The Geopolitical Economy of Football: Where Power Meets Politics and Business

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
1. Introduction to the Geopolitical Economy of Football
PART I: Global Issues
	2. The Geopolitical Economy of Football: Dense Networks, Complex Decisions
	3. Will AI Turn the Football World Upside Down?
	4. Football Fans: Complacent Cheerleaders Representing Nation States?
	5. Image Laundering, Sport Washing and Greenwashing in and through Football
	6. Unpacking the Concept of Sportswashing in Elite Men’s Professional Football in England
	7. Athlete Activism in Global Football: Taking the Knee
	8. Environment, Climate Change, and Football
	9. How the Ukraine Conflict Affects Russian Football Clubs: The Hostages of Big Politics
	10. Embraced by Gazprom: Why is the Business Model of FC Zenit Unclear to Scholars of Sports Management?
PART II: Women’s Football
	11. Europe and Geopolitical Influences on Women’s Football Finance
	12. The Paradox of French Women’s Football
	13. Gender Pay Inequality in African Football: A Pale of Two Halves
	14. Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Class in Space: The Case of New Generation Stadiums in Turkey
PART III: Ownership and Investment
	15. Multi-Club Ownership: An Ominous Future
	16. Re-Conceptualising Multi-Club Ownership in Football: A New Definition and Typology of MCO
	17. The Development, Structure, and Operations of the City Football Group
	18. The Benign, Brilliant, and Beautiful Soft Power of Qatar’s Paris Saint-Germain
	19. Analyzing Unsuccessful Examples of Gulf Ownership and Investment in European Football
	20. Red Bull’s Investment in German Football: A Game Changer for the Bundesliga?
	21. Global Investment and Cultural Traditions
	22. An Overview of the UK Government’s Fan-Led Review of Football Governance
	23. The 3P-Model in Global Football: Creating Value by Combining Passion, Profit, and Politics on Multiple Levels
PART IV: The FIFA World Cup and Tournament Football
	24. Polycentric Football Tournaments
	25. A Geopolitical and Economic Analysis of China’s Bid for the FIFA World Cup: Going it Alone or Co-hosting
	26. FIFA World Cup 2026, Soccer’s North American Sporting Legacy
	27. The Nation Branding, Public Diplomacy and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: US against the World
	28. The Digital Symbolic Legacy of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup in Times of ‘Plague’ and War
	29. The FIFA World Cup Television Broadcasting in Africa Through Pay-TV: Shifting Flows
	30. Colombia’s Failure to Host the 1986 FIFA World Cup
PART V: Business, Society and Culture
	31. Football Consumption, Nostalgia, and Soft Power: Definitely Maybe!
	32. The Great Game of Football Diplomacy: Australia versus Wales
	33. Football, Geopolitics, and Digital Technologies: A Dynamic Nexus Shaping Global Dynamics
	34. The Supranational Competitive Promise of the Three Seas Initiative in Central Europe
	35. Football and Forced Migration: Sicily and the Central Mediterranean Route
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