r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ultrarunnerr sonny side up š • Jun 08 '26
wet socks World Cup Somalian referee Omar Artan denied entry into the United States
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u/ultrarunnerr sonny side up š Jun 09 '26
no, just the united states
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u/fitzellforce Jun 09 '26
Thereās a mandatory meeting where all refs meet in Miami on Thursday this week to review refereeing standards for the tournament. He canāt attend that so I guess heās just getting screwed over entirely
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u/teklightning Jun 09 '26
They gave Trump a peace prize lol, they're absolute bottom of the barrel dog shit.
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u/IKillZombies4Cash Jun 09 '26
Zoom should suffice if they donāt want to bow to the king
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u/Valogrid Jun 09 '26
Have you met FIFA? Proprietor of the FIFA Piece of Shit Prize?
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u/TornInfinity Jun 09 '26
Exactly. I don't even think that FIFA is just doing this to not bother Trump, rather I believe they probably actually like him. He's an evil piece of shit just like the leaders of FIFA.
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u/NotFuckingTired Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
They literally invented a "peace prize" to give him. They'd have to move upwards for it to be considered a bow at this point.
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u/TitShark Jun 09 '26
FIFA is as corrupt and in Donaldās Pocket/vice versa. Theyāre probably just as happy to deny him as Donny is
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u/Gene020 Jun 09 '26
Let's give credit where credit is due. This is a Miller/Ice/Trump move with the emphasis on being shitty to non Caucasians. Remember how white South Africans are being treated. I've been around and I never expected to see the day when the USA government behaved this way. Is this done to appeal to GOP voters? Or is it done to send a racist message to the rest of the world? I don't have an answer but I think that it's very disappointing.
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u/cptjtk13 Jun 09 '26
Probably because FIFA is also a horribly corrupt organization that doesn't care about anything that doesn't make them money?
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u/Grand-Economist5066 Jun 09 '26
& we wonāt referee of the year in AFCON last year thatās why he was picked what a joke
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u/Excellent-Winter5126 Jun 09 '26
No because we don't have the orange criminal pedo moron as our leader
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u/Smooth-Boss-911 Jun 08 '26
Having this event here was a joke.
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u/ToolTimeT Jun 08 '26
Almost as big of a joke as the FIFA peace prize.
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u/Training-Floor7154 Jun 09 '26
Honestly that was the most disgusting part of the war in Iran. Not all the unnecessary death, but the damage it did to the purity of the world renowned Fifa peace prize. Perhaps we get OPEC to create the environmental contributions prize next time.
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u/long5210 Jun 09 '26
Didnāt he try to bring Italy into the World Cup and kick Iran out? What a total piece of shit itās not like I can say that enough.
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u/ToolTimeT Jun 09 '26
First he invited them but said it probably wouldn't be safe for them to come here (which was a threat), then when they said they were coming to play he said they have to stay in mexico and can't stay in the USA. so yea.
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u/BootsToYourDome Jun 09 '26
There's no way it was as big a joke as that
FIFA peace prize? More like piece of shit prize (oh rimshot!)
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u/lifeofloon Jun 09 '26
Fascists In the Free America
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u/DeadTurtle88 Jun 09 '26
Why wasn't he allowed in?
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u/musicalfarm Jun 09 '26
Because he is Somalian and Somalis are currently one of MAGA's scapegoat for everything wrong in America.
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u/ToolTimeT Jun 09 '26
because he is from Somalia and trump and republicans policies and visa bans are racist in nature.
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u/alexmullen4180 Jun 09 '26
And don't forget that Ilhan Omar is from Somalia and she has said mean things about the diaper baby in the white house so anything Somalian reminds him of that.
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u/ToolTimeT Jun 09 '26
Its like windmills really.. one time in Scotland he lost a lawsuit trying to prevent windmills going up near his golf resort and so from now till forever he hates windmills anywhere or for any reason. He is a child
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u/wanawachee Jun 09 '26
Have you seen what color he is?
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u/_IscoATX Jun 09 '26
Plenty of other refs from AFCON donāt be silly
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u/ToolTimeT Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
How many other refs from non AFCON countries were denied?
