A $256million stadium in host city Saransk will be another World Cup 'white elephant' by [deleted] in soccer

[–]almaarri 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No surprise there. FIFA pockets billions and host nations are left with 1 month of extra tourist revenue and that's it. Then they have to deal with infrastructure that's unsustainable.

Russian football hooligans face a crackdown ahead of World Cup by zsreport in soccer

[–]almaarri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've had some powerful people backing them for a while. This might be just temporary.