Beyond the world of sports, the visibility of Ukraine’s footballers is crucial in raising awareness of the country’s struggles. Ukrainian footballers have...
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FIFA and UEFA can take a firmer stance on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. Suspending Russia from international competitions in 2022 was the correct decision, but more...
Ukraine’s under-21s reached the semi-finals of the European Championships, qualifying, in the process, for next year’s Olympic Games. As the Russian invasion...
The birthplace of Ukrainian football, Lviv may soon have a team back in the country’s top division. In football, certain narratives seize the collective...
Ukrainian Premier League football team FC Mariupol are back, in the most unlikely of places. In a show of solidarity with war-torn Ukraine, a Ukrainian community in...
Kvicha Kvaratskhelia scored for Napoli on his Italian league debut last August, and went into orbit. A coruscating performance in a Champions League match against...
Footballers may currently be Ukraine’s top export to the UK, but a ruling last month by the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the country’s clubs will...
Ukraine’s football clubs are doing all they can to be more Ukrainian. Except one. Russia’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022 brought an...
From asterisks and explanatory notes to lower case letters on TV scoreboards, Kosovo’s struggle to simply be Kosovo continues. The launch last week of the European...
A new documentary chronicles both the breakup of Yugoslavia and the emergence of independent Croatia through the prism of a gifted generation of footballers. FIFA...
Tirana’s National Arena is the venue for the final of the UEFA European Conference League, the first time that the country has hosted such a high profile sporting...
Football has made a good start in its efforts to isolate Russia, but there are plenty of clubs that have yet to end their ties with the country. On February 27, FIFA and...
