The World Is a Soccer Ball

They’re all good reasons to boycott the World Cup.


It’s inevitable, perhaps, that in a sporting event that draws together people of all classes, creeds and colors, shameful paradoxes will emerge: the interplay between child workers in Pakistan and sports industry marketing agendas; the dissonance between the overbuilt stadiums and the poverty of the workers who poured their sweat into the concrete.

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Filed under: Business/Economy, Globalization, Politics, Sports Tagged: 2010 wold cup, child labor, fifa, soccer