A win is possible - but only in 2026 or 2030 and only if African teams get to play more high level internationals more regularly.
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No African team has reached the semi-final stage. Out of Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, the most likely to do so is Senegal.
As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, a scholar probes questions of identity in the American game. Is Mexico really the US’s ‘other team’?
Puma’s support for Israeli football teams in the occupied Palestinian territories goes against FIFA’s rules.
The stakes are high.
Soccer’s governing body has long sheltered behind a view that the game is apolitical. Sanctioning Russia over invasion exposes why that doesn’t hold.
It’s the most expensive FIFA World Cup in history.
Euro 2020 was full of successes for this team, we shouldn’t forget that.
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino wants to bring forward plans to expend the tournament from 32 to 48 countries. But it’s not going to be easy.
New! Mega sports events wash your government’s tarnished reputation whiter-than-white.
It seems likely that football will remain a pawn in an intensifying proxy war.
The Russia and Qatar World Cups are backward steps for LGBT rights – unless FIFA can use the tournaments to achieve change.
Comparisons with other immigration systems that deny rights to temporary workers raise questions over Britain’s post-Brexit future.
It’s all to do with PSG’s Qatari owners.
Despite Australia squandering $43 million on a failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Lowy football dynasty lives on.
Reform of FIFA is clearly needed, but it must accommodate dissent of the anglo-centric world view.
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.
The big beasts of European club football have missed a chance to make a Champions League style land grab from the sport’s governing body.
A winter World Cup in Qatar is no one-off inconvenience, it’s football’s new normal.
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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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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