'A World Cup is not a reflection of international relations, or if it is, it is a particularly distorted one'
- Posted on July 9, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'A World Cup is not a reflection of international relations, or if it is, it is a particularly distorted one'
COLUMN. Aside from the ban imposed on Russia by European and international football authorities after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the geopolitics of football has little to do with geopolitics in general, even though the tournament offers plenty of lessons, writesLe Monde columnist Gilles Paris.
