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How This World Cup Changed Soccer
The Daily
The World Cup in Saudi Arabia
FIFA have been able to paint this city, this country with their own brush. They've turned it into their ultimate vision of what the world could look like. Saudi Arabia has seen what sport can do for a country that's faced international criticism not only over the ongoing war in Yemen, but over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. FIFA knows exactly how it wants the World Cup to look and it's likely to want to take it to a place that allows it to do that again. It puts a lot of soccer fans in a difficult position. What cost is worth having a World Cup? I don't think there's any reason to believe that FIFA from now on will spend any
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