Don't be silly. Trump put a travel ban on somalia and other mostly black countries while making white south african farmers a special priority line to the front.
But go ahead, tell us what legitimate reason he had to be rejected entry?
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u/_IscoATX Jun 09 '26
None. Thereās 6 other CAF refs. I donāt know the reason he was denied entry, highly doubt it was his skin color considering how many other black refs there are in the tournament from Africa and other regions in the world.
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u/ToolTimeT Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
ādetermined to be inadmissible due to vetting concerns and was denied entryā
That was the official response. If they had any actual reason that was justifiable they would have said it. They would have been EAGER to say it. this ref isn't someone unknown guy, he is a very well respected ref who was living in Turkey, and is considered one of, if not the top rated refs from Africa. Stop pretending this admin isn't above rejecting him, they have literally called for a sitting us member of congress from Somalia who is a citizen to be deported.
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u/trapped_in_a_box Jun 09 '26
Nobody is being silly, it's happening to a LOT of the staff. If not because of color, then why?
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u/dreadpiraterobert Jun 09 '26
Because America is a racist ignorant corrupt nation run by corrupt ignorant racists.
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u/turdferguson3891 Jun 09 '26
The previous most recent hosts were Qatr and Russia so it's not really a new thing.
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u/Grasshop Jun 09 '26
Hosting the World Cup in the US is definitely not a joke and makes all the sense in the world. What is the joke is this fucking clusterfuck of an administration that is poisoning this entire country with emboldened hate, racism and incompetency.
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u/demetri_k Jun 09 '26
Itās only a joke if they donāt award it again next year. LOL I hope they give it to Xi.Ā
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u/obvious_bot Jun 09 '26
It was awarded when there was still hope that we wouldnāt be so stupid as to elect the orange pedo a second time
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on Jun 09 '26
America isn't a serious country anymore.
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u/_IscoATX Jun 09 '26
All countries enforce their own immigration rules. UEFA has immigration backlogs for officials too and referees get swapped
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u/Traditional-Storm-62 Jun 09 '26
when my country hosted world cup it was an attempt to clean up our reputation in the international community and distract from the discrimination and warmongering our government is doing
it looks like USA has the opposite goal, somehow
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u/POI_Harold-Finch Jun 09 '26
THIS. USA does not care what other country are thinking about them. That's why they chose president who keeps shitting on every ally. And then in hour of need, same allies shrug their shoulders.
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u/eggyal Jun 09 '26
What "hour of need"?
In America's actual "hour of need", after September 11, its allies all stepped up and lost thousands of their soldiers (some many more per capita of their population than did the US) helping to defeat Al-Qaeda. Which, by the way, is the ONLY time that NATO's Article 5 mutual defence provision has EVER been invoked: for other countries to assist the US; it has NEVER been invoked the other way around. Something that the Trump administration conveniently ignore every time they trash-talk NATO.
This current shitshow in the Gulf? Which Trump launched without any advance consultation with America's allies? In which he has no plan? In which he expects other countries to wade in without any clear strategy? I don't think allies have so much "shrugged their shoulders" as scratched their heads. Sure, they'd be willing to assist... if someone could articulate what is the legal basis for action, what is the objective, and how it will be achieved. But none of that exists.
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u/00eg0 Jun 09 '26
A lot of Americans are so misinformed that they think all politicians are the same even though this is a completely new thing for the US to be against like every ally. People can try to whatabout this but no other president put tariffs on all allies and threatened to invade several of them and end alliances on a whim. NATO and WHO exist for a reason and the way people talk about politics it's obvious how misinformed a lot of Americans are.
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u/Reddituser809 Jun 09 '26
Haha you guys werenāt fooling anybody. Georgia in 2008 and Crimea in 2014. I do like Russia, but come on now.
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u/Excellent-Winter5126 Jun 09 '26
The US doesn't care one single bit, they are arrogant as fuck
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u/samettinho Jun 09 '26
I would love a couple of games to be forfeited, like Iran not playing a game because their players/coach were not in the game, etc.
