How to make the World Cup a win for soccer diplomacy is among the main developments being tracked today. Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan.
The promise and peril of soccer diplomacy during the soccer World Cup that starts on June 11 were already on display in December, during the draw that took place in Washington’s Trump Kennedy Center.
Three world leaders shared the stage, representing the tournament’s co-hosts in this first-ever trinational cup: US President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
There was no love lost between Trump and the other two after he had hinted at military intervention in Mexico and the annexation of Canada, in keeping with his claim to dominate the whole Western Hemisphere, from Venezuela and Cuba to Greenland.
When FIFA, the international federation of soccer associations, awarded the 2026 cup to the three co-bidders during Trump’s first term, their cooperation was supposed to highlight the integration of the North American continent.
An early and optimistic slogan was “United As One.”.
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