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🎥 Gaza’s Vanishing Stadiums

The football story that is being ignored.

Hundred’s of footballers killed, stadiums destroyed, illegal matches in occupied territories and almost complete silence from FIFA.

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Gaza's Vanishing Stadiums. The Football Story That Is Being Ignored.
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Looking for a positive football story, have a watch of this ⤵️

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Why Thomas Müller chose the new soccer capital of Canada! | KICKING OFF EP 4: Vancouver
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November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Premier League clubs have voted to overhaul the league’s financial regulations from the start of the 2026-27 season.

Full story from @mjslater.bsky.social here ⬇️

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November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
200+ women including prominent actors and writers, signed a letter sent to Barbara Čeferin, the wife of European Football (UEFA) President Aleksander Čeferin, on Friday, urging her to do “everything in your power to help remove Israel from European football.”

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EXCLUSIVE: 200+ Women, Including Celebrities, Call for European Football to Ban Israel
The women, including Nicola Coughlan and Carice van Houten, sent a letter directly appealing to the wife of UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin to 'help remove Israel' from the association.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Premier League introduces new financial rules to replace PSR. Clubs “on-field” spending will be limited to 85 percent of their “football revenue”. They can exceed this by 30 percent in exchange for a levy for a period of time and then face sporting sanctions. The clubs rejected anchoring proposal.
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Talking about modern football…

Sex offenders of the world unite!
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Alex Muzio: "FIFA is really going beyond the pale in terms of interaction, transparency, and governance. It’s pretty clear that FIFA governance has somehow worsened in the last ten years, which is coming from the lowest possible bar.”

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Union Of European Clubs Sounds The Alarm: Where’s FIFA’s $250 Million Club World Cup Solidarity?
Alex Muzio criticized the global governing body.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The White House have published official photos of the Ronaldo visit.

Try not to get angry looking at these pictures.

Link below.

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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino once again at the White House and once again ignoring FIFAs political neutrality rules.

Summary of video highlights below.

1/5 Trump gloating about record ticket sales at the most unaffordable World Cup of all time.

Thread of 5 videos.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Haiti's qualification for the 2026 World Cup means there are now two nations going to the tournament whose citizens are subject to US travel bans.
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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A rare photo of Gianni Infantino where he isn't the biggest cunt in it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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My one-two punch on “#sportswashing”: Two (!) new journal articles are now out, in which I critique the concept and call for more attention to the role played by media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The normative orientation of the debate precludes a better appreciation of the field and may even exacerbate the dynamics that the concept notionally seeks to curb. The article is out in Sport in Society: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743...
The normative trap of “sportswashing”: addressing the missing link between sports politics, journalism and media research
Recent conceptual critiques of the term “sportswashing” collectively challenge several features of its popular usage, which this article categorises into four themes. The perceptions of its (1) nov...
dx.doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The model could help us to better account for attributes of deceptive narratives, how they are disseminated through mediation of sports, and their effects. The article is out in International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, also in open access! dx.doi.org/10.1080/1940...
‘Sportswashing’ as mediated deceit: applying a critical disinformation model to address political (mis)communication through sports
The article highlights the need to decouple discussions about political (mis)communication and abuses of sport from the narrow conceptual preoccupation of ‘sportswashing’ with authoritarian decepti...
dx.doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The only threat to "fans coming from abroad" is the Trump administration and its masked ICE goons. When are national football associations going to stand up to Infantino's pro-Trump propaganda?

(Can't tag anyone here as all associations are still happily over on X, which tells you everything).
When a low-energy, slurring President Donald Trump threatens to move 2026 World Cup matches out of Seattle because of its "liberal-slash-communist mayor," FIFA President Gianni Infantino hems & haws, refusing call out his ridiculousness. Infantino has become Trump's sportswashing accomplice #1.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Infantino is in the Oval Office more often than JD Vance
When a low-energy, slurring President Donald Trump threatens to move 2026 World Cup matches out of Seattle because of its "liberal-slash-communist mayor," FIFA President Gianni Infantino hems & haws, refusing call out his ridiculousness. Infantino has become Trump's sportswashing accomplice #1.
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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When a low-energy, slurring President Donald Trump threatens to move 2026 World Cup matches out of Seattle because of its "liberal-slash-communist mayor," FIFA President Gianni Infantino hems & haws, refusing call out his ridiculousness. Infantino has become Trump's sportswashing accomplice #1.
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Spain 🇪🇸

Pep Guardiola backed this week’s Palestine-Catalonia friendly, saying the match shows global support for Palestinians. He criticised the international response, describing the killings in Gaza as massacres and expressing little faith in global leaders.
Pep Guardiola - 'The world has abandoned Palestine'
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has backed a game between Catalonia and Palestine, criticising the world's response to events in Gaza.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Bei nahezu jedem anderen Gastgeber würde bei dieser Gemengelage über den Entzug des Turniers diskutiert werden. Dass das jetzt nicht passiert, ist ein schlechtes Zeichen.

Willkommen bei Trumps WM. Und jetzt, DFB?

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Fußball-WM: Trumps Verhalten ist ein Problem für den DFB
Was Donald Trump tut, macht die Fußball-WM in den USA problematischer als viele frühere Turniere. Der DFB, der schon in Qatar große Probleme hatte, muss sich dringend überlegen, wie er dort auftritt.
www.faz.net
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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5/5

Trump on World Cup Host Country Mexico.

Thread.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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4/5

Trump on moving games away from host city Seattle..

Thread.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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3/5 Infantino looking very nervous as Trump & Noem talk about Venezuelan gangs…a reminder Venuzeula are a FIFA member…

Thread
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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2/5 Infantino thanking Trump and glad to be “At Home” at the White House…

Thread.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM