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Despite a war disrupting its soccer infrastructure, visa issues and travel restrictions, Iran will enter its final game of World Cup group play with a chance to move into the knockout round.

There's a mesmeric quality to this story of '78, a legend of how a man and a country lost the run of itself, writes .

The episode lays bare the subordination of the world’s most popular sports tournament to the US financial oligarchy and the ...

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The Fifa World Cup has never really existed in a political vacuum. Long before debates over travel bans or immigration policies, the tournament had already become a stage where governments projected ...

Some Iranian Americans in the Boston area said they were rooting for their home country's defeat in the World Cup.

The America I arrived in felt more open. More confident. More willing to take a chance on a stranger. There was a sense, in ...