There are ways one could have managed visa issues in advance and seized a soft power and public diplomacy win that comes from hosting the biggest event of the biggest sport in the world. To have not done this is, as it were, an own goal.
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Immigration authorities say the detentions of a Somali referee and two Iraqi national team members were part of routine vetting. But officials and fans in their homelands want an explanation.
