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  • That's a wrap
    by By POLITICO Staff
    Final whistle. After six weeks, that’s a wrap on our World Cup coverage and live analysis — tracking not the goals and games, but the power plays, political battles and geopolitical stakes shaping the tournament. Thanks for following along.
  • Will the 2034 cup be in 2035?
    by By Zoha Qamar
    Ramadan, Hajj, the Winter Olympics and rising global temperatures are boxing FIFA into an unprecedented scheduling dilemma.
  • Moroccan and Saudi World Cups draw human rights concerns
    by By Emilio Perez Ibarguen
    FIFA must secure guarantees from the host nations that LGBTQ+ visitors will be protected from prosecution under laws criminalizing homosexuality, advocates say.
  • The World Cup's missing country
    by By Emily Cadei
    The 2026 World Cup expanded to 48 teams, but China still couldn’t qualify. Now FIFA is eyeing another expansion — and the billions of fans it hopes China could bring.
  • Will New York, New Jersey do sports together ever again?
    by By Ry Rivard
    The World Cup was a showcase for the region. It also revealed the challenges of a partnership built on necessity.
  • LA’s next mega-event test: The coming climate Olympics
    by By Alex Nieves
    City leaders are spending billions to make the next great global sporting event held in America — the 2028 Olympics — a story of climate and environment policy progress.
  • NJ Transit achieves its World Cup goooal!
    by By Ry Rivard
    After a cursed 2014 Super Bowl, the underdog transit agency kept the trains (and buses) running on time for the world's biggest sports event.
  • Chicago passed on the World Cup but has other sports plans
    by By Shia Kapos
    A whole new generation of sports teams is betting Chicago’s appetite for sports is bigger than its traditional loyalties.
  • Did World Cup permanently change ticket-price politics?
    by By Gregory Svirnovskiy
    A wave of fans left outside World Cup stadiums after buying "ghost tickets" has added momentum to state and federal efforts to crack down on speculative ticket sales.
  • New York, New Jersey to examine whether World Cup funds were money well spent
    by By Ry Rivard
    The host committee released a study last summer predicting $3.3 billion in economic impact across New York and New Jersey.
  • It's Giuliani (extra) time
    by By Sophia Cai
    White House FIFA Taskforce executive director Andrew Giuliani told me on Friday that he wanted this match to go to overtime. You might have called the overtime, I told him as the players prepared to return to the field after 90 minutes. “We can thank Martinez for playing out of his mind!!” he texted back, […]
  • Spot the pol!
    by By POLITICO Staff
    Study the photograph carefully. Only the political figure is missing. Guess who it is.