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FIFA Playing Favorites With World Cup Bids

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If you love soccer, you enjoyed the 2010 World Cup and, chances are, you will keenly follow the bidding process this week which could see the United States awarded hosting rights to the 2022 tournament.

And then you’ll get a headache.

Because this bidding fight, the one in which a bunch of old guys in suits get together Thursday in a Swiss boardroom, is subject to the skewed rules of FIFA – soccer’s controversial, mysterious and barely credible governing body.

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