saudi arabia, in its vision for modernization introduced the nation to a number of international sporting events, bringing sports stars to the kingdom. however, in august 2019, the kingdom's strategy received criticism for appearing as a method of sportswashing soon after saudi's us based 2018 lobbying campaign foreign registration documentations got published online. the documents showed saudi arabia as allegedly implementing a ‘sportswashing’ strategy, inclusive of meetings and official calls with supreme authorities of associations like the major league soccer (mls), world wrestling entertainment (wwe), national basketball association (nba). the strategy is being viewed as a method of sportswashing following the chaos spread across yemen since 4 years.