We all should be fuming. The taxpayers have to put up all the money for these events and FIFA walks away with all the profits.
Over 30 years ago Eduardo Galeano described it perfectly, saying that "the profits generated by these tournaments have multiplied so prodigiously that the Biblical miracle of the bread and fish seems like a joke in comparison."
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