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And so it begins … EPA June 7, 2016 Euro 2016: how UEFA found the formula for its toughest tournament yet Nicolas Scelles, University of Stirling France are favourites, Albania are playing and there are more teams than ever before. Your essential guide to Europe’s summer football festival.
American justice at work. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters June 1, 2015 What the FIFA scandal really tells us – about the US Simon Reich, Rutgers University - Newark I have lived in the US for over three decades. And I have never seen soccer – that is, real “football” – dominate the front pages of US newspapers for so many days and with so many stories. In that sense…