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As you watch the World Cup final this weekend, where Hyundai USA is an official FIFA World Cup sponsor, maybe think about child labor making car parts in Alabama, United States, a country who also will host the next WC reuters.com/investigates/s…

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On an extraordinary 13-year journey that has bought and brought the World Cup to a once unknown tiny desert peninsula - with the big man ⁦Rory Smith⁩

Qatar 2022: The World Cup That Changed Everything - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/11/19/spo…

I genuinely haven’t enjoyed watching someone play football as much as I enjoy watching Khvicha Kvaratskhelia play football for years. He’s instinctive, untamed, anarchic and, most of all, he’s really, really good fun. nytimes.com/2022/10/26/spo…

This story, about a friendship built on pickup soccer games, the search for work and a love of baseball, turned even a few die-hard Mets fans on the New York Times Metro desk into Yankees fans for a day. By Raúl Vilchis via NYT Metro nytimes.com/2022/10/24/nyr…

.Raúl Vilchis met some recently arrived Venezuelans trying to make their way in NYC, united by their love of soccer and baseball nytimes.com/2022/10/24/nyr…

BREAKING: A yearlong investigation found U.S. Soccer executives, N.W.S.L. owners and coaches at all levels of American soccer had turned a blind eye toward years of reports of abuse from players. It is appalling reading. nytimes.com/2022/10/03/spo…

Exclusive: Since 2010, #LFC sponsor Standard Chartered has provided $7.5bn of funding to the owners of the Cerrejon mine.

Cerrejon has been described as an existential threat to Luis Diaz’s Wayuu people, while the UN has asked it to suspend operations.

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Must read ➡️ How an Afghan Soccer Player Escaped the Taliban and Began a New Life by ⁦Juliet Macur⁩ nytimes.com/2022/08/31/spo…

In football some clubs have always been more equal than others. At UEFA, it seems PSG is more equal than just about anyone else.

Story about the curious relationship between PSG, its boss and UEFA, where conflict of interest matter little.

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/08/24/spo…

Nuestro artículo en la primera plana sobre las dificultades a las que se enfrenta Nueva York para acomodar a los miles de migrantes que llegan en autobús desde la frontera. También lo pueden leer en español:
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con Raúl Vilchis

Stark stat on NYC homelessness & migrants:

Family shelter population is up 8.5% since mid-July, due partly to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott 's buses.

If this keeps up for a year, family shelter pop will nearly double, to ~60k.
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In Metro's story this weekend, a look at how NYC is trying to balance its identity as the place the world turns to for sanctuary, and the crush of new people who are overwhelming its safety nets, by Andy Newman and Raúl Vilchis via NYT Metro nytimes.com/2022/08/20/nyr…

Gov. Greg Abbott chartered a bus to send a group of migrants to New York, where Mayor Eric Adams said asylum seekers were overwhelming the city’s homeless shelters. nyti.ms/3zZqM3R

Asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty pass through Texas on their way to New York City all the time. But this summer they're finding themselves in the middle of a political battle. via NYT Metro Andy Newman Raúl Vilchis nytimes.com/2022/08/06/nyr…

Sometimes, you start reporting one story and it morphs into something completely different. This was about how women’s club teams are scouting Euro 2022, but it ended up being about how an “antiquated” approach to transfers holds the women’s game back nytimes.com/2022/07/25/spo…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection quietly changed last year how they count deaths on the border to only include deaths in custody, during arrests or when agents were nearby. Reuters exclusively learned there were 151 such 'CBP-related' deaths in 2021 reut.rs/3vaKjM0

Brilliant and important reporting by the best Mica Rosenberg

Charlie Montoyo, the manager of one of the best teams in MLB, the Toronto Blue Jays, loves salsa. He holds jam sessions in his office at the Rogers Centre. But he also goes to a salsa club in Toronto to perform with a band. So we tagged along recently: nytimes.com/2022/06/10/spo…