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Fifa’s “No-Place”: Why the 2026 World Cup Final at Metlife Is a Defeat for Football History

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FIFA’s decision to play the final of the 2026 World Cup at MetLife Stadium in the United States reopened an uncomfortable debate: can the most important football game be played in a stadium without football history? The election leaves out Aztec Stadium, a global symbol where legends like Pelé and Diego Armando Maradona were crowned, and exposes an increasingly dominant logic: that of the...
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FIFA’s decision to play the final of the 2026 World Cup at MetLife Stadium in the United States reopened an uncomfortable debate: can the most important football game be played in a stadium without football history? The election leaves out Aztec Stadium, a global symbol where legends like Pelé and Diego Armando Maradona were crowned, and exposes an increasingly dominant logic: that of the...

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RedBoing broke the news in on Sunday, March 29, 2026.
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