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- Congratulations to Aida Youth Centre and all who supported them. Brilliant campaigning that put Infantino and Ceferin under serious pressure. This is a symbolic victory amid a much wider tragedy that FIFA amd UEFA have done nothing to arrest. www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
- "FIFA can audit compliance with technical statutes but appears structurally incapable of – or uninterested in – confronting entrenched governance failures within member associations." Brilliant piece from @fidelisz.bsky.social for @playthegame-org.bsky.social www.playthegame.org/news/the-bro...
- If only there were some prominent figure ostensibly friendly with Trump, without political pressures, who could show diplomatic skill, and who has spoken about the uniting power of football… Greenland crisis exposed Infantino’s new sports diplomacy www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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- Arsenal’s biggest opposition is now themselves www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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- If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- According to people in Aida refugee camp this demolition could happen as soon as tomorrow. They wrote today to FIFA and the Swiss government urging them to call on Israel to desist from any demolition plans. The pitch is a lifeline for hundreds of Palestinian boys and girls.
- Gianni Infantino: “We will help rebuild all football facilities in Gaza and Palestine. We will bring football back in every corner of the country.” Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
- 🚨🚨🚨 Israel continues to destroy Palestinian football infrastructure unopposed by FIFA & UEFA. Please read and sign this important petition to help save the football pitch at the Aida refugee camp. More in 🧵 1/5. Read | Share 🙏 secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
- Gianni Infantino: “We will help rebuild all football facilities in Gaza and Palestine. We will bring football back in every corner of the country.” Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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- Gaza—the stadium of the soul by Bassim Helmi Hijazi (twenty years old) In "From Dust We Rise: New Poetry from Palestine", a collection of Palestinian poetry from @rrgould.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01...
- "America First" looks a lot like U.S. neoconservatism...
- From my favorite U.S. cartoonist @mluckovich.bsky.social (already weeks ago).
- Read the unsealed indictment against Maduro: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
- Wrote this in 2017 about the Russia 2018 World Cup and reposted it four years later about Qatar. In 2026, only the names have changed.* Ultimately, nothing makes a difference, but you'll at least know you weren't part of it. theuglygame.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/w...
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- My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
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