First and foremost, it is worth mentioning that #ManCity is part of City Football Group (CFG), established in 2013. From 2008-2015, CFG was wholly owned by ADUG, a private investment and development company belonging to Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. cityfootballgroup.com
Today, CFG is majority owned by Newton Investment and Development LLC, which is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and with a significant minority shareholding held by global technology investment firm, Sliver Lake (18.16%).cityfootballgroup.com
Here’s a thread about the club that has won five PL titles in six years - a state-owned project from #AbuDhabi and a club that's charged with 115 instances of rule breaches❗️ Might be worth for the media to tell today❓
🧵Has #Qatar2022 been a success for the State of Qatar🇶🇦? It might be too early to determine, but looking at the success of Qatar’s sports political strategy in the last 15 years might give some answers. Long thread! This article is by @MiguelDelaney 1/23 independent.co.uk/sport/football…
Shortly after🇶🇦was awarded the hosting rights of the 2022 World Cup, Qatar Foundation reached a five-year, £125m deal with the #Barcelona as shirt sponsor. The agreement marked the first time that Barca were to be paid to advertise on their jerseys. theguardian.com/football/2010/…
Qatar Foundation is a state-led organization, founded in 1995 by then-emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his second wife Moza bint Nasser.
#NEOM is a $500-billion mega-city and one of the Public Investment Fund’s most ambitious projects. NEOM is set to become “the future of sport” and “a top destination for major sporting events”. /2
The latest addition is the 2029 Asian Winter Games. Sport and the hosting of sporting mega events has a key role in the Kingdom's 'Vision 2030' and their pursuit of becoming the Middle East sports hub. It's about #NEOM /3
🧵To understand Qatar’s political use of sport, we have to widen our understanding of the mechanism they use. Here, we see the Aspire Academy Global Summit. One piece in their sports strategy and PR mechanism. 1/7
Aspire Academy was established by an Emiri Decree, No. 16 of 2004 as an independent government-funded agency that reported directly to the Emir. In 2008, Aspire Zone Foundation was established by Emiri decree to compromise 3 org.: Aspire Academy, Aspetar and Aspire Logistic. 2/7
Soon the whole world will experience the #Qatar2022 World Cup - a huge part of the very ambitious development plan 'Qatar National Vision 2030'. A central part of Qatar’s soft power strategy. 3/7 gco.gov.qa/en/about-qatar…
THREAD - THE OLYMPICS AND POLITICS
Every day during the Tokyo Olympics, I will in this Twitter thread post an example on the link between sports, politics and the Olympic Games. First example below👇
#1 - 🇨🇳
In 2008, the Chinese organisers used the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing for political self-promotion. The opening ceremony was for example used to signal ethnic integration in the world’s most populated country with more than 1.4 billion people>
Children in national costumes from the 56 different ethnic groups in China carried the national flag into the stadium before handing it to Chinese military personnel who oversaw the hoisting of the flag>