... host the FIFA World Cup, in 2022, Qatar also takes the opportunity to use information technology to promote its national image. Qatar is about 10 times Hong Kong’s size. It has a population of over 2 ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-27
Sepp Blatter’s claims that Qatar cheated in its pursuit of the right to host the 2022 World Cup ring hollow. After all, this was the man who was supposedly presiding over FIFA, world football’s govern ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-17
The 2018 FIFA World Cup ended last month, but the transformation of host Moscow is still going on. Information technology is continuing to revolutionize the city. Aside from reorganizing the streets a ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-13
... it at the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. And Özil did not get any support from German Football Federation (DFB) president Richard Grindel. “I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and exciteme ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-09
... uring the FIFA World Cup as Chinese football fans cheered for the Japanese. It’s been a tradition for Chinese fans to support European teams at international tournaments, but the absence of Italy and ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-06
... concluded FIFA World Cup and the upcoming Asian Games. Thanks to that, the government might be very thankful that it can shelve the idea of buying TV rights at least temporarily in order to avoid stir ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-06
... signed by FIFA as official regional supporters in Asia. Second, Chinese companies outspent both their US and Russian counterparts in terms of ad spending by a huge margin and became the largest advert ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-25
... the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia had the potential to wipe tens of billions of pounds off the London stock market. In an email interview with EJ Insight, Professor Alex Edmans shares his observation ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-23
Last month, FIFA, the world's governing body of football, awarded the right to host the 2026 World Cup to the United States, Canada and Mexico, whose joint bid defeated Morocco's. While the outcome it ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-23
... he lowest FIFA ranking among all the 32 teams. This, to some extent, also constituted some sort of an “expectation management” among the Russians. Nevertheless, as the host country, it would have been ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-20
... ia sucked FIFA into its geopolitical strategy. Sure, the 2018 World Cup was exciting; it helped the tournament ingratiate itself in the popular imagination; some of us even had our national teams perf ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-18
Vatti Corp., a leading vendor of kitchen appliances that sponsored France in the just-concluded FIFA World Cup, had promised to fully rebate customers who bought its products under the Champion Plan f ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-18
