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Gulf crisis ties global soccer governance into knots

Gulf crisis ties global soccer governance into knots

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Jun 22, 2017
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By James M. Dorsey

International soccer governance is tying itself up in knots with football associations grappling with the fallout of the Gulf dispute between Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Qatar that lays bare the contradictions embedded in their insistence that sports and politics do not mingle.

The contradictions were evident in different responses…

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