Source: ESPN
Soccer is becoming political arena as Infantino, FIFA court outside money
UEFA president and FIFA vice-president Aleksander Ceferin speaks exclusively with ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti about FIFA's recent proposal of a Global Nations League.
Taylor Twellman explains how Major League Soccer could benefit from the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the federal anti-sports gambling law.
Sport has always played a proxy role in politics or conflict. Since its earliest martial origins in ancient Greece, through the Cold War boycotts of Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, to the state-sponsored training programmes that continue to this day, the Olympic Games have always felt like a peacock contest between nations as much as between athletes.
Soccer has by and large tended to avoid that narrative. Until now. As it has outgrown Olympic sport in terms of its global popularity to become......read full article
