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  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    OutlookLeila Abboud
    France breathes a sigh of relief as Kylian Mbappé chooses to stay

    President Macron was among those who persuaded the footballer to spurn Real Madrid

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    Sport
    Tennis divided as Wimbledon bans stars from Russia and Belarus

    ATP and WTA criticise All England Club for blocking players from Grand Slam tournament over Ukraine

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Fifa adds Crypto.com as football World Cup sponsor

    Deal underscores growing ties between sport and digital assets

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Football
    Russia lodges appeal over Uefa and Fifa bans

    Football federation seeks to overturn suspensions through Court of Arbitration for Sport

  • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
    InterviewEstonia
    Estonia’s president warns of Russian hybrid warfare

    Alar Karis says Baltics should be ready for cyber attacks and migrant flows being used against them

  • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
    Qatar
    Qatar holds elections in bid to burnish image before World Cup

    First polls for consultative Shura Council are part of reforms that aim to modernise state

  • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
    Matthew Garrahan
    Life stuck in the endless loop of English football fandom

    Sunday’s loss to Italy brought back a familiar despair laced with memories of generations of family support

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Football, racism and the England team

    While the government equivocates, it has been left to Gareth Southgate to give a clear lead on racism

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
    Euro 2020: England expects — the long road back to a Wembley final

    The team’s fortunes have long reflected the national mood. Will their embrace of a continental style end in victory?

  • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
    FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
    Mood of a fractious nation pivots on England’s Euro 2020 progress

    Broader social effects will be felt whether footballers win or lose semi-final against Denmark

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
    England need to play without fear to end long wait for success

    Southgate’s players are first in decades to have a positive experience of playing on international stage

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    Can Gareth Southgate deliver both victory and progressive patriotism?

    The England football manager is in a powerful political position, and he knows it

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
    England’s Sterling success bridges nation divided by culture war

    Black footballer’s goals have taken England to Euro 2020 quarter final and elevated players’ campaign against racism

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
    Wales celebrates ‘band of brothers’ taking on football’s big boys

    As team prepares to face Denmark on Saturday nation unites behind ‘massive underdogs’

  • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
    Simon Kuper
    Karim Benzema: France’s prodigal striker is a political football for far-right fans

    Real Madrid star proves a tailor-made target for extremists in evolving culture war

  • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
    FT CollectionsEuro 2020 football championship
    England’s blend of youth and experience raises national hopes

    But Gareth Southgate’s Euros squad will have to beat some of the best national teams in the world if they are to succeed

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Zvonimir Boban: ‘I always felt I was created to play football’

    Ex-Croatian midfielder on the kick that prefigured Yugoslavia’s break-up, taking on the Super League — and why England shouldn’t play three at the back

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    India shows the way for English cricket

    The sport’s birthplace has much to learn from the approach of its former colony

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    UK Budget
    Cricket set to benefit from extra £300m for sport

    Chancellor also confirms nearly £3m to fund UK and Ireland bid for 2030 men’s football World Cup

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Jonathan Derbyshire
    Gérard Houllier, football manager, 1947-2020

    French coach who took Liverpool FC to a historic treble win in 2001

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Henry Mance
    Rugby union doesn’t know what has hit it

    Other sports are changing because of harm to players

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    FT Magazine
    Meet Frenkie de Jong, the footballer playing like no one else

    One of the world’s most talented young players tells Simon Kuper about his first season in Spain and what makes Messi special

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2020
    Switzerland
    Swiss prosecutors charge PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi

    President of Paris St Germain football club and former Fifa official face charges 

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Doping in sport
    Russia appeals against four-year Olympic sporting ban

    Exclusion imposed after drugs body uncovers huge state-sponsored doping programme

  • Monday, 9 December, 2019
    Doping in sport
    Russia banned from Olympics and football World Cup 

    Anti-doping agency excludes country from big sporting events for four years

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