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Let's Take Away the 2018 World Cup from Putin's Russia

Charge of the Football Brigade

Soccer sanctions can bite—which makes the next World Cup in Moscow a perfect opportunity to apply real economic pressure over the annexation of Crimea.

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In the next few weeks, as the 2014 soccer World Cup is in full flow in Brazil, we should have proof of whether Qatar won its bid to host the 2022 soccer World Cup by means of good, old-fashioned bribery.

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