“The soccer haters are at it again. You can count on them every four years in the weeks before the World Cup, telling us how terrible the tournament is going to be, how bad the American team is and how awfully the people who run FIFA, soccer’s ruling body, have behaved. I wrote that last one, too. This year, there’s even more to complain about, beginning with FIFA’s extortionate effort to sell tickets to matches such as Cape Verde versus Saudi Arabia or Jordan versus Algeria as if they were Brazil versus Spain. About how hotel rooms are going unsold. And how the expanded tournament has allowed too many minnows into the tournament that will get chopped up. All this will soon be beside the point. …”
NY Times
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“WHEN Argentina won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, their list of opponents contributed to one of the weakest paths to glory in the competition’s history. This was the last 32-team tournament and the addition of more low level teams this year will only dilute the overall strength of the World Cup. Even though Argentina beat France and also came up against Croatia and the Netherlands, they also had Saudi Arabia, Australia, Poland and Mexico on their fixture list. The average ranking of their opponents was 25.3, the highest of any World Cup winner since Uruguay in 1930. …”
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