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 31, 2025 - World Boxing is set to open its first competition of the year today in Brazil following a landmark month in which it was provisionally recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and boxing was included on the sports programme for LA28 after many months of uncertainty.The World Boxing Cup will take place in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, from March 31 to April 5, with more than 130 boxers from 19 countries participating, according to World Boxing, which four days ago...

ACCRA, March 28, 2025 - Leicester City’s Ghanaian forward Jordan Pierre Ayew has finally, later than expected, become the substantive captain of the Ghana football team, the Black Stars.  Named captain ahead of Ghana’s double-header March fixtures against Chad and Madagascar in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Jordan becomes the third member of the Ayew family, after his father the great Abedi Pele Ayew and brother Andre Ayew, to lead Ghana. And this is such a remarkable story in the history of not just...

VIGEVANO, March 27, 2025 - I must admit that I’ve thought a lot about how to start this article, although I’m a journalist and writing comes easily to me, this time, when I have so many feelings and so many beautiful memories in my heart, it’s difficult.But anyway, here we go. It all started in early March 2025 when I arrived in Italy. On the first day back at the office, I told Gianni Merlo, the president of the International Sports Press Association, and my boss, that I wanted to register to run the...