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Banning of Egyptian player highlights problems of sports governance

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Nov 13, 2013
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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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