Month: April 2025

30 Apr

FIFA and Global Citizen announce the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund

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30 April, 2025- At the Global Citizen NOW summit in New York City, FIFA and Global Citizen, the world's leading international advocacy organisation on a mission to end extreme poverty, announced the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an initiative that aims to raise USD $100 million to provide access to quality education and football for children around the world. The new fund, announced by FIFA President, Gianni Infantino and Global Citizen CEO, Hugh Evans, will provide targeted support to organisations across the globe dedicated to improving education for children. Consumer donations will be enabled and supported by Shift4 as Chief Commercial…

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30 Apr

ICC congratulates David Boon on a successful career as Match Referee

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has congratulated David Boon for a fine career as match referee, during which he officiated in close to 400 international matches after joining the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees in 2011. The 64-year-old Tasmanian's last match was the second Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in Chattogram and he now joins Cricket Australia as a Board Director. ICC Chair, Mr. Jay Shah, said: "On behalf of the International Cricket Council, I extend my gratitude to David Boon for his outstanding service as an ICC match referee. Over the years, he has combined his unparalleled experience…

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30 Apr

FIFA launches inaugural World Football Week and invites football community to join festivities

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FIFA has launched World Football Week from 21-25 May 2025, an inaugural week of festivities to celebrate football's unique ability to connect people across places, cultures and languages. Under the theme 'Together, We Are Stronger,' individuals, teams, and organisations around the world are invited to play, watch, and celebrate football, highlighting the strength which exists in unity. On 23 May 2024, FIFA President Gianni Infantino proposed to extend the existing UN World Football Day (25 May) celebrations for five days annually, in the form of World Football Week. Beginning on 21 May, the day on which FIFA was founded in…

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29 Apr

Rugby fans have named their 2025 Guinness Women’s Six Nations ‘Team of the Championship’

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28th April, 2025: London, UK-The Guinness Women's Six Nations is the biggest annual event in women's rugby, and for this year's edition of the Championship the players and teams once again took centre stage, inspiring and entertaining fans with elite sporting drama. Following five captivating rounds, fans were tasked with voting for the top player per position to decide the starting XV of the 2025 Guinness Women's Six Nations 'Team of the Championship'. Over 12,639 rugby fans answered the call and cast their votes to name this year's Team of The Championship; a 406% uplift on the number of fans…

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29 Apr

Manchester City Advance to FA Cup Final for Third Consecutive Year

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Manchester City have booked their place in the FA Cup final for the third year in a row after securing a commanding 2–0 victory over Nottingham Forest in the semi-finals at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. Pep Guardiola’s men got off to a dream start just two minutes into the game when 20-year-old Rico Lewis found the back of the net. The young midfielder latched onto a precise pass from Mateo Kovačić at the edge of the box and calmly slotted the ball past the Forest goalkeeper. Nottingham Forest, under the guidance of Nuno Espírito Santo, nearly equalized early in the…

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29 Apr

नेपाललाई डजबल खेलमा कास्य

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काठमाडौं। भारतको कर्नाटकमा सम्पन्न त्रिकोणीय डजबल प्रतियोगितामा नेपाली टोलीले पहिलो अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सहभागितामा शानदार प्रदर्शन गर्दै कास्य पदक प्राप्त गरेको छ।   अप्रिल २५ देखि २७ सम्म भारतको कर्नाटकमा आयोजना भएको उक्त प्रतियोगितामा नेपाल, भारत र मलेसियाका टोलीहरूबीच प्रतिस्पर्धा भएको थियो। नेपालले भारतविरुद्ध उत्कृष्ट खेल कौशल प्रस्तुत गर्दै ३–१ को हार व्यहोर्नु परे पनि एउटा सेट आफ्नो पक्षमा ल्याउन सफल भएको थियो। त्यसैगरी, मलेसियन राइनोस सँगको खेलमा पनि नेपाली टोलीले साहसिक र मनोबलपूर्ण प्रदर्शन गरे तापनि ५–० ले पराजित हुन पुगेका थिए। छोटो तयारी समय र पहिलो अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अनुभव हुँदाहुँदै नेपाली खेलाडीहरूले देखाएको जुझारुपन, समर्पण र खेलकौशलले सम्पूर्ण प्रतियोगितामा सबैको ध्यान…

