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Soccer soft power: A double-edged sword

Soccer soft power: A double-edged sword

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Jan 22, 2015
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By James M. Dorsey

An avalanche of criticism of FC Bayern Muenchen, a leading soccer brand and Germany’s most successful club, for playing a commercially driven friendly against Saudi Arabia’s FC Al Hilal amid a crackdown on dissent in the kingdom, the public flogging of a blogger and the putting on trial in a court that deals with terrorism charges of t…

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