Posts Tagged: Middle East Soccer
Pushback Grows as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and More Buy the World’s Best Soccer Teams and Players
Saudi Arabia’s stunning sports acquisition blitz, alongside Qatari and Emirati European club purchases, may reshape the game -- just not in ways that Crown Prince...
Soccer Emerges as the Potential Icebreaker of the Gulf Crisis
It was on the soccer pitch that 2022 World Cup host Qatar definitively shrugged off the UAE-Saudi-led economic and diplomatic boycott of the Gulf state,...
The 2018 World Cup Could Become the Middle East’s Latest Battlefield
The simultaneous presence in Russia of the Saudi and Iranian teams for the 2018 World Cup is likely to shine a spotlight on the covert...
