New Jersey Paid for the World Cup Pitch. FIFA Is Selling It for $11 Million and Keeping Every Cent.
New Jersey committed more than $307 million in taxpayer money to get ready for the World Cup, covering a loan to the host committee and a list of FIFA-required changes to MetLife Stadium and the infrastructure around it. Now FIFA’s retail arm is cutting up the actual World Cup final pitch, sourced from Sunday’s Argentina-Spain … Read more
