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By prioritizing football, China may have found a weakness in American soft power that it can exploit
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The story started with a swoop worthy of Eliot Ness, the heroic investigator who took down Al Capone.
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India and China are not rising superpowers. On Planet Football, they hardly exist at all. Instead of BRICs, we have the BICCs: Belgium, Ivory Coast, Chile and Columbia.
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Serious sport, according to George Orwell, is war minus the shooting. In the words of Bill Shankly, legendary manager of Liverpool F.C., football is not a matter of life and death; it’s much more important than that.