Who, exactly, is this World Cup for?: RED CARD
Posted by The New York Times on June 8, 2026
Jules Boykoff sniffed it from the start. In his new book “Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing and the FIFA Greed Machine,” the Pacific University professor detailed how this event genuflects to money and influence, becoming an accomplice to political reputation laundering.
“Soccer is never just soccer,” he wrote. “And sports are politics by other means.”