This episode feels symbolic of a World Cup where the global game has been sacrificed to Fifa’s cynical money-making – and Trumpian whim
World Cup tickets cost up to $11.5 million — you could get into the last WC for $11.
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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.
Consider the fact that so many of the people heaping invective on this U.S. team are doing so while trumpeting the need to “protect women’s sports” – something that has never been about reducing harm for athletes or calling for increased investment
We were not born to suffer, neither Argentines, nor French, nor any other human being on this earth. We were born precisely for the opposite, to free ourselves increasingly from all pain and suffering by humanising the world, which should be the central goal of our existence.
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Possibly the greatest player of all-time, Pelé, burst on to the scene with dazzling play at 17 and led his Brazilian team to three World Cups.
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