🎙️Have you subscribed to the Play the Game Podcast yet? Listen to stories and conversations about FIFA, Qatar 2022, betting, Trump and sport, World Cup impacts, online gambling, and why sport needs independent oversight. 🎧 Subscribe here 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

Play the Game calls for a permanent independent oversight to protect the sports we love 📢 Opinion piece by @staniselsborg.bsky.social & @jenssejer.bsky.social Listen👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm Read👉 www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-s-...

A group of girls in the Indian Sundarbans took up football – defying the stigma around showing their legs in public⚽️ Now the cyclones are taking it back, flood by flood. Climate change hits grassroots sport first. Ritwika Mitra reports 👇 www.playthegame.org/news/on-a-sh...

In our episode on Infantino’s first ten years at FIFA, Miguel Maduro explains why FIFA reform is so difficult: A political cartel with concentrated power. Too little independent scrutiny. And a system that can't truly reform itself from within. 🎧https://play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm/

🎙️ Have you listened to the Play the Game Podcast yet? The idea is simple: to give space and a longer life to the voices, stories, and debates about the people, powers, and politics shaping sport. These are the episodes we have published👇 Subsribe👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️New Play the Game Podcast episode Investigative journalist Lindsey Kennedy exposes the dark side of online sports betting in Southeast Asia. Scams, forced labour, human trafficking, organised crime, and links to football sponsorships! 🎧Listen👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ New Play the Game Podcast episode! Ten years after Gianni Infantino promised a “new FIFA”, what kind of FIFA has he actually built? @staniselsborg.bsky.social looks back at Infantino's FIFA - a story about power, politics, and so-called ethics. 🎧 Listen here👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ New Play the Game Podcast episode! Investigative journalist @karimzidan.com joins @staniselsborg.bsky.social to discuss how sport became part of Donald Trump’s political machine - from boxing, WWE, golf and UFC to FIFA, Infantino and the 2026 World Cup. 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ The Play the Game Podcast is already travelling further than we had imagined just two weeks in! Since launching, we have had listeners from 40 countries 🌍🙏🏼 More episodes are on the way☝🏼 www.playthegame.org/podcast/?utm...

Illegal betting and match-fixing are escalating in Mexican football. These activities serve as conduits for money laundering, enabled by weak regulation and a legal framework that has yet to criminalise match manipulation in Mexico Read the full investigation👇 www.playthegame.org/news/the-dea...

🔎 A Deutsche Welle investigation into the disappearance of Belarusian sports activist Anatol Kotau renews focus on repression of the country's athletes. In a comment, Jens Sejer Andersen asks: did the IOC consider this before lifting restrictions on Belarus? 👇 www.playthegame.org/news/news-ab...

Who holds sport to account❓🤔 Today, we launch the Play the Game Journalism Fund – a new initiative to support independent journalism that investigates power, governance, integrity, and accountability in international sport✍🏼 Read more👉🏼 www.playthegame.org/news/play-th...

🎙️ New Play the Game Podcast episode! Monika Streule takes us to Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara, where World Cup projects collide with struggles over water, land, housing, and the environment. 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ “FIFA and Qatar tried to break me” In the opening episode of the Play the Game Podcast, Qatar 2022 whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais speaks about prison, pressure, media control, FIFA, migrant workers, and the global politics behind Qatar 2022. 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ First week of the Play the Game Podcast - and three episodes are now out. Listen👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ New episode of the Play the Game Podcast! Jules Boykoff on sportswashing, the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Donald Trump, and the 2028 Olympics. 🎧 Listen now 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎧New episode about: ⚽ FIFA’s growing ties to betting and prediction markets 🌍 Offshore betting and weak regulation 💻 FIFA+ used on betting websites 🚨 Match-fixing concerns in low-level football 🏆 Integrity risks ahead of the 2026 World Cup 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

🎙️ New Play the Game Podcast episode: Qatar 2022 whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais speaks about the latest developments in his case — and how Qatar’s World Cup media strategy profiled journalists and managed criticism. “Silence is sport’s worst enemy.” 👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm

Suspicious betting activity on youth competitions has risen sharply in recent years! Corentin Segalen and Samuel Wahlberg argue that betting on under-18 sport must be banned worldwide - and that operators, data providers, and regulators must be held accountable. www.playthegame.org/news/stop-be...

🔎What happens when forensic evidence is gathered, criminal charges are filed, and the money trail is documented? In South African football, exposure has not translated into accountability. Read the full investigation into SAFA by Fidelis Zvomuya👇 www.playthegame.org/news/the-hol...

What happens when global spectacle meets local vulnerability? As Vancouver prepares for the 2026 World Cup, advocates warn that FIFA’s human rights plans risk reinforcing displacement pressures on unhoused residents in the Downtown Eastside. 👉 www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-s-...

🔎New investigation: The enablers In an investigation for Play the Game, @philippeauclair.bsky.social traces how illegal betting operators rely on a global network to operate, expand and reach customers 🌏 Read the investigation series 👇 www.playthegame.org/news/how-wes...

Infantino promised a ‘new FIFA’ built on reform and transparency. A decade later, we instead see weakened scrutiny and an increasing alignment with state power at the highest levels. @staniselsborg.bsky.social examines Infantino’s first decade as FIFA president👇 www.playthegame.org/news/infanti...

🔎New investigation reveals that gambling operators linked to pornographic content access live data from women’s cricket. It also exposes risks of match-fixing, harassment of players, and the spread of betting markets into unofficial competitions👇 www.playthegame.org/news/from-po...

As international sports bodies move to reintegrate Russia, they once again stress the “neutrality” of sport. @staniselsborg.bsky.social argues that this language obscures what has really been achieved by excluding Russia from the international sport’s scene 👇 www.playthegame.org/news/excludi...

The media’s simplistic framing "boycott – yes or no?" overlooks that the real story lies elsewhere – in power, governance, and accountability in international sport, argues @staniselsborg.bsky.social ⚠️ Read the commentary👇 www.playthegame.org/news/sports-...

In East India, a non-profit has used football to change the lives of hundreds of girls⚽ Drawn into the project by the opportunity to play football, the girls are given a proper education and valuable life skills, Ankita Anand reports👇 www.playthegame.org/news/footbal...

🔎When the Philippines hosted the 2025 FIVB Men’s World Championship, the event relied largely on public funding, writes Eric Dimzon Almost 2 billion pesos ($33.5m) were released by the Philippine Sports Commission to the National Volleyball Federation👇 www.playthegame.org/news/the-hid...

As South African football struggles with unpaid players and collapsing development structures, this investigation explains the financial and governance failures that have led SAFA president Danny Jordaan to face a criminal trial 👇 www.playthegame.org/news/the-bro...

New year – new opportunities? ✨ We are looking for an editor and international relations manager to strengthen our journalism, expand our global network, and help shape the agenda in international sports politics 👇 www.playthegame.org/news/play-th...