Sports Diplomacy. Can Sepp Blatter bring unity to a fractious FIFA?
... to link geopolitical issues with football and disrupt FIFA's business model, which they claim remains a cesspool of corruption and bribery. Petro Poroshenko, the pro-Washington president of Ukraine, is calling for a boycott of the FIFA 2018 Russia World Cup. The move is reminiscent of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in which he also used food as a political weapon. FIFA claims it earned an overall gross profit of $2.6 billion on the ...
04.04.2015