Craig Foster

The Europa League final IS HERE 😤🏆 Aston Villa are chasing their first European trophy in 44 years. Freiburg have never won a major trophy in their 122-year history. From 4.30am AEST Thursday morning on Stan Sport. ↳ UEFA Europa League. Live & Exclusive on Stan Sport. #StanSportAU #UEL

🥹🇧🇷 Magnifiques scènes au Brésil où un groupe d'enfants a INTERROMPU leur match de futsal juste pour écouter l'annonce de la liste du Brésil. Quand Ancelotti a donné le nom de Neymar, ils ont laissé éclaté leur immense joie 🤩 Le football. ❤️

There is much to be concerned about in the world. Outside, and inside football. But from time to time, we are reminded that there remains a central purity to the game that reaches hundreds of millions of children all round the world. A love, a passion, a hope, an inspiration, a dream. Everyone experiences football differently. But the game is so, so important to the kids. And they’re the most important ones.

"We've never seen as many hungry people in the world in history." Carl Skau, World Food Programme Deputy executive director, tells ＠SkyYaldaHakim more than 300 million people live in hunger - 70 to 80 per cent of which is driven by conflict. 🌍 trib.al/zff6Z7W

Disappointing but not suprising results from Football Australia, yesterday. While a review is needed into the failure to capitalise on the 2023 Women’s World Cup particularly, which should have set the entire game up for the next several decades, it is the failure of the governing body and professional game to work together that has been most damaging, in my view. Since separation, there has been a fundamental lack of alignment that saw the two sides of the game too often in direct competition. Thankfully, that appears to be changing, finally. The game should also conduct a thorough analysis of its governance structure, and associated inability to capitalise fully on its size and scale. There are final reforms required that have long been avoided so that football can finally act as one voice, with one path, one ambition and one strategy, delivered locally. Without this, the same pattern repeats. The structure of the game must wholly facilitate its ambitions, not act as an impediment, or a disincentive. Whether the game has the courage to take these necessary steps, however, is the question. With the correct acumen and ambition, it should not need failure to spur change again, such as early this century, but to keep aggressively evolving, collectively with a clear, shared plan. In future, this should be a given, right throughout the game. That’s the challenge for everyone involved in leadership positions in 2026.

The two sides to Pep Guardiola's legacy His greatness should be celebrated as arguably the greatest coach ever and definitely the most influential But he has worked as the key figure at a club being used as a "sportswashing project" by Abu Dhabi independent.co.uk/sport/football…

Neymar broke down into tears after getting selected for the World Cup ❤️ Look what it means to him 🥹 (via @neymarjr)

If you love football, then I think you will love this. On the eve of the Europa Cup final, Ezri Konsa speaking like you rarely hear a footballer speak. It's also the antidote to the poison of that rancid march at the weekend. theplayerstribune.com/ezri-konsa-pre…

Lifetime ban. Revocation of license. And criminal charges.

Congrats to the Gunners. 22 years. So close, so often. Finally. The summit. Well deserved.

New @hrw report documents how the Arakan Army committed war crimes killing hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State & burning down their village, the survivors are still denied justice & cannot return to their homes. Read more here 👇 hrw.org/news/2026/05/1…

Yes. Important message.

The CommBank #Joeys will be out to make history in their #AFCU17 Asian Cup™ Saudi Arabia 2026 Semi Final on Wednesday morning. 💪 Never before have they reached the tournament's decider. 😤 🆚 China 🇨🇳 ⏰ 4:30am AEST 🏟️ King Abdullah Sports City Hall Stadium 📺 Stream: youtube.com/watch?v=f1YzlB…

NEW: Two years after the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, killed and wounded hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and burned down their village, the survivors are still denied justice and cannot return to their homes. hrw.org/news/2026/05/1… 🧵⤵️

Families of Mexico’s disappeared staged a football game as a protest ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. They’re demanding accountability for the nearly 134,000 people who remain missing across the country – many either kidnapped or killed.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀. -- Art 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: buff.ly/f2Qg1tL Let us condemn discrimination, violence & racism. Say #NoToRacism and #NoToHate.

‘Mr. Dominguez..also serves as one of the eight vice presidents of FIFA. The complaint accuses him, along with another senior Conmebol official, of receiving more than $5 million from the money recovered by the soccer federation..’ nytimes.com/2026/05/18/wor…

Arsenal go FIVE POINTS clear at the top of the table with ONE game remaining 🔝 The title could be won if Manchester City fail to beat Bournemouth. ↳ Premier League. Live & On Demand with 4K on Football’s New Home, Stan Sport. Stream now. #StanSportAU #PremierLeague

Millions of dollars recovered in FIFA corruption scandal may be missing again... South American football president subject of ethics complaint. Great story by @tariqpanja nytimes.com/2026/05/18/wor…

President Trump sold between $5 million and $25 million each of Microsoft and Amazon stock in February and purchased millions of dollars’ worth of the companies’ stock in March, according to disclosures filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. wapo.st/4drlT67