Saudi soccer debates broadens over women’s rights and nationalism

Female US Congressional staffers in Riyadh's King Fahd Stadium
By James M. Dorsey
A Saudi debate about the societal role of soccer expanded this week with controversy over a group of female American Congressional staffers being allowed to watch a match in a Riyadh stadium from which Saudi women are barred and a video in which a teacher encouraged his stud…
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