International soccer has too often been marred with scandal, ranging from bribery to match-fixing to prejudice. The latter of those three is particularly ridiculous, considering that soccer is a game played by everyone. It is the beautiful game primarily for the wheel of color, variety of religions and different sexual orientations that all share a common-ground with a love of the sport.
That beauty is threatened by one of only two official bids to FIFA for the rights to host the 2026 World Cup in Morocco.
With European and Asian federations excluded from bidding due to Russia’s and Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup in 2018 and 2022, the three-nation bid from North American nations Canada, Mexico and the United States, with the U.