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🇪🇸 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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Manchester City is owned by Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, who is considered the architect of the country's foreign policy and has close ties to the Sudanese RSF paramilitary forces.

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Several people demonstrated yesterday outside the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, against the involvement of City's owners in financing the genocide in #Sudan.

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Il calcio secondo Pasolini: Dialogo con Valerio Curcio | Episodio 77

Pier Paolo Pasolini was a writer, poet, filmmaker, journalist, communist activist, homosexual, and football enthusiast. He was killed in unclear circumstances on November 2, 1975, in Rome, at the age of 53.

You can learn more here (in Italian): open.spotify.com/episode/6dvR...

"Football is the last sacred performance of our time. [...] It is the spectacle that has replaced the theater, because the theater is a relationship between a flesh-and-blood audience and flesh-and-blood characters who perform on stage."

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"I suffered then for this beloved team, I suffer excruciatingly even now, always."

"Football fandom is a youthful disease that lasts a lifetime."

"Q: 'Without cinema, without writing, what would you have liked to become?'
P: 'A good footballer.'"

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"I'm a Bologna fan. Not so much because I was born in Bologna, but because I returned to Bologna (after long epic, or epic-lyrical, sojourns in the Po Valley) at 14 and started playing football."

Pier Paolo #Pasolini, November 2, 1975 - November 2, 2025

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Il calcio italiano è in guerra coi suoi tifosi “Qui si tratta di capire se vogliamo l’uovo oggi o la gallina domani. Chi sviluppa una property sportiva ha l’obbligo di pensare a 5-10 anni e dobbiamo fare né più né meno qu…

🇮🇹 The Milan-Como case in Australia has reiterated an increasingly evident trend in Italian football: #SerieA cares less and less about its fans.

Read the news article (in Italian): pallonateinfaccia.com/2025/11/02/c...

Source: @schwatzgelb.de.

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Under the banners there was also a patch with the current time, which was updated minute by minute, until kick-off of the match.

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"We decide when you play: Saturday at 3:30 PM."

Yesterday, Borussia Dortmund fans returned to protesting the #Bundesliga, throwing tennis balls onto the pitch: for the match against Augsburg, they were forced to travel about 600 km on Friday night.

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La Cina ci riprova con il calcio - Il Post Questa volta in modo diverso, partendo dal basso e senza spendere milioni per giocatori stranieri: non sarà semplice

🇨🇳 Football in #China is (slowly) growing again as a phenomenon: an in-depth analysis by Pallonate in Faccia on @ilpost.it (in Italian).

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« Une insulte à la dignité humaine » : en pleine crise sociale en Angola, des ONG demandent à Lionel Messi et l'Argentine de ne pas jouer à Luanda Quatre ONG angolaises ont demandé mardi à Lionel Messi et la sélection argentine de ne pas venir jouer à Luanda, capitale de l'Angola, en novembre après la mort de 30 personnes dans des manifestations...

In August, four Angolan NGOs called on Argentina not to play: "Investing millions of dollars in a sporting event when thousands of people are starving, hospitals are collapsing, and repression is increasing is an insult to human dignity."

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Angola's deadly protests: 'The hungry can't stay silent' As the 50th independence anniversary approaches the country grapples with poverty and inequality.

Added to this is the recent protests: at the end of June, taxi drivers went on strike over the government's decision to increase the fuel price. The demonstrations degenerated into clashes, and police killed at least 20 people.

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In Angola, per capita GDP in 2024 was just €2,000, and an estimated 52.9% of the population lives below the poverty line. Bringing Messi and his teammates to Luanda, however, could be a way to distract the population from these problems.

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🇦🇷 On November 14, #Messi 's Argentina will play a friendly match in Angola to celebrate the African country's 50th anniversary of independence. The Angolan government will pay 12 million euros to the Argentine Football Federation, despite the African country's dire economic situation.

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🇵🇸 British singer-songwriter Roger Waters has called on Aston Villa players to refuse to play against Maccabi Tel Aviv in protest against the genocide in #Palestine.

The two teams will face each other on November 6 in the Europa League.

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⚽️ On May 29, 1991, in Bari, Red Star Belgrade won the European Cup: it was the high point in the history of Yugoslav football. But just a month later, the country descended into war.

Listen to the new episode of the #podcast (in Italian): open.spotify.com/episode/1FQa...

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AC Milan, Arsenal, Olympique Lyon, Real Madrid, and Benfica are clubs sponsored by Emirates, the state-owned airline of the United Arab Emirates, whose government is funding the massacres in #Sudan.

After the end of the Yugoslav wars in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina was established as a federal republic with a single multi-ethnic league, in which Zrinjski entered.

Zrinjski was dissolved in 1945, after the victory of Tito's communist partisans, only to be recreated by Croatian nationalists in 1992, after the conquest of Mostar and the creation of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

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Zrinjski was founded in the early 1900s by Croats from Mostar, Bosnia. During World War II, the club joined the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state controlled by Nazi Germany, with which Croatian nationalists, the Ustaše, collaborated.

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"Samsh the Ustaše. Long live the partisans."

This banner was displayed on Thursday, October 23, by Mainz fans during their Conference League match against Zrinjski Mostar, a Bosnian club historically linked to Croatian nationalism.

#antifascism

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The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords

The Manchester City owner had already been directly accused of complicity in genocide last June, in an article in the @nytimes.com written by @tariqpanja.bsky.social and @declanwalsh.bsky.social.

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Sudan accuses UAE of 'complicity in genocide' at ICJ Sudan's government alleges that the UAE is arming its civil war opponents, which it denies.

As the Emirati foreign policy chief, Mansour is accused of supplying weapons and drones to Hamdan, using hospitals built in Sudan by the UAE as cover.

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In February 2023, Mansour (center) hosted in Abu Dhabi General Mohamed Hamdan (left), head of the Rapid Support Forces who in recent days bloodily conquered Al Fasher.

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Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan is the owner of Manchester City, but he is also vice president of the United Arab Emirates. In this second role, he is held responsible for the Emirati support for the genocide in #Sudan.

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