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22 Apr

नेपाली डजबल टोली भारतका लागि प्रस्थान

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काठमाडौँ,– भारतको कर्नाटकमा हुने त्रि-राष्ट्रिय अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय डजबल च्याम्पियनशिप २०२५ मा सहभागी हुन प्रस्थान गर्न लागेका नेपाली राष्ट्रिय पुरुष डजबल टिमलाई बुढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिकाले मंगलबार एक विशेष कार्यक्रमका बीच भव्य रूपमा विदाई गरेको छ। उक्त विदाई तथा शुभकामना कार्यक्रममा प्रमुख अतिथिको रूपमा‌ बुढानिलकण्ठ नगर प्रमुख मिठाराम अधिकारी सहभागी थिए भने विशेष अतिथिमा राष्ट्रिय खेलकुद परिषद् की बोर्ड सदस्य नन्दा बस्याल, नगर प्रवक्ता तथा वडा नं. १० का वडाध्यक्ष नवराज भट्टराई, वडा नं. ११ का वडाध्यक्ष राजु अधिकारी, वडा नं. १२ का वडाध्यक्ष शम्भु प्रसाद भट्टराई, वडा नं. ९ की वडाध्यक्ष सुमित्रा त्रीपाठी पाण्डे, वडा नं. ८ का वडाध्यक्ष तथा बु.न.पा खेलकुद संयोजक…

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20 Apr

Fatima Sana captains ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Qualifier Team of the Tournament

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20 April 2025- Four players from Pakistan's unbeaten side have been named in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 Qualifier Team of the Tournament. Muneeba Ali, Fatima Sana, Nashra Sandhu and Sadia Iqbal are each selected, with Fatima named as captain. They are joined by three players from the West Indies and two apiece from Bangladesh and Scotland in the line-up selected by a panel consisting of event commentators Andrew Leonard, Marina Iqbal, Kainat Imtiaz and Joel Manning. Muneeba, who scored 223 runs including half-centuries against Scotland and Bangladesh, is picked as one of the openers alongside Hayley Matthews,…

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20 Apr

तेक्वान्दोका अदिशले अस्ट्रेलिया र जापानमा खेल्ने

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काठमाडौं– नेपाली तेक्वान्दो खेलाडी अदिश खड्का जापान र अस्ट्रेलियामा हुने अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय ओपन तेक्वान्दो च्याम्पियनसिपहरूमा प्रतिस्पर्धा गर्ने भएका छन्। अदिशले यसै अप्रिलमा जापानको ओसाकामा हुने जापान वाटा ओपन र आगामी मे महिनामा अस्ट्रेलियाको गोल्ड कोस्टमा हुने गोल्ड कोस्ट ओपन तेक्वान्दो च्याम्पियनसिप मा सहभागिता जनाउने छन्। उनी दुवै प्रतियोगितामा पुरुष यू–१७ उमेर समूहको व्यक्तिगत पुम्से विधामा प्रतिस्पर्धा गर्नेछन्। जापान वाटा ओपन अप्रिल २५ देखि २७ तारिखसम्म आयोजना हुँदैछ। यस प्रतियोगितामा अदिशसँगै नेपालका अन्य खेलाडीहरूको पनि सहभागिता रहनेछ। त्यसपछि अदिश जापानबाटै मे ३ र ४ गते हुने गोल्ड कोस्ट ओपन मा सहभागी हुन अस्ट्रेलिया प्रस्थान गर्नेछन्। तेस्रो डान प्राप्त खेलाडी अदिश खड्काले दुबै…

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20 Apr

एसियन ई–स्पोर्ट्स च्याम्पियनसिप वैशाखको अन्तिम साता हुने

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काठमाडौं –  ई–स्पोर्ट्स संघ नेपालको आयोजनामा एसियन ई–स्पोर्ट्स च्याम्पियनसिप हुने भएको छ। संघले आइतबार काठमाडौंमा पत्रकार सम्मेलन गरी प्रतियोगिता सम्बन्धी औपचारिक जानकारी दिएको हो। संघका अध्यक्ष अन्जन धमलाले सरकारको नीति तथा कार्यक्रम र बजेटमा समावेश गरिएको योजनाअनुसार प्रतियोगिता वैशाखको अन्तिम साता सञ्चालन गर्न लागिएको जानकारी दिए। ‘ई–स्पोर्ट्स अन्तर्गत पब्जी मोबाइल खेल समावेश गरेर एसियाली स्तरको प्रतिस्पर्धा आयोजना गर्न लागिएको हो,’ अध्यक्ष धमलाले भने, ‘भर्चुअल एरिनामा एसियाका उत्कृष्ट गेमरलाई एकत्रित गर्ने लक्ष्यसहित प्रतियोगिता आयोजना गर्न लागिएको हो।’ संघका अनुसार प्रतियोगिता वैशाख २६, २७ र २८ गते अनलाइनमार्फत सञ्चालन हुनेछ। वरिष्ठ उपाध्यक्ष हिमबिक्रम केसीका अनुसार नेपालसहित एसियाका १३ देशले प्रतियोगितामा सहभागिता जनाउने…

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