Miguel Delaney
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And obviously the fact then that this isn't just about foreign policy, but about how one of the participating nations are affected.
And of course, a lot of human rights groups would even point to kind of, beyond human rights groups as well, would point to the USA's relationship with Israel and all this, kind of the ongoing crisis in Palestine.
the United Nations panels have described as genocide.
All of this swirling around, and I think putting foreign policy more as a central point of whether a country should host a World Cup.
But even from that, there are so many other issues from just beyond anything, how the Trump administration will use it.
I mean, we talked about sports watching in the past.
It's generally not applied to liberal democracies because they have changing governments.
They can't use them the same way.
But
Obviously, Trump is of a type of Western politician now who is authoritarian-facing.
And the talk from human rights groups like Fair Square has been about using this World Cup to further an authoritarian shift in the world and project a certain type of politics.
I mean, I wrote a year and a half ago how it was being seen as the MAGA World Cup.
And that is, of course, of a piece with these...
visa issues and the visa issue is so central to what this world cup is i think it's so telling a controversy and like if you think about it outside migrant labor at the last world cup it's a bigger controversy i think than anything we saw in the immediate bill like this is bigger than beer being not being sold in stadiums like despite like that wasn't really a problem it was more about what the kind of the u-turn suddenly represented but with this why it's so important is
FIFA have contractual provisions that government guarantees have to be given on the free movement of participants.
As Infantino himself said in 2017, a World Cup can't take place without it.
And as recently as 2025, he was talking about misconceptions and how everyone would be welcome in Canada, Mexico, and USA.
Well, that evidently isn't the case.
now within FIFA the official stance came out last night about how FIFA doesn't get involved in host nation processes in this regard I mean for one that's
I think that's a bad faith reframing of the issue, given this doesn't come from kind of cause, effect and getting.
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