Amid FIFA Sell-Off Fiasco, A Reminder That World Cups Save Lives [Rerun]

Podcast: The Soccernomics Podcast · Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski, Ashish Malhotra

Opublikowano: 2026-08-04

Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide. Though we promise, this is ultimately an uplifting and hopeful story. As the fallout from Gianni Infantino's botched attempt to sell a share of the World Cup continues, we'll be coming to you with a new episode about it on Thursday. In the meantime, we thought it was a perfect opportunity to republish an episode we first put out in May - as a reminder of why the World Cup is so important to people. It literally saves lives. This episode...