🇵🇸 Catalunya coach Gerard López and #Palestine coach Ihab Abu Jazar met yesterday to exchange jerseys at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona. On the ground, many white shirts: a tribute to the more than 400 Palestinian football figures killed by Israel. 👇

🇮🇹 Former Italian right-wing MP Italo Bocchino attributes the crisis in the Italian football team to "the left's destruction of patriotism." This nationalist rhetoric about sport has always led to disastrous outcomes.

"The whole world has left the Palestinians alone. I imagine the people over there waiting for one of us to lift a finger, to do something, and no one has done anything at all." Pep Guardiola, today on @rac1oficial.bsky.social. 👇

Ireland won in Hungary, and Kneecap send a greeting to Viktor Orbán.

"Mladić, a European hero: dropping Muslims to zero" This banner was displayed by Romanian fans before Saturday's away match in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ratko Mladić is a Serbian criminal from the Yugoslav wars. 👇

🇸🇩 Yesterday, before the match between the Basque Country and #Palestine, in front of the Bilbao's Arriaga Theater, a commemoration was also held for the numerous Palestinian athletes killed by Israel in the last two years.

🇸🇩 Last night in Bilbao, a historic friendly match was played between the Basque Country and #Palestine teams, in front of 53,000 spectators at the San Mamés stadium. 👇

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 In 1979, Laurie Cunningham moved from WBA to Real Madrid, becoming the most expensive English footballer ever and establishing himself as a pioneer of African-British football. Read the full story (in Italian). pallonateinfaccia.com/2025/11/16/l...

A new international football league will start in Oceania next January, funded primarily by #SaudiArabia. New release of THE BEAUTIFUL SHAME, Pallonate in Faccia's English-language newsletter on football, politics, and human rights in Saudi Arabia: open.substack.com/pub/pallonat...

Next Tuesday, the Barcelona Olympic Stadium will host the Catalonia-Palestine friendly: it is the stadium that in 1936 was supposed to host the People's Olympics, an event conceived by anti-fascists to oppose the Olympic Games in Berlin. Via @actxpalestine.bsky.social 👇

Ultras Italia defended the Sebastiani Rieti fans who murdered the Pistoia Basket bus driver on October 19th. It happened last night in Chisinau, during Moldova-Italy. Both groups have far-right ties. "19-10-25 A tragic fatality... but pointing fingers will never be our mentality!" 👇

🇵🇸 A couple of days ago, Éric Cantona received this t-shirt featuring a drawing of his famous kick (aimed at a racist fan in 1995), this time aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with the slogan "Free #Palestine". 👇

Football directly enters the wars in #Yugoslavia, with fans enlisting in various paramilitary groups. The most well-known are the Tigers led by Arkan, a former leader of Red Star's Delije. 🎧Listen to the new podcast episode (in Italian): open.spotify.com/episode/0q9n... 👇

🇵🇸 Manchester City's Catalan manager Pep Guardiola has invited fans to attend the historic friendly between Catalonia and #Palestine, which will take place at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday 18 November. 👇

Next Saturday and Tuesday, #Palestine will play two historic friendlies in Europe: in Bilbao against the Basque Country and in Barcelona against Catalonia.

Anwar El Ghazi also won his appeal yesterday against Mainz for the unfair dismissal he suffered in November 2023: the German club had terminated his contract after the player had taken a stand on social media in favor of #Palestine. 👇

🇬🇧 Forest Green Rovers (English 5th tier) have announced that they will sell #GazaCola at their stadium, The New Lawn in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. 👇

Upcoming live events with Pallonate in Faccia this weekend in Italy: 📌Saturday, November 15 - 9:00 PM in Fano (PU) 📌Sunday, November 16 - 5:00 PM in Modena

🇪🇸 Last Wednesday, dozens of workers on the Camp Nou construction sites in #Barcelona protested against the exploitative conditions suffered by several migrant workers. 👇

🇮🇹 @amnesty.org denounces human rights violations committed by Italian police on October 14 in Udine, during the #ShowIsraelTheRedCard demonstration against the Italy-Israel match. 👇

"Carlos Lives" Last Sunday, Rayo Vallecano fans remembered Carlos Palomino, a 16-year-old anti-fascist activist murdered on November 11, 2007, by a neo-Nazi in the Madrid subway. 👇

"Abolish ICE" "Immigrants Welcome" San Diego SC fans (with the groups The Locals and Frontera SD) along with the Portland Timbers Army, opponents on the pitch yesterday in MLS but united by the common cause of anti-racism.

🇮🇪 The Football Association of #Ireland (FAI) has decided to back the request for Israel's suspension from international competitions due to the genocide in Palestine. 👇

"It's a very special match for symbolic reasons: playing against #Palestine, with everyone's support for the Palestinian people." Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta commented on his debut for the Basque national team in the friendly on November 15th against Palestina.

