Not content with reinventing and restructuring the World Bank, its boss, Jim Wolfensohn, now wants to turn it into a soccer team.

ECONOMIST: Kick and tell

He is actually a naturalised American, who was born in Zambia, and there lies his undoing: the Europeans think the job is theirs by right, and another naturalised American already heads the World Bank, the Australian-born Jim Wolfensohn.

ECONOMIST: The right boss for the Fund

Jim Wolfensohn was a second-year student at the University of Sydney when a friend of his and the captain of the fencing team, Rupert Bligh, asked if he wanted to go to Melbourne the next day to fence in the national university championships.

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