I’m going to spend a month or so anchoring The Post’s first World Cup newsletter. The World Cup is a rare thing, like the Olympics, and a global spectacle on a similar scale. Two years before Argentina hosted the 1978 World Cup, a military junta overthrew the elected government, prompting a debate within many national teams over whether they should compete. The dictatorship pledged a “World Cup of peace,” despite a human-rights record that included disappearing thousands of dissidents. More World Cup coverage:Chechnya’s leader uses World Cup to extend his outreach to Middle EastFrom Rockville to Russia: Rodney Wallace will represent Costa Rica at World CupIn the season of Mohamed Salah, the city of Liverpool wraps its arms around a Muslim

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2018 09:00 UTC