Association Football
- FIFA Women's World Cup – Norway won 2-0 over Germany
- World Club Championship – AFC Ajax defeat Grêmio 0-0 (4-3 in penalty shootout)
- UEFA Champions League – AFC Ajax defeat A.C. Milan 1-0
- Copa Libertadores da América – Grêmio defeat Atlético Nacional 4-2 (aggregate score)
- Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League, denying Manchester United a hat treick of titles
- December 15 – European football is shaken to its foundations when the European Court of Justice rules that:
- Clubs in the European Union cannot be restricted from signing foreign players who are nationals of EU member states
- Players under contract to clubs in the EU are entitled to a free transfer at the end of their contracts
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“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
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