Via Foreign Policy, commentary on the potential impact of a boycott of Israeli soccer and a broader look at the convergence of soccer and activism:
FIFA, global soccer’s governing body, is facing growing calls to ban [...]
October
27,
2023
Via The Economist, a look at North Korea's women’s football team which is an explosive propaganda tool:
George Orwell — who is too good a source of aphorisms to worry about their truth—once opined that sport was “war [...]
October
9,
2023
Via The Economist, a look at how India's Narendra Modi has seized and politicized Indian cricket:
“Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.” The first line of Ashis Nandy’s “The Tao of [...]
August
27,
2023
Via The Economist, a look at Saudi Arabia's recent spending of a fortune on sport:
On August 11th Saudi Arabia’s biggest football competition, the Saudi Pro League, will kick off for the 2023-24 season. Last season’s [...]
August
1,
2023
Via Football Paradise, an article on CONIFA:
In Qatar, the dust, in both a literal and figurative sense, is just settling after a barnstorming three weeks of football produced a raft of historic moments; the drama, [...]
Via E-International Relations, an interesting interview on the geopolitical economy of sport:
Simon Chadwick is Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy at Skema Business School in Paris, with more than 25 years’ [...]