Next year, the FIFA World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the first time the North American continent will host the world’s premier soccer tournament since 1994.
It will also be the first time the tournament is hosted in a nation known for human rights abuses.
In 2018, the tournament was hosted in Russia in the aftermath of a massive scandal that exposed soccer’s global governing body as a cesspool of corruption. Russia, of course, is famously known for its lack of corruption, and there is absolutely no history whatsoever of drug cheating in any sport, especially not in sporting events hosted on its soil.
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Four years later, the World Cup made its way to Qatar, a beacon of freedom and
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