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Soccer fans in the Gulf vote with their feet

Soccer fans in the Gulf vote with their feet

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May 02, 2013
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Soccer fans vote with their feet


By James M. Dorsey

Soccer is defeating efforts by wealthy, football-crazy Gulf states to impregnate themselves against the wave of protests that have swept the Middle East and North Africa in the past two years and sparked a brutal civil war in Syria.

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