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FIFA’s Blatter unwittingly pinpoints soccer governance’s prime issues

FIFA’s Blatter unwittingly pinpoints soccer governance’s prime issues

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Jul 05, 2015
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By James M. Dorsey

Embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter unwittingly put his finger on two fundamental issues that underlie a corruption scandal that has rocked world soccer governance, the worst crisis in the sport’s history: the fiction that sports and politics are separate and hypocrisy that distorts legitimate debate about Qatar’s successful but cont…

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