In just one week, Jacksonville’s first professional women’s soccer team will make its debut.

Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw has bowed her head and raised a gloved fist after scoring a goal on her first start for Manchester City Women since pulling out of the team because of racist abuse directed at her on social media.

The organization that represents European soccer leagues has rejected latest proposals for a breakaway super league.

Sporting JAX’s women’s soccer team will play its inaugural season at the University of North Florida beginning in August 2025, the franchise and college announced on Tuesday.

Sporting JAX, a club founded in 2020, is announcing the arrival of Jacksonville’s first women’s major league sports franchise in the city on Tuesday.

The National Women’s Soccer League and its players have reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement that eliminates the draft, guarantees all contracts, provides for parental leave and childcare benefits and promises more money to players.

There could be a surprising team from each of Europe’s “big five” leagues when the new-look Champions League debuts next season.

Another well-known Jacksonville sports figure will be part of the group bringing USL professional soccer to Northeast Florida in the coming years.

The landmark Broadway musical “Hamilton” has landed on Roblox, turning the innovative stage show into an immersive online environment for a new generation.

Slowly, steadily and passionately, the vision of the JAX USL soccer is coming together. The slow and steady, the waiting game, is the tough part. Jacksonville’s entries into the United Soccer League is still years off, with the men’s and women’s teams pegged to begin in 2025-26. The passion is easy to spot.

Nine of the 12 Super League clubs have formally renounced the breakaway and committed to the existing European competitions but they will have to give up 5% of UEFA revenue for one season.

So much for Arsenal being one of the elite soccer clubs in Europe.

Real Madrid’s president insists all 12 clubs that signed up for the ill-fated Super League are still bound by contract to the project.

Banners bearing slogans calling for the removal of Liverpool’s American ownership were on view outside Anfield before the team’s Premier League match against Newcastle as English soccer fans continued to show their dissatisfaction about the aborted Super League project.

Several hundred Arsenal fans are protesting outside Emirates Stadium before the team’s English Premier League match against Everton.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says the Spanish and Italian clubs still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway project or face being banned from the Champions League.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has maintained his support for the Super League despite the quick exit of 10 of the 12 founding clubs in the breakaway competition.

Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez says the Super League is far from dead and its clubs have not given up on the idea of the breakaway competition even though they had to abandon the project just a few days after it was announced.

After the aborted attempt to form a European Super League, Liverpool owner John Henry is attempting to regain the trust of fans with an apology video.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has directly appealed to the owners of English clubs in the Super League project to change their minds out of respect for soccer fans.

What if college football’s most powerful teams, the biggest of the big boys, tried to do what is happening now in European soccer, where a dozen of the wealthiest and most successful clubs are in the process of forming a 15-team Super League.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from the European Championship and next year’s World Cup.

A group of 12 elite clubs has dramatically split European soccer by announcing plans to walk away from the Champions League.