🚨 🇲🇽 WHILE THE US HUMILIATES AFRICAN TEAMS ON THE TARMAC, MEXICO WELCOMES THEM LIKE KINGS!
🇿🇦 South Africa’s Bafana Bafana arrive in Pachuca — greeted by full mariachi band, smiles, and real hospitality.
🇯🇵 Japan’s Samurai Blue land in Monterrey — Governor personally gifts sombreros, norteño music, warm embrace.
Real respect. Real culture. Real football spirit.
Now compare that to America: Somali referee Omar Artan locked 11 hours and deported like a criminal. Senegal champions frisked and searched on the tarmac. Uzbekistan teams treated like suspects.
This is the difference between a Global South brother and an empire that hosts the World Cup but hates the teams from the Global South.
Mexico showing the world how it's done. The US exposing its true face.
"This is what Kenya looks like in real life, not the filtered version they show you on Instagram" - Nigerian lady gives her review of Nairobi after visiting Kenya.
— 🎥 Sommid Explorer
When Russia hosted the World Cup in 2018, it had to suspend normal visa rules for the tournament. Foreigners with tickets could enter visa-free, using a scheme called ‘Fan ID.’
Russia also had to do weird stuff to keep FIFA’s sponsors happy. For example, small shops near Fan Zones and stadiums could only sell Budweiser beer on match days.
So yes, FIFA absolutely does dictate conditions to host governments when it suits FIFA. Infantino pretending otherwise is nonsense.
CBK released an interview with former CBK Governor Micah Cheserem.
Some of the Key points to note:
— He says banks “wanted to kill” M-Pesa
— He says he ordered burning of thousands of exchange-control documents (about 47 truckloads)