Everything leads us to believe it, launches the Spanish-speaking version of the American sports media ESPN : à l’ère des “fresh advertising breaks, overwhelming monopolies and hypocritical socio-political discourses†, “the essence of football is lost†. But not quite: “powerful ambivalence†of the 2026 World Cup something emerges that can make us still believe in “transformative power of football†. Yes, the competition is ultra-polluting, excessive and confiscated by Donald Trump and Fifa. But it also marks the entry of the most popular sport in the world into a new era: that of “football postcolonialâ€. What will save the 2026 World Cup, move forward ESPN, is that she will be the “Mondial of diasporas†.
The formula used is the same in The Colombian. For the Medellín daily, while the presidency of Donald Trump in the United States represents in an almost caricatured way the Western will to “domination†of the world in recent decades, one of the consequences of which has been mass migration from poor countries to richer countries, it is both fair and paradoxical that the World Cup, largely organized in the United States, highlights immigrants, their children or their grandchildren.
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