Alan Moore (sports administrator)

Moore lived until he was three years old on Dublin's South Circular Road before moving with his family to Corduff in North West Dublin. Growing up in a GAA household, he played for his local club St Brigid's GAA and later for Naomh Moninne H.C. in Dundalk, where he also coached children's teams. He later studied in University College Dublin. ==Academic career==

He is director of the International Office of National University of Science and Technology MISiS and is an associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, having previously been director of the RSSU Centre of International Relations and director of the Russian State Social University College from 2017 to 2020. In 2018 in Moscow, Moore participated in a panel discussion at an international forum on "Human Rights and Social Guarantees in the context of Challenges of the 21st Century: International and National Experience". He was also a representative in 2018 at the "International Forum in Kirov: Inclusive Education in Higher Education Institutions", and has moderated other university forums. ==Sports career==

Moore played a range of sports growing up including soccer for a number of local amateur clubs in Dublin. From 1996, he played semi-professionally in Europe, North America and Saudi Arabia. As a boxer, Moore featured for Maynooth University and University College Dublin. While there, he organised a rugby union exhibition game in March 2007 in which the Croatia national rugby union team played an Irish "touring barbarians" team. He has worked with a number of international sports people and teams, including Vitalia Diatchenko and Marta Sirotkina. He taught Gaelic football to members of the FC Lokomotiv Moscow youth team in 2016. Moore was development officer and director of Maltese Premier League Club Floriana F.C. from 2008 to 2010. In 2019, Moore was coach of the Russian Native Ladies Gaelic Football at the Renault GAA World Games. ==Journalism==

He is a sports journalist, and since 2017 has produced and hosted "Capital Sports" on Capital FM in Moscow. Former tennis player Ekaterina Bychkova co-hosted with Moore in 2017. His 2013 article, 'The Fear of the Known', discussed doping in tennis. Moore was quoted in articles in the Sydney Morning Herald and BuzzFeed in which he spoke about match-fixing in tennis. He and his work has also appeared on news sources and websites like Off the Ball, Sports Daily, RTÉ 2fm, and TRT World. In the buildup to the FIFA World Cup 2018, Moore decried Russia's lack of quality footballers and feared for their chances on Newstalk. He used his role as a guest of several "radio and TV shows dedicated to the World Cup" to promote the development of the education system at Russian State Social University (RSSU College). In the build up to the 2018 World Cup, he was part of a campaign to prepare visitors to Russia. His "Champ Talks" project was taken to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center and involved a discussion forum on topics related to sports, education and society. ==Controversy==

In September 2020, Moore published an article on backpagefootball.com in which he discussed the misuse of caffeine and other substances as performance-enhancing substances (PEDs). In the article, relying only on an unnamed "source close to the club", Moore claimed that 22 players out of 35 players on the Liverpool F.C. squad were asthmatic. Moore's claims went "viral" and the "wild Liverpool asthma inhaler conspiracy theory" was covered in several sources. The head of the Exercise Respiratory Clinic at the University of Kent, Professor John Dickinson, disputed the claims that inhaler misuse by a non-asthmatic footballer could lead to improved physical performance. Dickinson joined a BBC podcast titled "Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory" in August 2022. In the podcast, Dickinson and journalist Mike Wendling reviewed Moore's claims. Wendling discussed Moore's social media commentary, describing it as broadly pro-Kremlin and a source of unreliable misinformation. The claim of asthmatic and inhaler misuse by Liverpool F.C. was "debunk[ed]" as "spurious rumours" by the BBC podcast contributors. In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia bombed a children and maternity hospital in Mariupol resulting in at least three deaths, including a child. == References ==