🇬🇧 Yesterday, #Celtic fans booed a minute's silence for Remembrance Day, which remembers the British fallen in all wars, including the one in Northern Ireland. 👇

"Koalas, kangaroos, poisonous snakes: no to #SerieA in Australia, football belongs to the fans." The banner held by Parma fans during yesterday's match against AC Milan, protesting the possible hosting of the AC Milan-Como match in Perth. 👇

There's been a lot of talk over the past week about the two Sky Sport interns who celebrated an Inter goal. The truth, however, is that all Italian sports journalists are also fans. Read the new article (in Italian)👇 pallonateinfaccia.com/2025/11/09/n...

"From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free" The magnificent choreography performed by Samsunspor fans during Thursday's Conference League match against Hamrun Spartans. 👇

🇪🇸 In last night's Conference League match against Lech Poznań, Rayo Vallecano's Bukaneros paid a great tribute to the working class, reclaiming their popular and left-wing roots. 👇

NEOM Stadium is being touted as a futuristic project, but the Saudi government is significantly downplaying it. Read THE BEAUTIFUL SHAME, Pallonate in Faccia's English-language newsletter on football, politics, and human rights in #SaudiArabia. 📲 pallonateinfaccia.substack.com/p/neom-stadi...

"Maccabi not welcome" "421 Palestinian football players killed" This was how Maccabi Tel Aviv was welcomed last night in Birmingham for the Europa League match against Aston Villa. The protest against the Israeli club took place immediately outside the stadium.

🇸🇩 The war in #Sudan and Manchester City: a problem the football world doesn't want to see. Pallonate in Faccia on L'UltimoUomo (in Italian). www.ultimouomo.com/manchester-c...

"Everyone is afraid. Everyone is a coward. All eyes on #Sudan." The chant by fans of Egyptian club Al Ahly during last Sunday's match against Al-Masry. 👇

" #Trump is one of the people who can change or help change the world," said Cristiano Ronaldo in his recent interview with British journalist Piers Morgan. 👇

FIFA has invented a World Peace Prize, which will be awarded on December 5th in Washington, during the draw for next summer's World Cup. There's much speculation that the winner will be Donald Trump... inside.fifa.com/organisation...

Osama #Almasri, the former head of the Libyan judicial police accused of torture and murder, was arrested today in Libya. He had already been arrested in Italy last January, where he had come to watch a Serie A match, but was later released by the Italian government.

🇺🇸 Zorhan #Mamdani is the new mayor of New York: a 34-year-old of Indian and Ugandan descent, raised in London, socialist and Muslim. And a huge football/soccer fan, in case you didn't know. 👇

Cristiano Ronaldo is promoting the new book "Woke is Dead" by Piers Morgan, a controversial right-wing British journalist. Morgan and Ronaldo have been friends for a long time, and the footballer has granted him several exclusive interviews.

Yesterday at the University of Genoa to talk about football and politics. Thank to @mauroberruto.bsky.social for the invitation!

" #Palestine will win! Stop the repression of solidarity!" With this message, displayed last Saturday against Atlético Sanluqueño (Spanish 3rd division), the Eskapulats of Club Esportiu Europa once again took a stand in support of Palestine.

"Long live the pensioners!" Last Thursday, the players of Deportivo Español (Argentine's 4th division) showed their solidarity with the pensioners who have been protesting for months against the Milei government's cuts in #Argentina. 👇

"Milan-Como? Play it in Tel Aviv!" The Palermo Calcio Popolare banner, on the Milan-Como case in Perth and the well-known ties between Italy and Israel.

Beşiktaş fans' choreography for #Palestine in yesterday's match against Fenerbahçe. 👇

🇪🇸 Today, Spanish newspaper El Mundo described Real Madrid player Athenea Del Castillo as a "free thinker who breaks the national team's woke hegemony." Del Castillo is often discussed for her alleged far-right sympathies. 👇

Several people demonstrated yesterday outside the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, against the involvement of City's owners in financing the genocide in #Sudan. 👇

"I'm a Bologna fan. Not so much because I was born in Bologna, but because I returned to Bologna (after long epic, or epic-lyrical, sojourns in the Po Valley) at 14 and started playing football." Pier Paolo #Pasolini, November 2, 1975 - November 2, 2025 👇

🇮🇹 The Milan-Como case in Australia has reiterated an increasingly evident trend in Italian football: #SerieA cares less and less about its fans. Read the news article (in Italian): pallonateinfaccia.com/2025/11/02/c...

"We decide when you play: Saturday at 3:30 PM." Yesterday, Borussia Dortmund fans returned to protesting the #Bundesliga, throwing tennis balls onto the pitch: for the match against Augsburg, they were forced to travel about 600 km on Friday night. 👇

🇨🇳 Football in #China is (slowly) growing again as a phenomenon: an in-depth analysis by Pallonate in Faccia on @ilpost.it (in Italian). www.ilpost.it/2025/10/31/c...

🇦🇷 On November 14, #Messi 's Argentina will play a friendly match in Angola to celebrate the African country's 50th anniversary of independence. The Angolan government will pay 12 million euros to the Argentine Football Federation, despite the African country's dire economic situation. 👇