Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker
By James M. Dorsey
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It was on the soccer pitch that 2022 World Cup host Qatar definitively shrugged off the UAE-Saudi-led economic and diplomatic boycott of the Gulf state as the crisis entered its third year with no prospect of …