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Kenya and Zimbabwe have been suspended from world football: what happens next

Kenya and Zimbabwe have been suspended from world football: what happens next

KENYA and Zimbabwe have both been suspended by the world’s football governing body, FIFA, owing to government interference in the operations of the national football federations. Nairobi and Harare dissolved their federations late last year and replaced them with government-appointed officials. The suspension, overshadowed for now by Russia’s dramatic banishment from virtually all international sport, will hit the two countries in the pocket and freeze international participation. Sports researcher Wycliffe Njororai Simiyu explains why this is straight from FIFA’s aggressive policy against what it terms “third-party interference”. Author WYCLIFFE W. NJORORAI SIMIYU, Professor, Health and Kinesiology, University of Texas at…
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