• The Canadian Press

    Brazil soccer player Gabriel Barbosa cleared by CAS to play during appeal in doping rules case

    LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Brazilian soccer player Gabriel Barbosa can resume playing pending an appeal against his ban for a breach of doping rules, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday. The Flamengo and Brazil forward, known as Gabigol, is challenging a two-year ban imposed in March by an anti-doping tribunal in Brazil. He was judged to have evaded a doping control in April 2023 and banned until April next year. He denied a charge of doping fraud. The CAS said its panel of judg

  • PA Media: Sport

    Lucy Bronze welcomes new research into ACL injury crisis in women’s game

    Bronze’s England team-mates Beth Mead and Leah Williamson have suffered anterior cruciate ligament injuries.

  • The Guardian

    Project ACL: WSL clubs to take part in pioneering injuries research project

    Clubs are to be the subject of a three-year research initiative designed to find ways of reducing the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injuries

  • The Canadian Press

    Project ACL launched to help understand, reduce knee injuries in women's footballers

    A three-year study dubbed Project ACL launched Tuesday with the goal of reducing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injuries in women's soccer. The project is a collaboration between FIFPro, England's Professional Footballers Association, Nike and Leeds Beckett University. FIFPro is the global union for professional football players representing some 65,000 players. ACL injuries are two to six times more likely to occur in women than men and some two-thirds of ACL injuries occur in women’s fo