jake Daniels has become the first UK male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay and has been praised for his bravery by everyone, including Josh Cavallo, the Australian player whose […]

Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, is being sued by Vardy in London’s High Court after she called her out on Instagram over the alleged leaks.“This is a case essentially about betrayal,” Ronney’s lawyer, David Sherborne, said in opening written submissions at the start of the trial, the LBC reported.In court, Rooney’s lawyer claimed Vardy “was responsible for regularly abusing her status as a trusted follower of [Rooney’s] personal Instagram account by secretly informing The Sun of [Rooney’s] private posts and stories.”Rooney has said she tried to snuff out the leaker by posting fake tales on purpose over the course of several months. Eventually, Rooney said she blocked everyone apart from an accounting belonging to Vardy from her Instagram stories.

Katie Meyer, 22, the goaltender for the Stanford women’s soccer team, has tragically passed away in a campus residence, reported the New York Post. “Katie was extraordinarily committed to everything and everyone in her world,” Stanford vice provost for student affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole and athletic director Bernard Muir said in a message on the university’s communications site, not revealing the cause of death.

Damn. Can a couple be any better looking?! One would think that David and Victoria Beckham — who have been together for more than two decades — are two humans lifted straight out of a fantasy epic. Like, they can’t be real, right? Oh, yes, my friends.

came out as gay last month and received praise and support from across the soccer world.

Truck parked adjacent to Arthur Avenue on Crescent Avenue and Adams Place.Each time Italy scores, this Neapolitan brick-oven pizza spot near Union Square erupts like Mount Vesuvius.

the FA Cup broadcast on the bar’s patio while their kids played inside. “This place probably saved my marriage,” Oshunrinde, 55, an architect, laughed. “It’s a place to go for the boys to run around.” “It’s perfect,” Atwell, 39, agreed. “We don’t worry what the kids are up to here.” The Ground’s reputation is already well established, with world superstar Samuel Eto’o having visited and retired US national team goalkeeper Tim Howard stopping in to “talk to the kids,” said Marius Bugge, Sierros’

NYCFC.com/FreeFootball. Each week, game locations and schedules will be posted on the site.In addition to learning soccer skills and the fundamentals of the game, kids will also be taught about sportsmanship and leadership.

Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek says that he is interested in buying English Premier League club Arsenal if its current owners, Kroenke Sports Enterprises, are willing to sell. Ek tweeted out his intention to "throw my hat into the ring" in a tweet on Friday afternoon, as thousands of Arsenal fans protested against KSE outside the Emirates Stadium before a league game with Everton.

“A Century of Champions” auction without explanation Friday.That the Jules Rimet memento was even up for bid was as shocking to Team Pelé as the US men winning a World Cup. “That trophy is very important to Pelé.

Cristiano Ronaldo has entered quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19.The striker was due to lead his country’s team against Sweden in Wednesday’s (October 14, 2020) UEFA Nation’s League clash, but he has been forced to sit out the game.A statement released by officials at the Portuguese Football Federation on Tuesday reads: “Cristiano Ronaldo was released from training with the national team after a positive test for COVID-19, so he will not face Sweden.Did you know Cristiano Ronaldo is

the athlete shared a photo of himself having a mask-less dinner with his teammates. The rest of Ronaldo’s team was also tested for Covid-19, but all of there tests have come back negative.“Ronaldo is doing great.

Natalie Portman has her Oscar, a contract with Dior, major roles in both the MCU and Star Wars, a Harvard degree, and more than a few cult classics under her belt. What else is a Hollywood superstar supposed to do? Well, apparently the next step is professional sports team ownership.

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3 min read Thomas Beattie has come out as gay, the second Englishman to come out from the major soccer leagues and yet still no playing footballer from the Premier League has ever taken the step.

The new Amazon series “El Presidente,” premiering Friday, lays bare the 2015 FIFA soccer scandal that exposed the international organization’s wide-ranging corruption, resulting in the ouster of its president, Sepp Blatter, and the arrests of top-tier members — including US officials.

Netflix has set in motion a feature centered on the 1999 U.S. Women’s Soccer team winning the FIFA World Cup. Who can forget the iconic moment when Brandi Chastain scored the winning penalty shootout goal and took her jersey off in celebration?

South African soccer player Mpho Makola is celebrating his 34th birthday today. To celebrate the midfielder’s special day we are sharing some fun facts about the player with you.

Even after by the U.S. Soccer Federation led to the resignation of their president, a federal judge has officially dismissed the U.S.

Former Brazilan footballer Ricardo Kaka is celebrating his 38th birthday today. To celebrate the attacking midfielder’s day of birth, we are sharing some fun facts about the man with you.

While we’ve been on lockdown, there’s been none of the usual live sport to entertain us. Now sports stars have taken the gap on their social media accounts by keeping us amused with some homegrown antics!  We take a look at what they have been up to.

Happy birthday to former Bafana Bafana and Leeds United captain Lucas Radebe, who celebrates his 51st today! We take a look at some fun facts about the man.

Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana Bafana soccer star Andile Jali hits the big three-oh today! To celebrate this milestone we share some fun facts about the man with you.

Former Bafana Bafana defender Siboniso Gaxa turns 36 today! To mark the occasion we share some fun facts about the soccer star with you.

Bodacious MMA star Valerie Loureda is denying she’s had a boob job and says she has a “most natural body.”

The fates of a 19th-century cotton mill, two rival soccer teams and a troubled marriage are bound together in “The English Game,” a mild entertainment from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes. Anglophiles frothing at the mouth for Lord Fellowes’ usual costume-drama eye candy may be disappointed, as the bulk of the story takes place in the grimy world of serving wenches, poorly lit taverns, muddy roads and grim cotton mills of Lancashire. Maggie Smith does not drop in for an acerbic cameo.

OL Reign players Megan Rapinoe, right, and Allie Long, are photographed on July 28, 2019, in Tacoma, Washington, at Cheney Stadium. Photo: OL Reign

If you thought the U.S. Women's Soccer Team was going to stay quiet about recent regarding their equal pay lawsuit, you don't know this USWNT.In case you missed it, earlier this week court filings revealed some of the arguments U.S.

Last summer when the won the World Cup (their fourth) in France, the stadium erupted into Despite the women's team's total dominance, they're paid less than their male counterparts, an issue that came to a head in March 2019 when the players .Back in August 2019, we learned had broken down—and a new court filing this week gives us insight, perhaps, into why.Per , the documents show one of the arguments against equal pay being made by U.S.