List of Sports articles
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Daniel García / AFP / Getty Images Is the Screen About to Go Blank for Argentina’s Football Godfather?
With bizarre plans for a new league, Julio Grondona is finally showing his age.
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Daniel García / AFP / Getty Images Will the World Cup Actually Help Brazil to Solve Its Problems?
If it does, don’t thank FIFA -- thank the protestors.
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Bruno Fahy / AFP / Getty Images The Little Countries That Could
Belgium and Uruguay are ready to reap the dividends of diversity.
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Vanderlei Almeida / AFP / Getty Images Why Play the World Cup in a Malaria Zone?
Teams venturing inland in Brazil may have more to contend with than the opposition
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Fred Dufour / AFP / Getty Images It’s Not Just About Talent
West African countries have the players to win the World Cup, but they can’t develop them -- just like their economies.
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Pierre Teyssot / AFP / Getty Images Soccer’s Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Step 1: Go to the World Cup.
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Evaristo Sa / AFP / Getty Images A Soccer Fan with a Conscience
Are there any teams in Brazil that you can support without holding your nose?
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618940_450450318_top.jpg The GNOE: Foreign Policy’s World Cup Predictor
Can political and economic variables predict soccer results? Of course they can, maybe.
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Pedro Ugarte / AFP / Getty Images The Curse of the Plastic Players
Every country wants a Brazilian on its team, but what if he scores against Brazil?
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Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP / Getty Images Brazil’s Man of the Moment, by Necessity
If Neymar didn't exist, the marketers would have had to invent him.
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Getty Images - Ezra Shaw / Getty Images - Stu Forster / Getty Images - Stu Forster / Getty Images Welcome to Midfield General!
There's more to the World Cup than a bunch of soccer games and funky hairstyles.
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Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images Mullahs in the Midfield
How sanctions and politics scuttled Iran’s World Cup ambitions.
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Buda Mendes/Getty Images Brazil Is ‘Totally Screwed’
The land of sun, sex, and soccer couldn’t be more down about the World Cup.
