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Showing posts with label FIFA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FIFA. Show all posts
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Politics complicates football: Sympathy for ... Iran

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As advertised , last week in Kraków, Poland, I had the great privilege to talk law, development, and the FIFA World Cup, with the group sta...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

With FIFA World Cup under way in Qatar, law students study sport and soft power, law and development

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I'll be talking law, development, and the World Cup today in Kraków, Poland. Thanks to the American Law Scientific Circle (KNPA) and Am...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Qatar World Cup opens Sunday; meanwhile, Netflix series stokes embers of FIFA corruption scandal

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I visited CONMEBOL HQ in Asunción, Paraguay, in October. The South American angle on the FIFA corruption scandal was engagingly fictionaliz...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Crisis worsens in Lviv; FIFA at last suspends Russia

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Stand with Ukraine rally at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. ( image by Victoria Pickering CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) ABC News has published ...
Friday, January 14, 2022

RIP Andrew Jennings, legendary investigative sport reporter who exposed corruption in FIFA, IOC

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Andrew Jennings testifies in a Brazilian legislative probe  of the national football federation ( photo by Waldemir Barreto/Agência Senado ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Report from a Social Distance Week 8: Speaking of Football, Magic, and Beer ...

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Del's is a Rhode Island tradition.  ( Photo by Lady Ducayne CC BY-NC 2.0 .) This will be my last weekly report for a while.  I'...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Football is universal

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Football in the Jamestown district of Accra, Ghana ( CC BY-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele) I'm a believer in sport and development and a pa...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Whistleblowers call foul, Play the Game

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Marcus Carmichael (Chris Turner CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) Whistleblowers are basking in an adoring limelight in the United States right now. T...
Friday, November 3, 2017

UIA Congress studies global legal issues: irresponsible journalism, anti-corruption in sport, and intellectual freedom in fashion

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Just this week I returned from the annual world congress of the Union Internationale des Avocats, which did not disappoint.   Lawyers f...
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