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Hosting the Olympcs & World Cup: Business, Distraction, and Sportwashing

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World Cup - The Ugly Black Eye

FIFA was founded by a bunch of old white European men, mostly European white guys. They started taking kickbacks and they got a little nasty with the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The United Kingdom had the best pitch for the 2018 World Cup to the point where everyone's like, whoa, that's amazing. And apparently the United States is pitch for 2022 was jaw dropping.

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