At an average match, Ariel City attracts fewer than 100 spectators at home in a West Bank settlement — yet they have been called one of Israel’s “most important” football clubs.
That’s because they, along with five other Israeli clubs, play their matches in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, considered occupied land by the international community.
The executive committee of world football’s governing body FIFA is due to meet on October 13 and decide whether to demand the Israel Football Association ban the small-time settlement clubs which play in its lower divisions.
Israel could even be suspended from international competition over the …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
