World Soccer

FROM KEIR RADNEDGE

Football has never seen anything like the 2022 World Cup finals, which are about to kick off in Qatar. Nor, for that matter, has World Soccer.

The most widely-followed sporting extravaganza on the planet will erupt out of the Arab world for the first time. Also, for this reason, the Gulf state of Qatar will play host in the northern hemisphere winter rather than the traditional June/July dates.

One of the fascinations will be seeing whether European teams profit from taking on the rest of the world in

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