Following its shocking 2-0 defeat to Ethiopia in the qualifiers for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, emotions ran high as fans and political officials could not help but draw connections between the team’s performance on the pitch and Egypt’s ongoing feud with Ethiopia over its construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Egyptians consider an existential threat to the country’s access to Nile waters. In a far less reported story, in late May the Argentine national football team cancelled a scheduled friendly match against Israel, responding to calls to pull out of the match by the Palestinian Al-Khader Football Club, whose 19-year-old player Mohammad Ali Ghoneim was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in April.Įlsewhere in recent weeks, the Egyptian national football team found itself at the heart of a major regional crisis. These stories showcase the ubiquitous place that football has come to hold in the Middle East and, in turn, the region’s impact on football globally PSG, which is owned by the state-funded Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), made the 23-year-old Mbappe the highest-paid footballer in the world, and even reportedly gave him a $125m signing bonus, a virtually unheard of fee for a team retaining its own player.

The headline story in world football this summer concerned young French phenomenon Kylian Mbappe's decision to sign a three-year contract extension with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the expense of pursuing his lifelong dream move to Spanish giants Real Madrid.

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