In late May–early June, the “world championship” of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) took place in the breakaway Georgian territory of Abkhazia. Twelve soccer teams from internationally unrecognized territories participated. CONIFA is a federation of football associations that was established in 2013 (Sputnik-abkhazia.ru, May 28) and is made up of teams representing nations, dependencies, unrecognized states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions. CONIFA claims it does not “judge if our members deserve political independence. We want to put them all on the world map by showing their members and people to the world and give them the chance to …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation