Ballon d’Or at the presidential palace
On this day, 11th October, in 2005, football star George Weah ran for the office of president of Liberia.
October in Football
As the UEFA 2020 European Championships got pushed ahead one year, we provide you with a 365-day #onthisday series of posts to help all fans out there to go back in time, think, and reflect.
Alice Milliat: Suffragette of Sport
Organiser for gender equality through sports.
The Incredible Life of a French Footballer
Today, 29 September, is the day on which French female football pioneer Carmen Pomiès was born in 1900 and passed away in 1982.
Rab Howell: Romani in England
Pioneer as the first Roma footballer in England’s national team.
Brunilde Amodeo: Woman against Fascism
Captain of a pioneering Italian football team in 1933.
Jack Leslie: Nearly the First
Selected to play for England in 1925, but discriminated away.
Molly Seaton: Forgotten Heroine of Belfast
Playing with strength, forgotten and rediscovered as a pioneer.
Lily Parr: Legend of the Women’s Game
From female football star of the 1920’s to a memory icon.
Gabriel Hanot: The visionary journalist
Player who set out a path for the development of football.
