football
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Uefa publishes its first statement saying football is "not Fifa's to sell", and accuses Fifa of 'crossing a line'.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Carlos Cordeiro - Infantino's senior adviser on global strategy and governance - resigned over the matter, saying the proposal was "a bad deal for football" and would "mortgage football's future".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
He said he now intends to "bring all interested parties back together" in the "spirit of shared interest" in football.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We clearly misjudged how this deal would be viewed by the wider football community and how it might impact them in the future,” a spokesman for the bank said then.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Then Mr. Brisbane said, “Just think, last year after Thanksgiving dinner, Jason and I threw the football around the backyard. Now I’m stuck here and Jason is in Tokyo.”
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Long before the World Cup kicked off, U.S. manager Mauricio Pochettino wasn’t shy about setting extraordinarily high expectations for a country that believes footballs are oblong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The people waiting outside our ports of entry are not footballs stopped at the 1-yard line, letters suspended in a mail carrier’s hand, or dinner guests lingering on a porch.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
Stress balls in the shape of footballs, courtesy of the Only Agency.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
When we arrived, Mary Lou's brothers were running around like crazed animals, jumping over the furniture and tossing footballs.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
