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Argentina may be the last Latin American team standing in the World Cup, but don't expect many fans in Mexico to be cheering for La Albiceleste — the lads sporting the classic white and blue stripes. Deeper cultural resentments are also a factor.

The path to the World Cup is accessible to only a narrow slice of American soccer players.

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The 2026 World Cup has become a rebuke to Trump’s homogeneous vision of America, revealing a tournament – and a US team – shaped by migration and diversity. Soccer, when politics and cultural posturing are set aside, can indeed be the great unifier

Haiti at the World Cup is more than an underdog tale – it is the story of global migration. It also illustrates the different kinds of opportunities young athletes have in different countries.

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FIFA has always loved dictatorships. Italy was chosen in 1934 because fascism would ensure discipline. When the Soviet Union refused to play a 1973 match in Pinochet’s Chile (because the pitch was a concentration camp), FIFA disqualified the USSR.