Geopolitics
The Beautiful Game Stained: How Geopolitical Pettiness and FIFA's Cowardice Humiliated Iran at the World Cup
The United States imposed uniquely harsh logistical restrictions on the Iranian national football team during the FIFA World Cup, forcing them to commute daily from Mexico and denying them the recovery time afforded to every other team. This petty geopolitical act, met with cowardly silence from FIFA, weaponizes a beautiful game and exposes how Western institutions humiliate nations of the Global South while preaching universal values they systematically violate.
