Leadership is a major constraint to the development of Africa’s most popular sport.
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Hosting a mega-event isn’t all it’s cracked up to be - and now some cities are starting to say ‘no’.
The recent untoward behaviours in sport are not limited to athletes alone. Rather, there are allegations of corruption throughout sports systems.
Reform of FIFA is clearly needed, but it must accommodate dissent of the anglo-centric world view.
Answers to the challenging question of why Africans unanimously supported Sepp Blatter for a 5th term – and what they portend for the future.
Getting rid of a morally tarnished leader is often the easiest part of cleaning up an organisation. The hard work begins now within FIFA.
Blatter’s decision to step down shocked the world. We asked a few academics to weigh in on what it means.
Blatter has stepped down, but this may not be the last we see of him.
Blatter has resigned on his own terms, at his own pace. FIFA is not saved.
The FIFA chief’s surprise resignation was the only halfway decent choice he had left. Now it’s up to the reformers to clean house.
Russia sees last week’s FIFA arrests as politically motivated mischief-making by the US. A UEFA boycott would add to this paranoia.
I have lived in the US for over three decades. And I have never seen soccer – that is, real “football” – dominate the front pages of US newspapers for so many days and with so many stories. In that sense…
UEFA might lack the members to out-vote FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, but it’s got a lot of power in other forms.
The US move against corruption in FIFA, which has been both praised and condemned, strengthens America’s soft power around the world.
Blatter’s re-election reflects the powerful rejoinder he’s made to the Eurocentric view of football. But he’ll be hard pressed to outlive the latest crisis.
There is a growing business risk for sponsors from being associated with FIFA and they are better placed than UEFA even to push for reform.
Corruption at the pinnacle of sports sets a tone for all the rest. Targeting its roots is the right thing to do no matter what comes of the FBI’s investigation.
Football is a huge deal in Europe but less so in the states. So why did it take action from Loretta Lynch to topple FIFA?
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Reader in Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University
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Professor of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor, International Politics, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance, Emory University
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor of African History, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Finance, University of Stirling
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Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer, Department for Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath
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Lecturer, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University