I was tense. Not mildly interested. Not casually curious. Genuinely tense. As the World Cup Final entered its closing minutes, every attack…
The World Cup is a photographic image of the world, but it is overexposed. It is blurred though the filters of nationalist…
My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. āGet out of there,ā she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria,…
The Palestinian national soccer team isnāt playing in this yearās World Cup. But despite a national and global crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest…
Yet again, FIFA, and its chief, Gianni Infantino, have distinguished the game of football by showing what it is all about. Not…
What makes the current age feel particularly unnerving, even desperate, is that peopleās apolitical pleasures and pastimes are colonized to an unprecedented…
The first surprise in store for us with this 2026 World Cup is the impressive amnesia of everyone involved, including the international…
The opening matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup represent an ideological milestone for international sports. For the first time, forty-eight nations…
āEveryone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.ā Those were the words of…
When Guadalajara hosted the Pan American Games 15 years ago, former mayor AristĆ³teles Sandoval proposed a Human Relocation Plan to āclear the…
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