The games have been great but this has really been such a terrible World Cup outside of those stadiums. FIFA was banking on the excitement over the games quieting the political conversation, but the mistreatment of so many teams and fans have been the defining story.
Can you imagine the gall? The audacity of suggesting something like this when Israel killed hundreds of Palestinian football players and young people aspiring to become footballers? Suggesting Palestinians play with the people that are currently carrying a genocide against them?!