Fifa says football brings the world together but the unhoused in Atlanta feel targeted and completely excluded from the tournament
“A lot of our community has been pushed out by the World Cup. We’re not just dollar signs, we’re more than that. We’re people and we’re frustrated that they’ve chosen to treat us less than human.”
“They dropped me off there in the middle of the night. They call them Mormon centres or whatever, but it ain’t nothing but a warehouse of cops. It looked like a Fema camp. When I saw it, I left, I walked all the way back here. It’s because of the World Cup. They’re trying to make it look good for tourists. They don’t want the eyesores around.”
One week before the World Cup final Gianni Infantino flew from Miami to Qatar on a luxury private jet. Infantino was in Lusail to attend the funeral of the former Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (“mentor, a visionary”) and was duly pictured frowning on a silver throne in full global statesman mode.
That same Sunday, Donald Trump made an official trip to his own golf complex in Virginia, home to a 50,000 sq ft clubhouse, Olympic-sized swimming pool and unobstructed views of the Potomac River, thanks to a renovation that involved chopping down 465 trees.
