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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🎥 Man City Women win first ever World Sevens match
🎥 Man City Women win first ever World Sevens match Manchester City Women kicked off their World Sevens campaign in style with a 4-0 victory over Rosengard in sunny Estoril, Lisbon. Check out the highlights here. City face Ajax and Bayern Munich in a double-header on Thursday 22 May at 13:30 and 18:30 (UK time) to complete the group stage. 📸 Gualter Fatia - 2025 Getty Images
DW
20-05-2025
- Business
- DW
World Sevens Football aiming to transform women's game – DW – 05/20/2025
World Sevens Football is a new seven-a-side format focused on global reach, player empowerment, and financial equity. However, the fast-paced new series is not without its critics. Women's football is experiencing a surge — breaking attendance records, drawing new investment, and inspiring a new generation of players and fans. Now World Sevens Football (W7F) , a new seven-a-side series, is aiming to take advantage of this boom. It is looking to bring faster, more dynamic matches to fans around the world, while giving players an opportunity for a significant financial reward. However, the inaugural event, which is to take place in Estoril, Portugal from May 21-23, has been criticized for disrupting the Swedish league schedule for participants Rosengard, as well as adding to player workloads ahead of the Women's Euros in July. Created to redefine the women's game The idea for World Sevens Football came from the series' co-founders, entrepreneur Justin Fishkin and NY/NJ Gotham FC and Chelsea minority owner Jennifer Mackesy, with the latter having committed to an investment of US $100 million (€88,7 million) over five years. They have not disclosed how much other shareholders may have invested. "This project has come from our (Fishkin and Macksey's) shared passion for women's football and the new formats that are proliferating through various sports around the world," Fishkin told DW. The games are to feature two 15-minute halves on a pitch half the size of a standard 11-a-side field. The smaller pitch was set up within the multi-use Antonio Coimbra da Mota Stadium, including custom-made areas for fans, activations and entertainment to help differentiate the atmosphere from a regular football game. In an age of digital-first entertainment, the shorter format and smaller pitch, as has also been tried on the men's side, is ideally suited to attract younger fans, Fishkin believes. "The emerging sports fan globally is less inclined to sit down for 90 minutes and watch a game," he said. "Seven-a-side is made for social media. It's familiar, fast, and accessible." Putting players first One of the series' defining features is its player-centric approach. The Player Advisory Council, is made up of current and former players, including names like Tobin Heath, Anita Asante and Caroline Seger. Former Swedish international Seger told DW the purpose of the advisory council was to help shape player care and welfare, the competition strategy, and make a positive long-term impact on the players and clubs. "It's very important to see it from the players' perspective, because normally everyone else is making decisions above the players' heads," she explained. "Anything, from travelling, to the facilities, how the game should be played, what players want to eat after a game. Sometimes it's small things but they're all important." Fishkin echoed the reasoning behind adopting the Player Advisory Council. "It was critical to us that this be a player-centric competition." he said. "We needed it to be designed by people who know and love the game." Financial rewards significant Clubs will be allowed to bring a squad of 25, with 14 being eligible to play per match. The tournament prize pool is $5 million, including $2.5 million for the winners – significantly more than the €1.4 million the Champions League victors are to earn. Georgia Stanway will feature for Bayern Munich in the inaugural World Sevens Football tournament Image: David Inderlied/Kirchner-Media/IMAGO The prize money for the top four teams is to be divided between clubs, and their players and staff, with the exact distribution determined by each club, while the teams that finish fifth to eighth will receive a participation fee, and the tournament's organizers are to pay for each team's flights and accommodation. "You'll see that 40% of the prize monies are going directly to players and staff," Fishkin said. "We've had teams where captains have said, 'We wanted to make sure everyone (all first team players at the club) gets paid, not just the players that participate.' and that's being driven from the players up to management.' Swedish league schedule clash The financial rewards drew immediate interest from the inaugural eight teams, which include Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Ajax and Roma. However, as World Sevens Football is a series that has not been sanctioned by either FIFA or UEFA and is therefore outside of the world football calendar, decisions on participation rest solely at the discretion of the clubs. With the competition not being part of the football calendar, Swedish club Rosengard have had to request to move their first division league match against Hacken that is scheduled for May 24, to participate in the inaugural event in Portugal. This has drawn criticism from Swedish league leaders Hammarby, as well as former Swedish international defender Hanna Marklund. "I perceive it as frivolous if you do not fully invest in the women's league," Marklund told Swedish national broadcaster SVT. "It's positive that interest in women's football is increasing, but it's important to find the right time for tournaments like this. Moving a league match to play a seven-a-side tournament is not something I see as an okay reason." The Swedish side are the only team to face this issue for the inaugural event, with most other domestic European leagues having finished their seasons in mid-May. Whether this problem will crop up again, remains to be seen. Organizers hope to hold a second tournament late this year, but neither dates nor location have been confirmed. 'The tables have turned' While questions remain, including over ticket sales and how much interest has been generated for fans in an already bloated football calendar, Seger said the biggest draw for her to being involved with World Sevens football was the feeling she was working with "allies" wanting to promote women's football. "I wanted to work with people that feel the same way (about women's football), so I don't have to always fight my way through," Seger said. "The tables have turned, and you don't have to fight as hard. Even if there's still a long way to go, it's a lot easier today than 20 years ago." Edited by: Chuck Penfold
Boston Globe
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
‘This process is illegal': Advocates, legal experts say new BPS bus policy runs afoul of federal special education law
