Stadium construction: A political barometer

By James M. Dorsey
Politics is never divorced from sports, not even when it comes to the construction of stadia. Budgets however have recently thwarted plans in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to build a host of sporting facilities in a bid to either win votes or curry favour with youth and other segments of the population.
By contrast, Qatar despite the risk of …
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