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Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker

Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker

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Jun 07, 2019
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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 …

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