LOVERRO: The World Cup, which embraced Qatar, passed on Snyder, FedEx Field
Now that the 2022 World Cup is over in Qatar — a Middle East country not even as big as Connecticut, where they spent $220 billion and killed 500 people, by its own count, to host the event — the focus will now be on the next games, spread across a whole continent. The 2026 World Cup will be played in North America with games set for Mexico’s Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Monterrey; Canada’s Toronto and Vancouver; and in the U.S., Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay area and Seattle. And Scranton. Just kidding about Scranton. It’s just a funny word to say or type. Like Buffalo. Here’s where not one single World Cup game will be played in 2026 — Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital, when the country will b...