Israel detains Palestine international women's football player - Al Jazeera - https://t.co/yE1a89PGbz
Israel is a terror state. Ban Israel from FIFA. Boycott Israel Football Association. #stopthegame
11 days before Iran’s World Cup opener:
• No visas yet approved for players or staff
• Forced to move their camp from USA to Mexico
• A friendly cancelled due to the relocation
This is how the world’s 21st-ranked team is being treated before football’s biggest tournament.
In 2023, not only did Robbie Keane ignore calls not to manage Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv due to the club's racist fans.
While thousands were being murdered, the team's players were shown a "motivational video" featuring Israeli soldiers firing rockets into besieged #Gaza
From a purely sporting/Celtic planning perspective, it doesn't matter why Robbie Keane is divisive. He is, and he'd be a bad choice. The new person coming in needs to get fans on board within the first few months, right or wrong that's the environment. It'll be hard enough.
While humanitarian organisations warned of children being starved to death, hospitals were flattened and entire bloodlines wiped from existence, Robbie Keane chose to work just dozens of miles away from the devastation, in the country responsible for it, writes Kelly Given ✍️
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FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia
As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now
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It is estimated there are between 3000 - 4000 managers in world football.
The Celtic board had six months to draw up a list of candidates from across the globe & whittle that down to a final shortlist.
The shortlist they managed:
- Robbie Keane
- Martin O’Neill
- Craig Bellamy