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Middle East looks at creating ‘proper’ football industry

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Apr 13, 2011
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One of the stadiums to be built in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. (File photo)

One of the stadiums to be built in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
SPECIALLY TO AL ARABIYA

Qatar’s successful World Cup 2022 bid coupled with the Middle East’s dismal performance in this year’s Asian Cup, the economic fallout of lengthy suspensions of league matches in several Arab countries as a result of the politi…

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