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...Perhaps the key lesson from the Qatar experience is that all the bad press about human rights, worker safety and climate change do get drowned out once the football starts....
...Commercially, the tournament has delivered for Fifa and its 211 members....
...The betting company said revenues for 2022 were down 3 per cent at £1.85bn, despite receiving a bump from the men’s Fifa World Cup falling in the final quarter....
...Still, many international LGBT+ football fans, appalled by Qatar’s oppressive laws and fearful for their own safety, will simply boycott the tournament....
...On Saturday, soccer’s global governing body Fifa suspended Rubiales. [MUSIC PLAYING] You can read more on all of these stories at FT.com for free when you click the links in our show notes....
...Revenues fell 3 per cent to £1.85bn in the year to the end of December, despite being lifted by the Fifa World Cup in the final quarter....
...Fifa awarded hosting rights for the 2025 contest to the US on Friday. The ramifications for European football remain to be seen....
...Excitement is building for the Fifa Women’s World Cup, a month-long football extravaganza that starts on July 20....
...Qatar, prosecutors believe, used Panzeri and his network to improve its image in Brussels ahead of the Fifa World Cup. But the 67-year-old Italian was not new to the game....
...During a recent game of Fifa, Richarlison found himself on the wrong end of the scoreline. Tottenham teammates Lucas Moura and Emerson Royal decided to give him a taste of his own medicine....
...in a two-day state visit to the neighbouring EU nation Russia, president Vladimir Putin is due to address the plenary session of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Rwanda, the 73rd Fifa...
...EA and Fifa blow final whistle on soccer partnershipElectronic Arts is ending a 30-year partnership with Fifa, calling time on one of the most popular games partnerships in history after months of negotiations...
...There is a game mode and U7H is the official TV of the Qatar FIFA World Cup. Hisense’s new flagship model is the catchily named U8HQ....
...“Nobody could help because nobody could guarantee safety. They said they should stay there.” “It’s hard for me even to explain how tough, hard and sad those conversations were....
...Havel believed that the vast majority of people are not content to be forever walled within a prison of falsehood, where the price of material security and domestic safety is the unconditional surrender...
...Qatar was seeking a resolution of the dispute in time for the Fifa World Cup which starts in November, added people close to the situation....
...But he warned: “There is a problem of accidents and health and safety for these workers and working conditions.”...
...Between my week-and-a-half bingeing on British television while stuck in London health and safety protocols, and a particularly tumultuous period for English football, the sporting theme of the month so...
...Shares in Electronic Arts, whose titles include the Fifa and Madden sports franchises, rose more than 5 per cent, while Ubisoft, maker of Assassin’s Creed, rose 8 per cent. Do you back Nadella’s bet?...
...The event will be held virtually on day one with optional live talks and events at London’s South Place Hotel on day two (in line with Covid safety guidelines)....
...Highlights Broadcast rights account for just 6 per cent of club revenues in women’s football, according to a report by Fifa, the world governing body for the sport, which earmarked the category as instrumental...
...Social media companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram, are facing new curbs from the UK government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill to tackle internet abuse....
...On Tuesday Michel D’Hooghe, medical committee chair at Fifa, international football’s governing body, said he was “sceptical” that competitive football could safely resume play for many more weeks....
...Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Uber releases its first-ever safety report and Nancy Pelosi, instructs fellow Democrats to draw up articles of impeachment against Donald Trump....
...At a time when lawmakers are reviewing college sports’ governance, will its move be perceived as a money grab over public safety?...
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