Athletic Diplomacy Archives - Page 10 of 19

Moving The Goalposts: Why North Korea Suddenly Axed Plans for World Cup Qualifier vs Japan

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March 26, 2024

Via NK News, a report on North Korea's sudden reversal on playing a World Cup qualifying match versus Japan, and how the secretive nation uses sport to advance/signal diplomatic goals: What was shaping up to be a [...]

Can Soccer Be Used for Peace? What Congo’s AFCON Protest Really Needed.

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March 18, 2024

Via The Republic, commentary on the Congolese team, the Leopards, which used their platform at the recent AFCON tournament to call for peace and an end to the genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo but were failed by [...]

Can Saudi Arabia Buy Soccer?

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February 26, 2024

Via GQ, a look at how Saudi Arabia is spending an unfathomable fortune to lure the biggest stars of global football to its upstart league. Is this the future of the world’s most popular sport? The vanguard of sportswashing? Or [...]

Australian Sports Diplomacy: A Sure Winner in the Pacific

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February 14, 2024

Via the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a look at how Australian sports diplomacy is a sure winner in the Pacific: In a sold-out stadium in Miami on 21 March 2023, watched by a record audience worldwide, Shohei [...]

The African Cup of Migrations

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February 11, 2024

Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on how aspiring African soccer payers used to leave the continent to pursue their dreams in Europe, but now they are coming home: Amid hotly contested elections, nations abandoning [...]

Saudi Takeover of European Football: About Power, Not Sportswashing

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January 26, 2024

Via The Guardian, reflections on how Saudi investors buying up the Italian and Spanish Super Cups has legitimized the nation’s regime, at home and around the world: In early 2019, a rising [...]

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