Franklin Foer May Be Getting More Material for his writings about how soccer/football explains the world. Soccer is a sport where two teams try to pass a ball without using their hands only via kicking and chest and head bumps into the opposing team's goal.

Sports like other aspects of culture like art and music frequently are not independent of the socio political culture in which they occur. Other famous athletes have used the sports platform for social commentary against repressive political regimes like Jesse Owens and John Carlos.

In analyzing the Argentina soccer match cancellation, BBC reports Avigdor Lieberman, presumably Israeli Defense bureacrat to assert:

"We will not yield before a pack of anti-Semitic terrorist supporters,"

The bureaucrat's quote above highlights the nonsense zionists use to try to conflate anti zionism/ with anti semitism. This kind of nonsense language like that from the bureaucrat highlights how tyrants try to manipulate language to help subsidize their cruel despicable policies. Apparently Bibi, someone who seems to just be a monster who asserts he has been forced to murder his neighbor's children seemingly rejecting his own free will in the situation, apparently tried to call the Argentinians and cajole them into continuing the game. Tyrants usually like having circus parades that help mask the real issue of the time while occupying the attention spans of the sheeply. Gotta wonder how precision sniping recently killed journalists?

Source

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44378669
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/06/football/israel-argentina-soccer-match-intl/index.html