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Uneasy neighbours: Can three World Cup hosts put differences aside for a month?
Key takeaways
- Football fans travelling to North America for the continent's first co-hosted World Cup will find three host countries who have endured a tense time.
- The tournament, which will take place across a sprawling 16 host cities and three countries, comes after a period of fractious relations between its hosts: the US, Canada and Mexico.
- The underlying issues seemed distant when the countries' leaders met for the draw in Washington DC in December and posed for a selfie with Fifa boss Gianni Infantino.
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Anthony Zurcher, Jessica Murphy and Will Grant Washington DC, Toronto and Mexico City Watch: World Cup hosts Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney take stage together Think of it as being like a dinner party where the hosts are in the midst of a tense argument when you arrive.
Football fans travelling to North America for the continent's first co-hosted World Cup will find three host countries who have endured a tense time.
The tournament, which will take place across a sprawling 16 host cities and three countries, comes after a period of fractious relations between its hosts: the US, Canada and Mexico.
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