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Hosting a world cup is like hosting an Olympics. The municipality that gets conned into doing it ends up in economic disaster. It turns out not to make a lot of economic sense to build a bunch of stadiums to be used one time and then left for nature to reclaim.
There are some fascinating articles about the old soccer stadiums they made in Brazil for their world cup, and the condition they are in now. They're halfway decomposed, like scenes from "The Last of Us", a video game set in post-apocalyptic times.
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