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Professor Simon Chadwick
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Professor Simon Chadwick
@Prof_Chadwick
Professor of Afro-Eurasian Sport.
GeoSport Substack substack.com/@geosport200
Paris
Joined February 2009
- The secret's out, Asian football clubs are among the best in the world FIFA's Club World Cup is highlighting how strong football across the continent has become, even if attitudes towards it elsewhere are lagging behind substack.com/home/post/p-16… @Fire_and_Skill #Geosport
- China just announced that from tomorrow, CCTV will cease showing Premier League matches (seemingly in response to growing tensions between Beijing and London/Washington)
- An advertisement on behalf of business schools & universities everywhere.... This person has a degree in Economics & an MBA
- RIA Coming to a football shirt sponsorship deal soon... Exclusive: Saudi Arabia to launch new airline ‘RIA’ with $30bn war chest to rival Emirates
- Here come the UEFA Euros... Supported by Chinese brands Alipay, AliExpress, Hisense, Byd, and Vivo - symbolic of this age and of sport's geopolitical economy For example: Ali Beijing office sets up a Chinese Communist Party committee globaltimes.cn/page/202103/12…
- 1/3 The complexity of this photograph is mind-boggling - you could write a book about it. For instance, Adidas: German registered company, HQ located in Germany, operating globally, with multiple retail outlets in Qatar, also hugely active in countries such as China...
- middleeastmonitor.com/20200724-contr… After initially being sceptical, KSA's dogged pursuit of this matter suggests acquisition will go ahead. Next issues are timing & consequences of decision. Otherwise, transfer market faces prospect of cash rich Saudis gate crashing. Other clubs be aware.
- Euro football has been sleepwalking into the eye of a geopolitical storm for years. Ironic that Chelsea & UEFA have deals with Russian state owned gas corporation. And that English FA Cup & several clubs sponsored by a Gulf state airline. Yet only now such matters are an issue...🚨PL vote for 3-week block on sponsorship deals from “related parties” (ie linked to owners) 🚨Aimed at #NUFC 🚨18 clubs voted in favour, #nufc against & #mcfc abstained: both argued unlawful 🚨#mcfc legal advice says it would see PL acting as a cartel theathletic.com/news/newcastle…
- Replying to @Prof_ChadwickThe secret's out, Asian football clubs are among the best in the world FIFA's Club World Cup is highlighting how strong football across the continent has become, even if attitudes towards it elsewhere are lagging behind substack.com/home/post/p-16…
- Is Olympique Marseille the next football club that Saudi Arabia's PIF will acquire?
- Saudi Arabia to buy Olympique de Marseille In the world of weirdness in which I have lived since NUFC/KSA story first broke in January, it isn't the first time this Marseille rumour has drifted across my radar. Someone recently explained the logic of it to me. If true....
- Integrated value creation... Jorge Mendes client Jose Mourinho becomes coach at Roma, replacing Jorge Mendes client Jose Fonseca. In turn, Jorge Mendes client Nuno Espirito Santo replaces Mourinho at Spurs, being replaced at Wolves by Jorge Mendes client Bruno Lage...
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