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February 25, 2012

Meet the Indonesian oligarch owner of Brisbane Roar. Back home, his name is mud

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They do things differently at the Football Federation of Australia, the peak administrator of soccer in Australia.

Where the clubs of the competing Australian Football League behemoth democratically boast that their millions of supporters and members are their owners, the FFA prefers what might be described as the oligarch-plaything model. The Global Mail reports on Aburizal Bakrie, the new owner of the Roar.

 



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