How War in Ukraine Shifts Football’s Economy

Takeline

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Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tariq Panja of the New York Times joins Takeline to talk about how war in Ukraine is affecting British football economy, most notably Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's stake in Chelsea. And Kristian Winfield of The New York Daily News helps break down how New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ recent comments on vaccine mandates in the city might affect Kyrie Irving’s availability. Subscribe at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline

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0:00.0	Welcome to Take Line. I am Jason DeSeption. It's wonderful to be back with you. I wish it was
0:19.2	under circumstances in which there were less things happening in the world. Currently, we are on
0:26.3	today. I want to say six of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the COVID rules continue to be in
0:35.1	flux in New York City. And, you know, the leader of a nuclear nation is very casually threatening
0:43.0	a nuclear war. It's very, very chill here today, but we have a great show, no Renee today, but today
0:48.6	we're going to talk to Christian Winfield of the New York Daily News about New York City mayor,
0:53.0	Eric Adams, recent comments on changes to the vaccine mandates in the city, and how that might
0:58.5	affect one person out of the eight million people that live and work in New York City, Kyrie Irving,
1:05.5	the point guard for the Brooklyn Nets Creek Pong of the New York Times, an author and a great reporter
1:12.6	who studies the intersection of economics and football. That is the European definition of the
1:19.9	word football meeting soccer. We'll join us to talk about how the conflict in Ukraine is
1:25.0	causing chaos, not just in the economy, but also the sports economy. In particular,
1:30.3	the plate of Roman Abramovich who has attempted to hide Chelsea football club like in the garage.
1:36.4	So Boris Johnson can't steal it. Fun show for you today. Let's get started.
1:42.2	Joining us now is Tariq Ponja, sports reporter with the New York Times and author of football's secret
1:52.9	trade, how the player transfer market was infiltrated. It's here to help us try to make sense of some
1:58.5	of the fallout of the conflict in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia on the sports world,
2:05.0	in particular, the football slash soccer world. Roman Abramovich over the weekend gave stewardship
2:14.3	of his football club, Chelsea football club to its charitable arm, which is akin to hiding a hot
2:23.2	handgun in someone's garage, I think. But hopefully Tariq can help us make sense of all this.
2:29.6	Tariq, thank you for joining us. Good to be with you. So Roman Abramovich, the Russian
2:34.7	Israeli Oleg Ark billionaire owner of Chelsea football club gas aluminum and oil magnate has handed
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