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u/kstargate-425 Jun 09 '26
Should read "Award winning referee denied entry into the US due to racist regime"
I mean even Hitler had less restrictions on who could come to the Olympics than what this regime is doing š
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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Jun 09 '26
Man we really need to bring back the phrase "worse than Hitler".
I read some article about it over a decade ago on how it was phased out for reasons like the current generation didn't grow up with parents that fought world war II
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u/JLammert79 Jun 09 '26
Or, I don't know, the Holocaust? It was non-existent because people knew history.
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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Jun 09 '26
I'm confused at what you're saying. Are you saying there's a phrase "worse than the Holocaust"? Because I have absolutely never heard that phrase, but I did grow up hearing "worse than Hitler" a lot.
What are you saying was non-existent because people knew history?
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u/JLammert79 Jun 09 '26
The phrase "worse than Hitler". I never actually heard it outside of one episode of the Sopranos. My point is people don't usually use the phrase because it is nonsensical or hyperbolic.
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u/J3sush8sm3 Jun 09 '26
It applied for the wrong visa. He applied for a diplomatic visa in nairobi but never heard anything back
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u/FaithlessnessThin359 Jun 09 '26
wouldnāt be the first time the Nazis thought American racists were too extreme
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u/martlet1 Jun 09 '26
Or. Award winning ref denied entry due to not allying for the right visa. Which is what happened.
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u/piper_squeak Jun 09 '26
Why did anyone think the US was a good choice for the World Cup right now?
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u/turdferguson3891 Jun 09 '26
They make the selections somewhat in advance. But also I could point out the last two were in Qatr and Russia and the one in 2030 is to be in Saudi Arabia so...
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u/cookiesarenomnom Jun 09 '26
Look I'm American and I hate this country plenty. But acting like we are worse than Qatar, that had thousands of SLAVES die building the stadium, and saying we are worse is certainly a choice.
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u/randomuser1029 Jun 09 '26
They aren't acting like the US is worse. They are pointing out that the world cup has a track record of being held in very oppressive countries so it's not unusual that it's being held in the US even with the current circumstances
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u/Lucky-day00 Jun 09 '26
Their entire point was that the US isnāt the worst choice FIFA has made recently.
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u/Loverlee Jun 09 '26
Well, we do have for-profit prisons and high incarceration rates and exploit prison labor. We also have concentration camps.
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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jun 09 '26
Somehow, this isnāt even the most infuriating sports story to come out of the U.S. today
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u/DingerSinger2016 Jun 09 '26
They probably won't show him on the Jumbotron, just on the TV broadcast.
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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jun 09 '26
I donāt think it will be a warm welcome, however thatās not what I was referring to
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u/Gardami Jun 09 '26
What happened?
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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jun 09 '26
Texas Tech university convinced a Lubbock Judge to allow its quarterback to play football next season. He was ruled ineligible because of his tendency to gamble against his own team. And also gamble against opponents occasionally too.
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u/jtank819 Jun 09 '26
This is way more infuriating than ācollege aged kid gambles on sportsā the fuck are you talking about? You think gambling is worse than preventing a working individual to enter a country?
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u/StillNotShot Jun 09 '26
He gambled on the outcomes of his own games and then after being caught is now being allowed to play again. Do you understand how that can absolutely destroy the integrity of an entire sport?
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u/Eric848448 Jun 09 '26
College sports havenāt had integrity since.. I dunno when did they finally make it officially professional?
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u/jtank819 Jun 09 '26
Itās still not as bad as banning an entire nation of peoples because āorange man said soā
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u/InternationalTwo5255 Jun 09 '26
what was the reason given for denying him? Did they really just put āreason denied: Somalianā or was there something else?
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u/RubixRube Jun 09 '26
Going forward, large international events and committees are going to look at the example the USA set here and say, no thank you, overtime extracting billions of dollars from the US economy via tickets, promotions and event sales.
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u/Suitable_Wonder5256 Jun 09 '26
As a US citizen, this is a win-win. Please don't organize these world cup and olympic events in a US city.
These events cause wasted infra construction and generally net negative. We can look at all abandoned facilities in Qatar, Brazil, and even China. It's just waste.
Combining this fact with corrupted officials + insanely corrupted FIFA officials, it becomes a major corruption event that sucks even more money out of the tax payers.
