Playing by FIFA’s Rules

July 7, 2010

Armin Wertz
Journalist, author of Sie sind viele, sie sind eins (2009), a history of Indonesia.

CAPE Town had two good stadiums where World Cup games could have been played, one in Newlands, the other one in Athlone. The city fathers had planned to renovate and expand the stadiums according to the requirements of a World Cup. But FIFA insisted that World Cup semifinals can’t be held in stadiums with fewer than 65,000 seats and it wasn’t pos

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