On a soccer pitch in a central London park, Sisterhood Football Club – a Muslim women’s team – is making a substitution. “Your hijab, tuck it in. It can’t get in the way,” a teammate calls out as the ...
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Some high school Muslim football players are fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, even as they practice several hours a day each week. High School Football And Ramadan Football practice is a ...
What could be more American? Dozens of young men in Orange County have planned a football tournament for the New Year’s weekend in Irvine. But this gathering of Muslim American athletes on the ...
An Albuquerque law firm commissioned by New Mexico State University to look into allegations of religious discrimination in the football program found none, the school said Tuesday.The Miller ...
Aside from the protesters, the television crews, the female spectators in hijabs, the media boycott by the teams and the midday prayers on the sidelines, the inaugural Muslim football tournament in ...
I’m a comms assistant, football writer and Witnesham Wasps’ Most Improved Player of the Year 2006/07. I wrote this piece as it highlights how football can not only be a place where anyone can belong, ...
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an evangelical Christian football coach in Bremerton, Washington, had the right to pray on the field after games. So what if the coach had been ...
On Monday evening, Leicester City’s game against Crystal Palace paused on the half-hour mark to allow Muslim footballers Wesley Fofana and Cheikhou Kouyate to break their fast. The pause took less ...
Those moments unwritten from the pages of history are often simply missing a stage. But for the Moroccan team taking to the field in Qatar to face off against heavily favored Spain on Tuesday, a new ...
LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - On a soccer pitch in a central London park, Sisterhood Football Club - a Muslim women's team - is making a substitution. "Your hijab, tuck it in. It can't get in the way," a ...