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Why the 2026 World Cup Final is in New Jersey defies logic

FIFA made a decision, perhaps due to elite pressure and politics to have the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final in New Jersey instead of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. It was a choice that reinforced to me that FIFA is completely out of step with the grassroots of the sport they claim to be advancing. In the United States, the NY/NJ area is not a soccer hotbed beyo…