Global football, written sharply
When nearly 2,000 SoFi Stadium hospitality workers authorized a strike by 96 percent in early June, the timing looked like textbook leverage. The USA’s World Cup 2026 group stage matches were locked in at Inglewood. FIFA had no power to move them. A walkout at the host nation’s marquee venue would have been the most … Read more
Four days before the United States opens its home World Cup, the US opener tickets for World Cup 2026 still have not sold out, and the way FIFA has priced this tournament means that is not an accident of weak interest so much as a confession written into the algorithm. As of June 8, FIFA’s … Read more
The first United States match of the World Cup 2026 kicks off at SoFi Stadium on 12 June, when the USMNT face Paraguay. The people who will pour the beer, plate the food and turn over the hotel rooms for the visitors arriving to watch it have spent the past week voting to walk out. … Read more
