Category Archives: Sport

Kurds monitor upcoming FIFA decision on Kosovo

Kurdish team

By James M. Dorsey: The Kosovo Football Federation (KFF) and soccer-crazy Kosovars are not the only ones in anxious anticipation of this coming Friday’s executive committee meeting of world soccer body FIFA that is expected to decide the terms on which Kosovo will be allowed to play international friendlies. So will the Kurdistan Football Association…

Kurdish love for Barça

Solin Hacador

By Solin Hacador: Football is a passionate game. You can see this by the cheering fans on any given Sunday or Thursday night and so on. When there is an important football match on – such as Barça (Barcelona Football Team), Chelsea, Real Madrid, Milan etc. – football fans get excited and they either try to…

Real Madrid to Open 4 Schools in Kurdistan

KRG-Spain The Real Madrid Foundation has signed an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government to open four Social Sports Schools in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.  On February 14th 2012, in a press conference in Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, held at the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Culture…