Note: This is story first appeared in The Beautiful Game by CNN Sports, our daily newsletter on all things World Cup. To subscribe, click here.
It’s now just two days to go until the start of the World Cup and it’s safe to say that things are heating up both on and off the pitch. While teams put the finishing touches to their preparations and hunker down into their camps across North America, we’ve seen somewhat predictable visa issues make headlines before a ball is even kicked.
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Visa issues precede the ‘World Cup of Chaos’
And visas issues are where we’ll start today’s edition of The Beautiful Game. There was plenty of talk in the months prior to this opening week about who will and won’t be able to enter the United States for the World Cup.
