{"585956":{"#nid":"585956","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How FIFA\u0027s World Cup Expansion May Make the Games More Global Than Ever","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKirk Bowman, associate chair and Jon Wilcox Term Professor of Soccer and\u0026nbsp;Global Politics in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in \u0026ldquo;How FIFA\u0026#39;s World Cup Expansion May Make the Games More Global Than Ever\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Christian Science Monitor.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe disparity carries the\u0026nbsp;geopolitical overtones of that earlier period, particularly in Africa, where nations were just starting to emerge from under European colonialism. But FIFA\u0026rsquo;s latest vote illuminates how the council\u0026rsquo;s internal politics, combined with the organization\u0026rsquo;s profit motive, may be destined to push the biggest tournament of the \u0026ldquo;universal game\u0026rdquo; toward greater inclusivity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The continent that really benefits, and has really suffered the most from the Europeans, is Africa,\u0026rdquo; says Kirk Bowman, a professor in soccer and global politics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/The-Culture\/2017\/0111\/How-FIFA-s-World-Cup-expansion-may-make-the-games-more-global-than-ever\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-01-12 19:34:28","changed_gmt":"2017-01-12 19:34:28","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"recycling event","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/The-Culture\/2017\/0111\/How-FIFA-s-World-Cup-expansion-may-make-the-games-more-global-than-ever","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"585955":{"id":"585955","type":"image","title":"Kirk Bowman","body":null,"created":"1484249658","gmt_created":"2017-01-12 19:34:18","changed":"1484249658","gmt_changed":"2017-01-12 19:34:18","alt":"Kirk Bowman","file":{"fid":"223338","name":"KirkBowmanWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KirkBowmanWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KirkBowmanWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36256,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KirkBowmanWeb.jpg?itok=PNPWHnGQ"}}},"media_ids":["585955"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}