School districts normally can't make changes to students' individual education plans — legal agreements spelling out the services they'll receive in school, which can include transportation — without the permission of parents, according to Santiago. Related : Advertisement Boston's transportation plan would allow administrators to do exactly that, she said. 'I have serious concerns that this process is illegal as it's written,' Santiago said. 'The district is legally required to provide transportation where the student needs that because of their disability in order to benefit from special education.' Daniel Rosengard, the BPS executive director for transportation, said the new procedures focus solely on students who don't take a district-provided bus or van to school, so resources can be directed at the students who do. The district has determined that roughly 400 students with disabilities and have transportation included in their education plans are not using those services, according to Rosengard. Under the new procedures, which are expected to launch in May, Boston would be able to pause transportation for those special education students. He argued the district isn't changing those students' education plans, since transportation can be reinstated at any time. Advertisement 'What this is is an operating procedure to make sure that we aren't sending buses for students who don't need and aren't using the bus,' Rosengard said. 'This is about pausing transportation for students who are not using the bus at all, and are not engaging with BPS transportation.' Related : The district's transportation plan makes use of data collected by a tracking app launched at the start of the academic year, which allows district officials to figure out which students are not taking the bus to school. So far this year, the district has identified about 2,000 students who don't use the bus, half of whom have opted out of the service after the district contacted those families, according to Rosengard. The district is still working with the remaining students, including about 400 students with disabilities who have transportation included in their education plans. The district began outreach in October, calling and sending emails to families in their native languages. Ridership data is also shared with school building leaders so they can also have conversations about bus use with families, the district said. The plan was developed by a Transportation Advisory Council that included students, families of students with disabilities, community partners, and BPS and non-BPS school administrators, according to the district. So far, the district has shaved off about 400 bus stops from the 10,800 that were in place at the start of the school year, according to the district. Such changes have helped the district nearly hit its state-mandated on-time arrival rate of 95 percent. Advertisement It costs Boston about $180 million to transport more than 20,000 students, and those expenses are expected to rise about $8 million in fiscal 2026. 'The goal is about improving reliability and on-time performance for the students who use the bus and making sure that our resources are allocated equitably and efficiently,' Rosengard said. That misses the point of offering transportation through students' individual education plans, said Roxi Harvey, a former chair of the Boston Special Education Parent Advisory Council who is raising two teenagers with disabilities. Parents who secured transportation through their child's individual education plan are entitled to those services, she said. The district's transportation plan puts cost-cutting ahead of children's needs, she said, and erects a barrier between students and their education. 'The students that are the most vulnerable are being put in an even more precarious situation,' Harvey said. Advocates like Santiago and Collins Fay-Martin argued if the district has data on which students with disabilities are not taking their transportation to school, administrators should try to understand why. 'If the students are not accessing transportation, BPS should be figuring out why and trying to resolve those issues, not take away their service,' Santiago said. Advocates said there are numerous reasons why a student with disabilities isn't taking their bus or van to school. They could be sick, or the student could have a safety concern on the vehicle, they said. The student may feel uncomfortable waiting for the transportation, and their parent is driving them to school instead. There could be language issues, or parents are unsure who to notify. Advertisement In some cases, a child who is behaviorally dysregulated just can't get into the van or bus, and a parent may have to figure out another way to get the child to school. A school district seeking to make a change to a student's individual education plan would need to present those changes during a special education team meeting that includes the child's parent, and then in writing to that child's family. These meetings involve families and school district administrators and, at times, include attorneys representing each side. If the family doesn't agree to the change, the district has the option of seeking a decision from the state's Bureau of Special Education Appeals. Families may be reluctant to pause special education transportation. Setting up those services for a student with disabilities can be a complicated, weeks-long process that can also involve coordinating adult monitors to ride along on the bus, Fay-Martin said. 'This is a very passive BPS policy that appears to suggest that no one at the school knows why the kid isn't taking transportation,' she said. Edith Bazile, a retired BPS educator and member of the Boston Special Education Advisory Council, said she's worried parents will go along with Boston's new procedures without understanding their rights under state and federal special education law. If a student's education plan says that child needs transportation to get to school, the district is required to provide it, Bazile said. 'The only way for that student to get to school is if the district provides transportation, so the district cannot create a policy that unilaterally removes that entitlement,' Bazile said. 'We're talking about a civil right.' Advertisement John Hilliard can be reached at
BBC News
14-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Holdt brings 'X factor' Tottenham have missed
Tottenham manager Robert Vilahamn believes January signing Olivia Holdt can give his side the 'X factor' they have been midfielder Holdt joined Tottenham at the beginning of January from Swedish side Rosengard, but could not feature until the end of the month due to a leg scored a 95th-minute winner against Crystal Palace on her debut, and has since made three more substitute are seventh in the WSL table following three straight defeats, but Vilahamn feels Holdt can help the team kick on during the final stretch of the campaign."We signed a really good player and person, she brings smiles to faces, she's a funny person," Vilahamn said."She's getting back to the shape she was in Sweden. You can tell she is back, she showed she has X factor that we don't have in this team."She's very good at getting the ball out of tight areas, very good to find the last pass. She is taking steps all the time, we played a friendly last week in which she played her first 90 minutes for a lonig time."She is still adapting to this league, it's much tougher than Swedish league. From next season I think she will be one of the best players in this league."Here are the other key lines from Vilahamn ahead of Sunday's match against Brighton & Hove Albion (kick-off 15:00 GMT):Striker Bethany England misses out with a "quad issue" while defender Charli Grant is ruled out with Martha Thomas is available after recovering from a twisted Kit Graham has "a few more months to go" in her recovery from an ACL believes Tottenham can finish fifth and match their best-ever WSL Tottenham getting seven Women's Football Awards nominations: "It's connected to how we work together and shows how this club tries to push the level up."Loaning Becky Spencer to Chelsea is a "win-win" for both player and club, especially if it helps Chelsea beat Tottenham's rivals.
