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All Alone, Belarus Plays On

There were a handful of thermal-imaging cameras outside Dynamo Brest’s stadium on Friday, intended to pluck out and turn away anyone showing signs of fever. Both Brest and its opponent, Smolevichi, had been given hygiene advice: wash your hands with soap, avoid hugging. The Ministry of Health had decreed that

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2020 Mar, 24

Coronavirus Compounds Financial Concerns in Women’s Sports

For Isabelle Harrison, the coronavirus wake-up call came when she rushed to her grocery store in Bologna, Italy, to find the shelves cleaned out of pasta. Spaghetti. Fusilli. Even tiny bags of tiny macaroni. All gone. “I immediately thought, ‘Uh oh, there’s no pasta in Italy?’” Harrison said in a recent phone

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2020 Mar, 21

European Soccer’s Leaders Plot a Speedy Return, With or Without Fans

In Italy, soccer stopped as fans of Lazio, a club based in Rome, were dreaming that their two-decade wait for a league title might be ending, buoyed by an unbeaten run that started in September. In England, Liverpool was on course to end its 30-year championship drought with an all-but-insurmountable 25-point

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2020 Mar, 19

In Pausing Their Sport, Soccer’s Leaders Put Everyone on the Clock

MANCHESTER, England — Power, it turned out, was the problem: Who had it, who wanted it, who would get to keep it. Remove that, and present those who scrapped and bickered and threatened to paralyze soccer over it with something they could not barter or bully, and suddenly all the hard,

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2020 Mar, 18

Soccer the Sport Must Stop. Soccer the Business Probably Can’t.

Enjoying this newsletter every week? Send it to a friend, or six, or 10, and tell them to sign up at nytimes.com/rory. All of a sudden, in the course of 72 hours or so, what had been a steady stream — a postponement here, a ban on fans there, a piecemeal

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2020 Mar, 14

The Stranded Stars of Wuhan F.C.

A professional soccer team from Wuhan, China, went to Spain for preseason training. And got stuck. For weeks. Now, as the virus spreads in Europe, they may be safer back home. The Stranded Stars of Wuhan F.C. By Photographs by MARBELLA, Spain — Many times, Yao Hanlin has pictured what his homecoming will look

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2020 Mar, 13