"“More than any leader in sport, Infantino has enabled the global swerve toward fascism,” writes Boykoff. The head of an organization committed to political neutrality, Infantino has not shied away from picking sides." jacobin.com/2026/06/fifa...
Other recent World Cup hosts used sports to prettify their image. But Donald Trump isn’t so much “sportswashing” as using the World Cup to show off the United States’ ability to discriminate against o...