Dispatch
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Sport
World Cup 2026: When Football’s Power Struggle Overshadows the Game
UEFA, FIFA, and the World Cup are locked in a week where governance has become the headline act
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Sport
Hosts on the Brink: A World Cup That Keeps Asking What Sport Is Really For
From the USA’s collapse to drone crackdowns and presidential meddling, World Cup 2026 is exposing football’s fault lines.
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Sport
World Cup 2026 Round of 16: When Knockouts Become Narratives
Morocco’s historic surge, France’s steel, and the looming storms — meteorological and metaphorical — around England and Brazil
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