Welcome to Trump’s World Cup, a depressingly angry version of football uniting the planet
"There is a suggestion that the sheer scale of Fifa’s complicity might finally leave Infantino exposed, vulnerable to the challenge of his members at next year’s presidential hustings. This World Cup is his life’s work, his masterpiece, but possibly also a moment of overreach. Infantino has absorbed Fifa into his bones, become its one man brand, its official Instagram mouthpiece, the sun king who believes he has a divine calling to be in these rooms doing these things. Now I am become football, destroyer of worlds.
He has also stretched Fifa’s own statutes by aligning the global game with a single divisive political movement, has run this World Cup without a local organising committee, overseeing it rainmaker-style alongside the Maga politician and renowned American patriot Andrew Giuliani. Football survived Qatar and Russia. It will survive this too, but in what form, with what degree of love and trust and connection? How thin can you stretch this thing, how far can you push the window of tolerance? We may be about to find out."
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