Soccer

Missing local sports, Argentine soccer fans cheer goal by Argentine-Israeli player

Eial Strahman, who scored the goal, is Jewish with extensive connections to Israel.

By JTA Staff May 24, 2020 3:22 pm

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Chelsea soccer players Cesar Azpilicueta, right, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek standing against the club's mural commemorating Holocaust victims in London, UK on Jan. 15, 2020.. (Courtesy of Chelsea FC)

Chelsea soccer club unveils mural with Jewish soccer players murdered at Auschwitz

The artwork is part of the club’s Say No to Antisemitism campaign and marks the international day to commemorate the Holocaust.

January 17, 2020 10:01 am

BDS activists target Argentina-Uruguay soccer match scheduled for Tel Aviv

Protesters at a training facility in Barcelona called on star players Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez to pull out of the match.

November 10, 2019 11:43 am

Brazilian soccer legends beat Israeli greats in Haifa ‘peace match’

By Marcus M. Gilban October 30, 2019 6:07 am

More than a year after cancellation, Argentina’s national soccer team to play in Israel

By JTA Staff October 24, 2019 11:04 am

German soccer team criticizes its fans after anti-Semitic and racist chants

By Marcy Oster August 25, 2019 2:33 pm

Israeli soccer fans banned from center of French city over anti-Semitism fears

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 25, 2019 11:06 am

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Argentine soccer player to be deported after decade in Israel

By JTA Staff June 18, 2019 8:43 am

Jozef Klotz, left, with a team mate in Krakow int he 1920s. (Courtesy of From the Depths)

Poland’s soccer team honors Holocaust victim who scored its 1st international goal

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 7, 2019 8:49 am

US women’s soccer team player puts Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name on her jersey

By Marcy Oster March 3, 2019 2:42 pm

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