Referee denied entry.
Officials denied entry.
Players denied entry.
Fans denied entry.
The U.S. is proving exactly why it never should’ve been chosen to host the World Cup.
The USA is doing sportswashing all wrong. The idea is you do a Russia or a Qatar and welcome everyone in, trying to appear super-cute so that people stop thinking about your appalling human rights violations and corruption. You're not meant to shine a light on it. Stupid country.
“For the past year, FIFA, has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but the space sits largely idle. Paying rent to the Trumps was the choice of Gianni Infantino.”
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