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Chapter Nineteen: Gulf Autocrats and Sports Corruption: A Marriage Made in Heaven

    Lecture at the University of Lausanne, 21 September 2016.

      https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814689779_0019Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
      Abstract:

      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…