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Stanis Elsborg

@StanisElsborg

Head of Play the Game • @playthegame_org • [email protected]

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  1. Stanis Elsborg@StanisElsborg
    🎥 Missed Play the Game 2025? You can now watch sessions on demand - from whistleblowing, governance to athlete rights, geopolitics and inclusion of transgender athletes in sport. 🔗 Watch here👉 @playthegame_org
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    🎙️“FIFA and Qatar tried to break me" That line from Qatar 2022 whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais has stayed with me! In this episode, we talk about prison, pressure, media control, migrant workers, Qatar, and FIFA. 👉
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    Funny to talk about IOC and FIFA feeling others are "impossible to manage with their demands". I remember this one... 😅
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    Once again McDonald's desperately spinning their exit from a long time sports partnership - fearing that the real reason may become apparant. In Olympics it was IOC that dropped McD because the company had become impossible to manage with their demands- never mind the optics of the health issues. Wonder if FIFA faced same challenges & felt it was better without McD.
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    Once again McDonald's desperately spinning their exit from a long time sports partnership - fearing that the real reason may become apparant. In Olympics it was IOC that dropped McD because the company had become impossible to manage with their demands- never mind the optics of the health issues. Wonder if FIFA faced same challenges & felt it was better without McD.
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    RT @StanisElsborg: “Maybe we should just stop asking questions. I don’t think so.” That persistence is why I wanted to revisit @sportingintel’s work on #ManCity in our podcast. 🎧 Link in comments👇
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    RT @sportingintel: Weekend No750 of waking up to Man City fans hurling abuse, often mild like this from @realchriswood, who doesn’t follow me, never reads my work, but has decided journalism is rage bait because … his football team. Have a lovely Sunday, Chris.
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    @StanisElsborg @sportingintel You again. Abuse is not great especially personal ones. I read his articles and wonder why he calls himself a journalist. Not proper or excellent it’s poor, driven by obsession and full of bias, he uses rage for clicks, not sure why you reward him? Maybe you can buy your awards?
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    @StanisElsborg @sportingintel You again. Abuse is not great especially personal ones. I read his articles and wonder why he calls himself a journalist. Not proper or excellent it’s poor, driven by obsession and full of bias, he uses rage for clicks, not sure why you reward him? Maybe you can buy your awards?
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    Watching the abuse @sportingintel has faced for his reporting on #ManCity - then and now - has been appalling. In ‘24, we honoured him with the Play the Game Award for his “proper, excellent and bulletproof journalism.” He has never backed down. Sadly, neither have the abusers.
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    1/6 🏎️ Formula 1 is coming to Rwanda. A landmark 10-year agreement will bring the African Grand Prix to Rwanda, with Visit Rwanda as presenting partner. But behind the announcement lies a much bigger story about sport, image, power, and politics. 🧵
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    Greg Davies @the_gregdavies
    I’ll stick my neck out and say this F1 race in Rwanda will never happen. The economics simply don’t add up. A country struggling to fund basic healthcare and education has far more pressing priorities than hosting a billionaires’ motorsport spectacle.
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    I’ll stick my neck out and say this F1 race in Rwanda will never happen. The economics simply don’t add up. A country struggling to fund basic healthcare and education has far more pressing priorities than hosting a billionaires’ motorsport spectacle.
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    Human Rights Watch @hrw
    Formula One’s decision this week to bring a Grand Prix to Rwanda in the early 2030s could be an important moment for Africa. But the 10-year agreement between @F1 and Rwanda also brings significant human rights risks.
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    Formula One’s decision this week to bring a Grand Prix to Rwanda in the early 2030s could be an important moment for Africa. But the 10-year agreement between @F1 and Rwanda also brings significant human rights risks.
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    RT @JosimarFotball: Following the Josh Wander news, we have lifted the paywall on some of our 777 Partners stories for you to enjoy. Kudos to @pbsportswriter and Philippe Auclair for reporting this story out. First up.
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    There are multiple voices in the media landscape who are getting paid - in cash or kind - to paint #ManCity in a good light, or as still innocent. Who, and why? @sportingintel at your service 👇Excellent piece.
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    RT @sportingintel: Below is a speech I gave in 2022, at the Play The Game conference in Denmark, about years of covering City's cheating and their "no comment" stance. Fast forward to 13 mins of this video for the start of the speech. 2/2
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    RT @GeoffArsenal: This whole recording is incredibly interesting. Nick’s part back then is a blockbuster and the other stuff about the Asian betting groups is mind blowing. Don’t miss it. Brilliant work Nick, thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
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    Below is a speech I gave in 2022, at the Play The Game conference in Denmark, about years of covering City's cheating and their "no comment" stance. Fast forward to 13 mins of this video for the start of the speech. 2/2
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    RT @bergersus: ”Thousands of people from around the world are lured by fake job offers and end up trapped in compounds where online gambling and scam operations thrive.”
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    @GeoffArsenal Thanks for sharing. If you are more interested in the betting part, try to listen to this podcast with Lindsey Kennedy. Scams, slavery and surface-to-air missiles – Online sports betting in Southeast Asia
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    @GeoffArsenal Thanks for sharing. If you are more interested in the betting part, try to listen to this podcast with Lindsey Kennedy. Scams, slavery and surface-to-air missiles – Online sports betting in Southeast Asia
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    RT @SophiaCai99: The FIFA Council meeting in Zurich tomorrow will be a crucial test for Gianni Infantino as he faces his biggest critics in person for 1st time since FFE plan blew up - The meeting will begin w/ remarks by Infantino & routine business, including a victory lap on the 2026 World Cup, before turning to the thorny issues… - Trump FIFA Peace Prize, the failed FFE proposal and FIFA’s disciplinary procedures (Bolugan red card) - all decisions made without input from FIFA Council - “He’s got to come out of this calming the waters — he’s not gonna calm everybody, but he absolutely has to settle some of his bigger critics right now,” one person in global soccer told me. “Because if he falls or trips, I think it’ll really be a setback for him.” - There is a Nov. 18 deadline for challengers to declare their intention to run against Infantino. - Meanwhile, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi’s European Football Clubs is looking to expand its influence into a global organization for clubs, provisionally called World Football Clubs. Would be counterweight to FIFA - Al-Khelaïfi has been seen as a promising candidate for FIFA’s presidency, but he has said he is not interested. - Infantino’s latest play to shore up support among developing countries: a proposed $3.4 billion increase in development funding for member associations - And he’s continued a campaign of personal diplomacy, including trips to Colombia for the inauguration of President Abelardo de la Espriellaand to the a U-14 tournament in the Dominican Republic in August, which made for an awkward encounter with Victor Montagliani
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    RT @StanisElsborg: Three warm-ups for tonight’s clash between City and #PSG First, a new episode of the Play the Game Podcast with investigative journalist @sportingintel on the money behind #ManCity’s success. 1/3 🎧
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    Second, a closer look at PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and his role in Qatar’s grip on world football. 2/3 👉
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    Third, Jeppe Laursen Brock’s fascinating portrait of the man behind the biggest leak in sports history. Thanks for sharing, @jlbrocken! 3/3 👉
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