Africa is finally ready to disrupt the global football status quo.
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In the Premier League, the proportion of a match where the ball is in play is at a near-record low.
Many feel the money could be better spent developing local sport.
Studying how shared identities like nationality and club affiliation impact fan support for soccer players can tell us how our group memberships affect our behaviour.
Black footballers in the game are given lower scores for technical or cognitive ability than white players.
Should he stay or should he go now?
Now is a good opportunity to take important steps towards transparency.
When done authentically, corporate activism looks and appears easy, but it’s actually easy to get wrong.
Some key winners have emerged off the field.
The World Cup is drawing to an end. Will the tournament be remembered for a Messi moment to rival that of Maradona’s? Or as a breakthrough yeah for African nations?
Some Premier League players may only have mere days to recover from the World Cup before returning to regular season play.
From factors like the number of extra games to the time non-competing players go on break, having the World Cup in the middle of the domestic season could increase injuries.
There was a significant shift towards African football as a business rather than football as development.
The ongoing corruption scandal in the EU Parliament casts a harsh light both on the practices of Qatar and on some of the flaws in the EU institutions.
Football is one of the hardest sports to predict – but there are some fascinating geographical clues when we look at the latitudes of past performers and their ultimate success.
After Brazil’s exit, who might be on course to win in 2022? Experts crunch 150 years of big data to predict the winner.
To qualify for the World Cup, Nigeria’s football structures need to link up with schools and build diverse support.
Cryptocurrency customers and sports fans have crossover demographics, but an advertising splurge could distract from solving deeper problems.
Starry-eyed claims such as “the World Cup brings down cultural barriers” simply do not stand up to scrutiny.
Some tourist destinations are very good at distracting from their questionable approach to civil liberties.
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor and Chair of Allied Health Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Professor of Sports and Exercise Physiology, University of Ibadan
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Finance, University of Stirling