FIFA loves to feed us idealistic slop about how The Power of Football can bring nations together, allowing us to look past politics and see each other as humans
and now they've got a World Cup whose host country is pretty clearly denying people from participating because of their nationality
Rodger Sherman
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
