UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Soccer fans around the world will now have a day to celebrate the world’s most popular sport every year – May 25.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution Tuesday proclaiming May 25 as World Football Day. The sport is called football outside of the United States.
The day marks the 100th anniversary of the firs t international soccer tournament in history with the representation of all regions which took place on May 25, 1924 during the summer Olympic games held in Paris, according to the resolution.
The 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution by consensus with a bang of the gavel by its president, Dennis Francis, to applause from diplomats in the assembly chamber. It was co-sponsored by more than 160 countries.
Libya’s U.N. Ambassador Taher El-Sonni, who introduced the resolution, told the assembly, “Football or soccer as others call it is t he number one game played and followed around the globe.”
Washington moves seen as risking instability
Rail strikes chaos brings Britain's creaking train lines to a halt
Recreational marijuana backers try to overcome rocky history in South Dakota
Auto experts decry threat of US curbs
Mother of Australian surfers killed in Mexico gives moving tribute to sons
Beraldo selected in central defense for PSG to face Dortmund in Champions League semifinal
Jewish student is ordered to leave Oxford encampment after refusing to sign up to radical pro
China's Disciplinary Agency Pledges to Implement Party Congress Principles
Pennsylvania Senate approves GOP's $3B tax
CPC Leadership Meeting Stresses Implementing Decisions, Plans of Key Party Congress in Unity
Connecticut House passes plan to spend remaining COVID funds, forgoing changes to state budget