Chapter Nineteen: Gulf Autocrats and Sports Corruption: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Lecture at the University of Lausanne, 21 September 2016.
The story of the genesis of my writing about the politics of soccer in the Middle East and North Africa that I would like to tell you is that I first saw everything I write about 30 years ago when I accompanied the Mexican national soccer team on the eve of the 1986 World Cup on its first ever visit to the region…