Akash Bhattacharya is a Ph.D scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also a Delhi based activist with the leftist youth organization Krantikari Naujawan Sabha.
International football has been drastically reworked by global capital over the last three decades into a site of immense inequity. The hypocrisies of the recent World Cup urge us to see how the space of football, led by the forces of capital, is now ripe for insurrection.