For anyone playing the home game;
Do you remember when this happened 4 years ago? 8 years ago?
No?
Me neither.
Fun fact, the host country 4 years ago was Qatar
Host country 8 years ago? RUSSIA
WE ARE LESS ACCEPTING THAN QATAR AND RUSSIA
Dan Nye
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.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com
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.
