▪️ Assists from right, not left ▪️ Impact from subs ▪️ Mead in 'second six-yard box' ENG have scored for fun at WEURO2022, breaking records along the way. LiamTharmeCoach looks at the tactical trends behind the Lionesses' incredible scoring record.
in Tel Aviv a year later, which prompted a big backlash from left-wing workers union groups in Uruguay. Argentina then withdrew from playing in Israel again in June, this time from a friendly against the national team due to be played in Haifa, following a letter from the Palestinian Al-Khader Football Club to the national team. Al-Khader player Mohammad Ghneim, 19, was killed by Israeli forces in April and the letter received widespread coverage.
“This is a football game, produced by a production company. No relation to politicians. Haifa is a city that’s a symbol of peace, with Arabs and Jews living side by side. There’s no problem there. Or Tel Aviv, or many Israeli cities. Jerusalem is different.” Returning to the idea of sportswashing, Dr Paul Widdop, a sports marketing academic from the University of Manchester, argues: “For Israel, there’s a soft power benefit to this — an element of promoting their brand through Spurs and through tourism in that area. That’s one of the reasons there’s a backlash to this, the suggestion that Spurs are being invited to be a proxy brand ambassador for Israel.
“Boycotts have been used throughout history and used now against Russia but with Israel that say, ‘No, don’t mix politics with sport’,” says a Palestinian member of the BDS movement, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. “So why not Israel? What’s the difference?”A couple of Spurs fans make similar points. “Taking your brand to a country where there are occupied territories and where there’s war, displaced people, where there’s suffering is a bad, bad look,” says one.
Others point to the death of footballer Saeed Odeh, who aged 16 was killed by Israeli occupation forces last year, and the existence of a Palestinian Amputee Football Association, made up of players who have lost limbs during the conflict with Israel. In March, though, Radiohead performed in Israel and lead singer Thom Yorke has reacted angrily to pressure to boycott Israel. “The person who knows most about these things is . He has both Palestinian and Israeli friends and a wife who’s an Arab Jew,” he said in 2017 before the band performed in Israel that year. “All these people to stand there at a distance throwing stuff at us, waving flags, saying, ‘You don’t know anything about it!’. Imagine how offensive that is for Jonny.
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