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Sportswashed: FIFA’s Long Love Affair With Authoritarians (opens in new tab)

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The last major tournament staged by FIFA, the body behind the World Cup, was last summer’s Club World Cup—an international tournament where Donald Trump crashed the trophy presentation at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, joining the winning team’s celebrations as they lifted the prize. As my colleague Tim Murphy wrote at the time, autocracies have long […]

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