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Mbappe’s Cash Grab, Hendo’s Legacy, and Why the Saudi Pro League Is the Future of Elite Football

The Ripple Effect with James Lawrence Allcott

CHAPTER

The Globalization of Football

The FIFA Club World Cup is going to be massive, says Lodi Ant. It's a competition that kind of football fans have always said when they saw the World Cup: 'This would be pretty cool if our club teams did this' I think you'll get the narrative more over the course of international club games than in domestic ones like ours - but it feels like it's going that way. And again, you know, you're not truly independent in terms of what you want to do. That's incredibly sad for the game, because the borders don't matter anymore. If we can put 32 teams on one continent and then do the same thing in Europe and Australasia... Okay,

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