Playing For Statehood
In a world in which soccer is played to score both sports and political goals, Palestine, FIFA’s only member that has yet to establish a state, chalked up its second major political goal in a decade by playing Palestine’s first official game ever since the establishment of Israel in 1948 on home territory.
Soccer is for Palestinians as much a passionate…
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