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🇮🇹 @amnesty.org denounces human rights violations committed by Italian police on October 14 in Udine, during the #ShowIsraelTheRedCard demonstration against the Italy-Israel match.

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November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Carlos Lives"

Last Sunday, Rayo Vallecano fans remembered Carlos Palomino, a 16-year-old anti-fascist activist murdered on November 11, 2007, by a neo-Nazi in the Madrid subway.

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November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Abolish ICE"
"Immigrants Welcome"

San Diego SC fans (with the groups The Locals and Frontera SD) along with the Portland Timbers Army, opponents on the pitch yesterday in MLS but united by the common cause of anti-racism.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🇮🇪 The Football Association of #Ireland (FAI) has decided to back the request for Israel's suspension from international competitions due to the genocide in Palestine.

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November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"It's a very special match for symbolic reasons: playing against #Palestine, with everyone's support for the Palestinian people."

Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta commented on his debut for the Basque national team in the friendly on November 15th against Palestina.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🇬🇧 Yesterday, #Celtic fans booed a minute's silence for Remembrance Day, which remembers the British fallen in all wars, including the one in Northern Ireland.

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November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"Koalas, kangaroos, poisonous snakes: no to #SerieA in Australia, football belongs to the fans."

The banner held by Parma fans during yesterday's match against AC Milan, protesting the possible hosting of the AC Milan-Como match in Perth.

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November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
There's been a lot of talk over the past week about the two Sky Sport interns who celebrated an Inter goal. The truth, however, is that all Italian sports journalists are also fans.

Read the new article (in Italian)👇
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Non si può fare a meno dei giornalisti tifosi
“Chi fa il tifoso, chi dimostra di non essere imparziale o di dare giudizi in qualche modo condizionati anche solo da simpatie o antipatie, verrà giudicato editorialmente inadatto a ricoprire…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free"

The magnificent choreography performed by Samsunspor fans during Thursday's Conference League match against Hamrun Spartans.

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November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🇪🇸 In last night's Conference League match against Lech Poznań, Rayo Vallecano's Bukaneros paid a great tribute to the working class, reclaiming their popular and left-wing roots.

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November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
NEOM Stadium is being touted as a futuristic project, but the Saudi government is significantly downplaying it.

Read THE BEAUTIFUL SHAME, Pallonate in Faccia's English-language newsletter on football, politics, and human rights in #SaudiArabia.

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NEOM Stadium, from fake videos to true budget cut
The NEOM Stadium will be the face of Saudi Vision 2030, but its ambitious realization appears increasingly unlikely.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Maccabi not welcome"
"421 Palestinian football players killed"

This was how Maccabi Tel Aviv was welcomed last night in Birmingham for the Europa League match against Aston Villa. The protest against the Israeli club took place immediately outside the stadium.
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🇸🇩 The war in #Sudan and Manchester City: a problem the football world doesn't want to see.

Pallonate in Faccia on L'UltimoUomo (in Italian).

www.ultimouomo.com/manchester-c...
Perché si parla di un coinvolgimento del Manchester City nella guerra in Sudan – Ultimo Uomo
Una vicenda complicata.
www.ultimouomo.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Everyone is afraid. Everyone is a coward. All eyes on #Sudan."

The chant by fans of Egyptian club Al Ahly during last Sunday's match against Al-Masry.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
" #Trump is one of the people who can change or help change the world," said Cristiano Ronaldo in his recent interview with British journalist Piers Morgan.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
FIFA has invented a World Peace Prize, which will be awarded on December 5th in Washington, during the draw for next summer's World Cup. There's much speculation that the winner will be Donald Trump...

inside.fifa.com/organisation...
FIFA introduces the FIFA Peace Prize - an award to recognise exceptional actions for peace and unity
FIFA has announced the introduction of the “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” to reward individuals who have taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace and by doing so have unit...
inside.fifa.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Osama #Almasri, the former head of the Libyan judicial police accused of torture and murder, was arrested today in Libya. He had already been arrested in Italy last January, where he had come to watch a Serie A match, but was later released by the Italian government.
He had come to Italy to watch Juventus-Milan on Saturday night, and the next day he was recognized and arrested: this is what happened to Njeem Osama #Almasri, head of the Libyan judicial police, torturer of migrants and war criminal.

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November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🇺🇸 Zorhan #Mamdani is the new mayor of New York: a 34-year-old of Indian and Ugandan descent, raised in London, socialist and Muslim. And a huge football/soccer fan, in case you didn't know.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Cristiano Ronaldo is promoting the new book "Woke is Dead" by Piers Morgan, a controversial right-wing British journalist. Morgan and Ronaldo have been friends for a long time, and the footballer has granted him several exclusive interviews.
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Yesterday at the University of Genoa to talk about football and politics. Thank to @mauroberruto.bsky.social for the invitation!
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
" #Palestine will win! Stop the repression of solidarity!"

With this message, displayed last Saturday against Atlético Sanluqueño (Spanish 3rd division), the Eskapulats of Club Esportiu Europa once again took a stand in support of Palestine.
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"Long live the pensioners!"

Last Thursday, the players of Deportivo Español (Argentine's 4th division) showed their solidarity with the pensioners who have been protesting for months against the Milei government's cuts in #Argentina.

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November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Milan-Como? Play it in Tel Aviv!"

The Palermo Calcio Popolare banner, on the Milan-Como case in Perth and the well-known ties between Italy and Israel.
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Beşiktaş fans' choreography for #Palestine in yesterday's match against Fenerbahçe.

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November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🇪🇸 Today, Spanish newspaper El Mundo described Real Madrid player Athenea Del Castillo as a "free thinker who breaks the national team's woke hegemony." Del Castillo is often discussed for her alleged far-right sympathies.

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November 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM