GAZA, March 31, 2025 - He sat on a heap of rubble, as if the weight of everything he’d lost had dropped him from the sky. “I lost a three-story house,“ he kept repeating. “I worked over thirty years to build it. I finally became independent of my family, and the house was bombed to the ground.“This is Saeb Jundiya, former captain of the Palestinian national football team. He was staring at the ruins of his home, sifting through the debris of a life once full. After a year and three months of displacement,...

LAUSANNE, March 29, 2025 - With the goal of enhancing the skills and experiences of high-performance athletes and better preparing them for the labor market with a suitable professional transition, the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) successfully completed another year of the “Athletes’ Career Program,“ Transition Core (PAC), reaching 146 graduated athletes.The Program, an initiative of the COB through the Brazilian Olympic Institute (IOB), supports athletes in their comprehensive development through a...

PARIS, March 28, 2025 - Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body for world motor sport and the federation for mobility organisations globally, today announces a new partnership with UNESCO as a signatory of their Fit for Life pledge. This new initiative, dedicated to tackling racism worldwide, will bolster the FIA’s leading efforts to tackle online abuse in sport through its United Against Online Abuse (UAOA) campaign. Officially launched in December 2024 at the 4th UNESCO Global...

WARSAW, March 28, 2025 - Before the 2026 World Cup Group G qualifying match between Poland and Lithuania at the National Stadium in Warsaw on 21 March, sports journalists from both countries, KDS (Klub Dziennikarzy Sportowych and LSŻF (Lietuvos Sporto Żurnalisty Federacija), showed off their skills in a friendly match on the training pitch of Legia Warsaw. The hosts proved to be better in the confrontation, defeating their rivals 3-2 (1-0). The goals were scored by: Mateusz Skwierawski (2) and Krzysztof...