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World Cup Chaos: Fans Sour on Trump’s Crackdown & FIFA

FIFA’s 23rd international soccer tournament, hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada kicks off Thursday, but global headlines have been calling foul for days: fans are having their visas revoked, players are facing extended searches and interrogations at the border, and infrastructure is not up to par for the scale of the event.

Will the peoples’ sport survive World Cup 2026? BreakThrough’s Nicholas Mwangi, a writer and organizer in Kenya, says fans around the world are going into this year’s tournament with a bitter taste in their mouths.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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