On Thursday, soccer’s 21st World Cup opens when, in a chillingly symbolic way, two dictatorships, Russia and Saudi Arabia, meet in the Moscow curtainraiser.
The beautiful game gets down and dirty, hijacked by corrupt commercial and political interests.
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