Europe’s World Cup Celebrates Diversity

Expand England's Dele Alli, Kyle Walker and team mates celebrate after the match between England and Sweden in World Cup quarterfinals, Samara Arena, Samara, Russia, July 7, 2018. © 2018 Reuters This weekend I sat in my local bar in Brooklyn, New York and, alongside an enthusiastic and racially diverse group of English fans, watched England defeat Sweden to advance to the World Cup semi-finals. That shared moment of sporting pride made me reflect on how the World Cup offers an utterly different worldview from that of xenophobic political leaders, who have been in the news far too much recently.…

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