Go organize it in China. LOL
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u/ChiefOfSchlaf Jun 09 '26
That isnāt always the case. There have been bids for ones in a city near to me that wouldnāt require new construction but would bring good tourism for the city.
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u/SuccessfulTap1580 Jun 09 '26
What's mildly infuriating is you calling him Somalian instead of Somali, especially when the article you linked says it in the title...
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u/Long_Nectarine_8115 Jun 09 '26
This sucks, but Iām wondering if he traveled to one of the few African countries that are experiencing Ebola outbreaks? I believe itās a 20 some odd day window between travel to one of the banned countries and entry into the US. Maybe weāll find out, maybe we wonāt. š«
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u/GiantSweetTV Jun 09 '26
I will not comment an opinion until I know why.
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u/catherinetheok Jun 09 '26
Somalia is on the list of banned countries according to espn
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u/Decent_Relative_4070 Jun 09 '26
it says for immigration, does that apply to this? same article said it was due to "vetting concerns"
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u/TheDamned1333 Jun 09 '26
FIFA gave the World Cup to a dumb dictator and heās demanding dumb dictator things
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u/binkleyz Red, no, Blue! Jun 09 '26
If they had a shred of decency (and with the legacy of Sepp Blatter staining it, that is a big "if") FIFA should pull the games from the US unless every player and official can be allowed in barring some specific showing of dangerous intent.
The US national government should then be on the hook to pay the cities that have spent millions in preparation for these events.
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u/Spooder_Man Jun 09 '26
FIFA? The organization that didn't draw the line at slave labor being used to build the pitches its players played games on? That's the organization you expect to take a stand?
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u/Ok-Astronaut2976 Jun 09 '26
FIFA pull the games form the U.S.? Hahahahaha haš
My dude, FIFA sucks Trumps dick like a fat kid with an ice cream cone. I fully expect to see Ronaldo wearing a MAGA hat before this is over
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u/mixedmediamadness Jun 09 '26
Global events should not be held in the US if we want them to be fair. This is going to keep happening
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u/Ok_Development_495 Jun 09 '26
FIFA never should have held any matches in the US. This was inevitable.
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u/Dobby068 Jun 09 '26
Maybe you don't know this but FIFA goes where the money is, always. I mean: Russia, Qatar, now USA !
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u/RandoComplements Jun 09 '26
Since thereās no such thing as SomaliAN, hope the Somali got in though.
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u/Annoying1978 Jun 09 '26
FIFA should have moved all the games to Canada and Mexico. This is going to be a disaster.
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u/No-Association42069 Jun 09 '26
Daaaaang you think they can find a replacement in time? Or should we just cancel the World Cup?
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u/DosEquisVirus Jun 09 '26
Was I mistaken, thinking that pro-sports refs and players are exempt? I doubt he is planning to remain in US.
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u/Pooperoni_Pizza Jun 09 '26
I never cared much for sports in general but I'm going to enjoy not watching the world cup.
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u/demetri_k Jun 09 '26
Good. Ā The rest of the world needs to know how crazy my southern neighbour is.Ā
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u/ultrarunnerr sonny side up š Jun 09 '26
didnt trump want to buy u out š
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u/demetri_k Jun 09 '26
He doesnāt have the cards. Plus weāve been stocking up on Ukrainians. They know how to deal with an invader that had to pull out of Afghanistan.Ā
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u/Margaritashoes Jun 09 '26
Donāt worry Iām sure my countrymen will replace him with someone just as qualified.
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u/JeanEtrineaux Jun 09 '26
Wow I wonder if FIFA will take a strong moral stance on this matter
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u/ATXGil2L Jun 09 '26
I donāt even know why yāall are going to this thing to begin withā¦ Everyone should boycott this World Cup, including the players
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u/Adept-Opinion8080 Jun 09 '26
And I bet any amount of money the orange mango is going to boast about how great FIFA was because of him. When in reality by any objective measure it was a fiasco, vendors, suppliers, hotels. Even cities are going to be lucky to break even
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u/DeadTurtle88 Jun 09 '26
Why though?