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Schoolchildren have formed a guard of honour in memory of a footballer who was stabbed to death on a nightclub dancefloor on Boxing Day.

There was also a minute's silence for Cody Fisher at his club's match. The Stratford Town game was the first since his death at the Crane venue in Digbeth, Birmingham.

Rugby League action will be coming to Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium complex after a partnership was agreed by the Midlands Hurricanes and Birmingham City Council.

The Hurricanes, who compete in League One, will play their home fixtures during the 2023 season at the Perry Barr venue – starting with a tie against Cornwall on February 19. 

As people were still trying to get their heads around his passing, former Sampdoria team-mate Graeme Souness was in tears as an interview with him was cut short during Gianluca Vialli tribute. They were both at the opposite ends of their respective football careers, but, even so, the impact that the young, thoughtful, Italian had the then 31-year-old medal-laden Scottish international will, as he said himself, remain with him for ever.

The ambitious plan for a pioneer top quality golf course built near the world-renowned Africa’s premier national park of Serengeti was unveiled, with an 18-hole golf course being constructed within 400 acres at Fort Ikoma, an area that serves as a buffer zone for Serengeti District and the Serengeti National Park. It will be among the world’s few golf courses within or near a national park.

Thousands of mourners lined the streets as Brazilian football icon Pele was laid to rest in Santos, the city of his former club.

Pele had been lying in state for 24 hours in the centre of the pitch at the club's Urbano Caldeira stadium for the public to pay their respects. People crowded the streets as his coffin was carried on a fire truck to a private family funeral.

Hundreds of thousands of highly emotional mourners gathered for the 24-hour memorial wake to pay their final respects to Brazil legend Pele who is lying in state at the Urbano Caldeira stadium – home of his former club Santos, in Sao Paulo.

His coffin was placed in the centre of the pitch as fans lined the streets to get inside the ground, with a procession through the streets of Santos to a private family burial set for today.

The Homeless World Cup is delighted to announce that the 2023 annual tournament will be held in Sacramento, USA. The Homeless World Cup will be celebrating its 20th anniversary next year and it will be the first time that the tournament has been held in the USA.

California State University, Sacramento and national non-profit, Street Soccer USA, will host the tournament in July 2023 with the action taking place on campus at the iconic Hornet Stadium.

As we draw to the end of 2022, I wanted to take the opportunity on behalf of the team at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee to thank you for your fantastic support in helping make the Games so special.

King Charles III had his first winner over the jumps in the Pertemps Qualifier at Wincanton on Boxing Day.

Steal A March saw off a strong field to finish first past the post, making it one of the favourites for the final of the Pertemps race at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

As Brazil woke up to its first day without footballing legend Pelé, his face shone on buildings across the South American nation and landmarks were lit up and fans took to the streets dressed in his iconic number 10 shirt in his memory.

With front pages in the country all talking about Pelé, the country’s government declared three days of national mourning.

The announcement that Brazilian, and world, football legend, Pele has died, has left a numbness that will be felt by people – in and out of the game – for generations to come.

Credited with scoring a world record 1,281 goals in 1,363 appearances during a 21-year career, including 77 goals in 92 matches for his country, he will always be ‘the greatest’, because he was the ‘first’.

According to a statement from the hospital where the 82-year-old Brazil legend is being treated, the world’s greatest ever footballer, Pele, is set to spend Christmas in hospital after medical reports showed that his cancer has worsened.

The three-times World Cup winner was hospitalized in November for doctors to re-evaluate his treatment. The Brazilian icon has been battling colon cancer since September 2021

England and Arsenal star striker, Beth Mead has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022.

She starred at this summer's Euro 2022, where she helped the Lionesses to glory at Wembley, England's first ever major women's football trophy. The 27-year-old becomes the first women's footballer to win the award.

With Lionel Messi finally achieved his dream, as Argentina won their third crown on penalties, in what was said to be one of the greatest finals in the tournament's history, it brought a fitting end to what was the first FIFA World Cup to be held in the Arab world, during what, for many countries, was the first to be held in the middle of a football season, which provided arguably the most open in its history.

Eight-time Olympic Gold medalist, Usain Bolt, is to receive the Lifetime Achievement award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022. The event takes place at MediaCity next week, with the Jamaican superstar saying: “I feel accomplished.

“I’ve accomplished all I wanted to in my sport, so it’s just a great feeling to know that with the determination and sacrifice that I put in that I could accomplish what I wanted to. I always try to motivate people and say listen, believe in yourself and just go out there and do your best.”

Japan’s stunning victory over Germany, in the group stages of the FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022, left their football fans in a state of joyous disbelief and got the rest of the world firmly behind them.

But it’s their supporters who are earning praise in Qatar for their off-pitch tradition that appears to be uniquely Japanese: Cleaning up stadiums after other football fans have left. In what was becoming an increasingly common sight, Japanese fans stayed behind after their team’s win and helped to clean up the Khalifa International Stadium.