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Bringing cultures together with the world game

Young people from a number of Western Australia's cultural and linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities will converge on Langley Park for the Football West Harmony Week Football Festival exhibition tomorrow (March 17). The teams will represent 10 local communities including the Somalian, Chinese, Turkish, Nigerian, Tanzanian, Karen, Mauritian, Bangladeshi, Saudi Arabian and

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Australia bars North Korea’s U-19 football team from entering country citing ‘illegal nuclear programmes’

The Australian federal government has blocked the Under-19 men's team of North Korea from entering the country. "Hosting the team would be contrary to the Government's strong opposition to North Korea’s illegal nuclear and missile development programmes", Australian foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop told the SBS news yesterday. The Korean team

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WA on show to millions at Chelsea Football Club home ground

Perth and Western Australia are being advertised at Chelsea Football Club home ground matches in London this season. The LED signage display is part of the deal brokered by Tourism WA, in partnership with Perth Stadium operators VenuesLive, to bring the reigning Premier League champions to Perth Stadium next year to

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Roy Hodgson pens two-year contract with Crystal Palace; becomes seventh permanent manager of Palace in six years

On Tuesday, former manager of England's football team Roy Hodgson signed a two-year contract with London-based football club Crystal Palace, the club announced via their official website. 70-year-old Hodgson has about forty years as a football manager, and has managed fifteen clubs, and four countries' national teams. He has managed four

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