When David Weiner’s seven-year-old son started reading football books, the author was delighted to share his lifelong passion for the game with the next generation. Until he realised that the only books on offer were about international stars. Great, he thought, but where are the books about our incredibly talented Australian players? After a bit…
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Players from TuS Makkabi, a youth under-17 soccer team in Berlin, were reportedly chased and assaulted on Thursday after playing against DJK Schwarz-Weiß Neukölln, according to international media reports. The players were reportedly chased by a crowd wielding sticks and knives, according to German news site Tagesspiegel daily. Players from the opposing team reportedly…
Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman on Friday vowed to pull his Pershing Square firm from the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam after sick soccer thugs ran amok to target Israeli fans in a string on anti-Semitic attacks in the Netherlands. Jew-hating agitators violently assaulted supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Dutch city before and…
