You could stand in the Plaza de BolĂvar in Bogotá on almost any July this decade and watch the same trick performed twice: once by the crowd, once by the man on the balcony. The crowd wears the yellow of the national team because it has always worn the yellow
Somewhere in the seventy-eighth minute of a group-stage match this summer, the broadcast will cut to commercial, and a campaign will spend real money to put a candidate's face between the corner kick and the equalizer. This is not speculation. Political campaigns already treat World Cup windows as
Sunday, August 15, 1971, and the highest-rated show in America was Bonanza. NBC ran it every week at nine o'clock, and Americans built their evenings around it the way earlier generations built theirs around the radio. That night the network cut away instead to a man behind a
On June 24, FIFA sent an invitation to all 211 of its member associations to enter the first U-15 World Cup and Festival, a boys' tournament running October 22 to 31 in Azerbaijan. Russia was on the list. Two days later, Russia's Minister of Sport, Mikhail Degtyarev,
Miami, December 5, 2024. FIFA convenes the draw for its new Club World Cup and announces, apropos of no prior tradition, a "FIFA Peace Prize." The inaugural recipient is Donald Trump, then president-elect, praised by Gianni Infantino from the stage as a man of peace. No prize like