Articles tagged with "women"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Now we know why Russia have been playing such an attack-minded game at Euro 2008. According to The Sun (motto: "all the boobs that's fit ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
So you've got Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Olof Mellberg, Freddie Ljunberg and Kim Kallstrom (we think - he plays for Svenska, right?). Some pretty good talent there. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Mar 16th, 2008
It wasn't so long ago that the US women were making headlines for their sorority-esque exclusion of outspoken goalkeeper Hope Solo after the team flamed ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Nov 9th, 2006
The Berlin Senate has issued a report that attributes the lack of fan violence at the World Cup in Germany in part to the large ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 23rd, 2006
Looks like Associated Press has subscribed to our cause! ;)
Here is a nice article that kind of sums up what we have been campaigning for ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis Paulo | May 20th, 2006
The Portuguese players were amused when they got to the National Stadium yesterday. The FPF gathered over 20,000 thousand women for a human flag. Even ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2006
There was a major blow delivered to Iranian women’s hope to attend sports events. This one came from the very top. Apparently Islamic Republic’s Supreme ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 4th, 2006
I can’t help but wonder at the irony of all this. In Iran the government and the football federation do whatever they can to keep ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 29th, 2006
Tehran’s unusual visitors.
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 26th, 2006
As expected Iranian hardliners reacted quickly to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that women should be allowed in stadiums. The signs are that the civilian government is ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 24th, 2006
Hurray for all of you who were involved in this by spreading the word or signing the petition(s).
According to a number of news agencies, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 17th, 2006
Three years ago an Iranian first division club took an extraordinary step; it allowed a small group of female fans to attend a game in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 12th, 2006
Many of you may not know this, but Iranian women do participate in organized football, which makes their ban from football stadiums even more puzzling.
Anyhow, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 7th, 2006
In light of what happened in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, a couple of friends of mine who happened to be big football fans put together an ...
