US Soccer in Scandinavia
Today in 1916, the US Soccer team played their first international football match. In the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm they beat their Swedish hosts 3 – 2.
World War 1 in one life
A story of a professional footballer who died at the battle of the Somme in 1916.
Playing the game for peace
On this day, 21 September, we look at how playing a game of football can contribute to peace by looking at the work of the NGO Childrens Football Alliance.
Armand Swartenbroeks: Champion of fair play
Playing football to help and cure other people.
Lily Parr: Legend of the Women’s Game
From female football star of the 1920’s to a memory icon.
Walter Tull, Black footballer and Soldier
Walter Tull was a pioneering Black footballer and a soldier.
Florrie Redford: The Preston Munitionette
Florrie Redford was a leading pioneer of women’s football, and a star centre-forward for Dick, Kerr Ladies in the 1920s playing in England, France and the United States. Her story is about pioneering in Women’s Football.
