Smallest team, biggest pitch

While Curaçao’s players were training for their match against in Ecuador, government officials from the World Cup’s smallest-ever competitor hosted a two-day conference in Kansas City to promote it as a destination for American investment. The Caribbean island of around 158,000 people located just north of Venezuela is a semi-autonomous part of the Kingdom of…

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World Cup fuels ticketing reform demands

Demands are growing for a political reckoning over ticket scams at the World Cup — and beyond. The National Independent Venue Association and Fan Alliance, organizations representing and advocating for entertainment venues and artists respectively, sent a joint letter to Congress on Thursday, calling on lawmakers to ban speculative and ghost tickets, cases where resellers…

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