As Robbie takes up role at Hungarian club Ferencvaros, his wife continues to hit back at the party’s criticism of him, saying it put her family at risk
Claudine and Robbie Keane. Photo: Getty
When he took up a job with Israel’s oldest and most decorated team, Ireland legend Robbie Keane became the very reluctant star of a high-stakes game of political football.
Despite the at-times naive attempts by Keane to keep the war in the Middle East and criticism of Israel distinct from his managerial career, a heated dispute between his wife Claudine and Sinn Féin made his tenure with Maccabi Tel Aviv a microcosm for an international debate about the rights and wrongs of keeping sport separate from politics and war.