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Soccer diplomacy

From the BBC, a match to watch:

Fifa say that Sudan’s 2010 World Cup qualifier against Chad will go ahead as scheduled on 31 May.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir broke off diplomatic relations with Chad after an attack on Khartoum at the weekend.

He blames Chad for backing the rebel group from Darfur which carried out the attack.

2 Responses

  1. Usually only neighbouring countries are strained in such fashion. FIFA should set the rule that neighbouring countries should not be included in the same qualification group. Hm?

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