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Search results for "Dutch referee Rob Dieperink dies aged 38, weeks after being dropped from World Cup"

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Facebook posts stated on July 08, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Soccer players on the U.S. women’s national team "stomped" on the American flag.
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 25, 2019
Facebook posts stated on June 16, 2024 in a post:
Cristiano Ronaldo was the only European soccer captain who did not wear a rainbow armband at Euro 2020.
By Grace Abels• June 21, 2024
Social Media stated on March 09, 2025 in in social media posts:
Video shows President Donald Trump admitting he became president because of a “rigged” 2024 election.
By Jeff Cercone• March 10, 2025
Facebook posts stated on July 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A photograph shows members of the U.S. women’s soccer team kneeling during the national anthem at the Tokyo Olympics.
By Madison Czopek• July 26, 2021
Instagram posts stated on January 21, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Sports journalist Mike Dickson died because of COVID-19 vaccines.
By Madison Czopek• January 23, 2024
John Oliver stated on June 08, 2014 in a segment on "Last Week Tonight":
FIFA "pressured Brazil into passing a so-called Budweiser bill, allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums."
By Katie Sanders• June 11, 2014
Facebook posts stated on July 26, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Doctors in the Netherlands “ordered” to euthanize “citizens with autism and other minor disabilities, even if the patient does not currently express any desire to die."
By Jeff Cercone• July 28, 2023
John Oliver stated on June 08, 2014 in a segment on "Last Week Tonight":
Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that "is only going to be used for four World Cup games," and there’s no team "that can fill it afterwards."
By Katie Sanders• June 11, 2014
Instagram posts stated on June 20, 2022 in an Instagram post:
According to International Olympic Committee data, “an average of 29 athletes under the age of 35 suffered sudden death per year from 1966 to 2004. From March 2021 to March 2022, 769 athletes have died or suffered cardiac arrest."
By Samantha Putterman• June 23, 2022
Jeremy Schaap stated on May 28, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Qataris don't really work."
By Jon Greenberg• June 2, 2014
Facebook posts stated on April 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Derek Chauvin’s trial and conviction for the murder of George Floyd was faked as part of a “false flag.”
By Bill McCarthy• April 21, 2021
Rob Portman stated on July 11, 2013 in a news conference call:
"I was filibustered."
By Stephen Koff• July 29, 2013
Alex Berenson stated on November 20, 2021 in a blog post:
Vaccinated people under 60 in England “are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age. ... I don’t know how to explain this other than vaccine-caused mortality.”
By Tom Kertscher• November 30, 2021
Rob Portman stated on August 18, 2010 in a radio interview:
"More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more."
By Stephen Koff• September 2, 2010
Facebook posts stated on February 02, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Seniors around the world who died from COVID vaccine are being improperly listed as “natural causes.”
By Tom Kertscher• February 5, 2021
Facebook posts stated on June 18, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:
“En la Eurocopa 2020, la Unión Europea impuso a todos los capitanes de selecciones nacionales llevar el distintivo lgtb. Pero Cristiano fue el único capitán de la Euro que se negó y no llevo el cintillo lgtb”.
By Grace Abels, Marta Campabadal Graus• June 21, 2024
Peter Beinart stated on July 06, 2014 in comments on CNN:
"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."
By Derek Tsang• July 10, 2014
Facebook posts stated on June 06, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were “meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.”
By Tom Kertscher• June 15, 2021
Jerry Falwell Jr. stated on January 01, 2019 in a newspaper interview.:
"This midterm (election), the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms."  
By Warren Fiske• January 8, 2019
Viral image stated on April 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says a video shows a “gay party in Italy few weeks before COVID-19.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 14, 2020

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By Alex Min• July 13, 2026

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Fact-checks about FIFA and the World Cup

By Katie Sanders• June 20, 2014

Fact-checks about FIFA and the World Cup

By Katie Sanders• June 20, 2014

The facts about FIFA

By Katie Sanders• May 27, 2015

Does the U.S. women’s soccer team bring in more revenue but get paid less than the men?

By Sophie Austin, Louis Jacobson• July 11, 2019

Trump called the 2026 World Cup history’s ‘most successful.’ Problems cloud ticket sales

By Maria Briceño, Alex Min• June 12, 2026

Fact-checking claims about Brazil's World Cup

By Katie Sanders• June 12, 2014

Fact-checking the Starbucks heckler-Rick Scott spat

By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• April 6, 2016

The power of fact-checking in today's world

By Aaron Sharockman• June 13, 2017

Viral photo is of a doll, not a 12-week fetus

By Stefanie Pousoulides• July 29, 2019

Trump's posts on Brown shooting, Reiner killing highlight a rush to post before facts are known

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• December 15, 2025

Ex-Wisconsin football star: 'Women don’t know football … they are incapable'

By Tom Kertscher• October 10, 2017

Mailbag, the sequel

By Ciara O'Rourke, W. Gardner Selby• June 24, 2011

Fact-checking claims about the economy in 2014

By Louis Jacobson• December 30, 2014

The guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin, explained

By Bill McCarthy• April 20, 2021

Ask PolitiFact: Children are far less likely to die from COVID-19. Why do they need vaccination?

By Amy Sherman• October 27, 2021

Editing tricks in viral Biden ad intensify world leaders’ seeming distaste for Trump

By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• December 12, 2019

Groups stretching the truth to get your vote

By Stephen Koff• October 13, 2010

How faithful is ‘Conclave’ about the process of picking a new pope? We fact-checked the movie

By Loreben Tuquero• May 1, 2025