Borg vs Buttigieg: The Quiet Power Struggle Reshaping Maltese Football’s Backyard By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s Republic Street was still yawning itself awake last Saturday when the first WhatsApp voice-note landed: “U iva, who’s really running the Malta FA – Alex or Johann?” By the time the kiosks had clipped the weekend papers to their…
On a wind-lashed afternoon in Għar Lapsi, while most Maltese fishermen were still mending their nets, Croatian freediver Budimir Šobat was preparing to do what science once swore was impossible: stay alive without breathing for 29 minutes and 30 seconds. The record, ratified last week by Guinness World Records, did not fall in the Red…
**Game-Changers of the Heart: New Mental Wellbeing Programme Launches for Special Olympics Malta Athletes** Valletta – In a sun-splashed courtyard overlooking the Grand Harbour, Special Olympics Malta athletes, coaches and families gathered yesterday to launch the island’s first mental wellbeing programme tailored specifically for athletes with intellectual disabilities. Dubbed “Qalbna, Qalbna” (“Our Hearts, Our Hearts”),…
**Malta’s Nation League Hopes: A Small Island, One Big Dream** *By Hot Malta Newsroom* The rain that lashed Ta’ Qali on Tuesday night had barely dried when the first flags appeared on balconies in Birkirkara. By Wednesday morning, the kiosk outside the Ħamrun scouts’ club had sold out of red T-shirts in every size but…
Valletta-born physiotherapist Rebecca Camilleri has spent the last decade patching up rock-climbing injuries at the national sports pavilion in Cottonera, but in three weeks’ time she will be the one needing ice-packs and altitude meds. The 34-year-old mother of twin girls is flying to Argentina to attempt Aconcagua—at 6,961 m the tallest peak outside Asia—and,…
Football-mad Malta woke up to a new era yesterday as the long-awaited National Football Centre was officially opened at Ta’ Qali, flanked by two bona-fide Italian legends who know what it takes to reach the very summit of the game. World-Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro and former Inter & Juventus striker Christian Vieri swapped the San…
Prime Minister Robert Abela this morning cut a ribbon of red-and-white ribbons to officially open the long-awaited National Football Centre at Ta’ Qali, hailing the €17 million complex as “a new chapter for Maltese sport that belongs to every village and every child who has ever chased a ball through a dusty alley.” The centre,…
‘I’m in nobody’s pocket’ – Alex Borg The maverick Maltese snooker ace who refuses to be a puppet in anyone’s theatre By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – Walk into the Qawra Snooker Club on any given Tuesday night and the first thing you’ll hear is the clack of resin balls. The second is Alex Borg’s…
# Seven-Goal Turin Thriller Has Malta’s Juventini Singing in the Streets The final whistle at the Allianz Stadium had barely echoed across the Mediterranean before car horns and tricolour flags replaced the usual Tuesday-night calm on Valletta’s Strait Street. Juventus’ wild 4-3 win over Inter in the Derby d’Italia—sealed by a 90th-minute Arkadiusz Milik header—sent…
**Dramatic Juve Win Ignites Maltese Football Frenzy as Serie A Rivalry Reaches Fever Pitch** The clock struck 90 at the Allianz Stadium, and across Malta, living rooms erupted in unison. Juventus’ Federico Gatti had just thundered home a last-gasp header, snatching a dramatic 3-2 victory over bitter rivals Inter Milan and preserving the Bianconeri’s perfect…
**Gozo 7 Challenge “Designed to Fail” – Neil Agius Slams Organisers as Gozitan Swimmers Feel Snubbed** *By Hot Malta Newsroom* Sliema’s dawn training crowd was still rubbing sand off their feet when Neil Agius dropped the bombshell: last weekend’s Gozo 7 relay—hyped as the island’s first-ever 70 km circum-swim of sister-island Gozo—was “designed to fail…
**Maltese Premier League wants GO and Melita to pay up for online streaming** In a move that could reshape how thousands of Maltese football fans watch their beloved local game, the Maltese Premier League has demanded that telecom giants GO and Melita start paying for the right to stream matches online. The league’s governing body…
