Banning of Egyptian player highlights problems of sports governance

Ahmed Abd El-Zaher shows the opposition four-finger sign
By James M. Dorsey
This week’s banning of a prominent Egyptian soccer player for expressing political views on the pitch goes to the core of international sports’ problems: a refusal to recognize the inextricable linkage between sports and politics, the political manipulation of soccer by regimes in…
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