New Delhi, India -- In a way, I agree that football is the great globalizer, and also the destroyer of nationalism -- though the World Cup month is the wrong time to say so. In more normal times, during the intervening four years, the multinational clubs arouse greater passions than the encounters between two nations.
FIFA replacing the UN? An interesting thought. But what happens then to nations that may be equally crazy for the game and yet have a low ranking. India, for example, has a FIFA world ranking much lower than its ranking on the Human Development Index, which is steadily improving even as India keeps moving lower on the football ladder.
What will decide who sits on the high table in the new Security Council? The arrangement will likely be particularly unfair to cricket-playing British Commonwealth nations whose footballers, if you leave aside England, have never done too much internationally (notwithstanding the initial exploits of Australia and Trinidad and Tobago this year). Maybe we'd need a separate Security Council seat for the cricketing world.
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