The Rise of State-Sponsored Soccer Clubs

A Destructive Means to an End

Authors

  • Kennedy Onyechie University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/politika.8202

Keywords:

Soft power, State-Sponsored Investments, Soccer

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2023-08-15

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): Politika, the undergraduate journal of international affairs and politics

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