Sport Review: 2026 FIFA World Cup
This year, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) international association football (which I will refer to as "soccer" in the rest of this piece for the sake of consistency), beach soccer, and futsal federation held their quadrennial international men's soccer event, the FIFA World Cup, which I will refer to as the "World Cup" in the rest of this piece for the sake of convenience. Hosted in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this World Cup was particularly divisive, with controversy after controversy coming out of it. I will state my own thoughts of this sporting event. I thought the choice to host across three countries was dumb. I generally think World Cups should be hosted in one country at a time, as multiple countries co-hosting a World Cup raises more expenses and effort for hosts, travelling fans, and the playing teams. Additionally, I felt it was really only the United States that this World Cup was meant for, as the Canadian a...