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How Qatar Took the World Cup

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Do the Fans Show Disaffection?

Heidi Blake is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She wrote and published The Ugly Game, along with Jonathan Calvert. 17 of the 22 FIFA Executive Committee members who were in place at the time Qatar was awarded the cup have now been arrested or indicted for corruption and bribery. Heidi: What people actually care about now is not so much the bribes and the corruption, but is the human cost of that corrupt decision.

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