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Journalism of Courage
There were the ticketing screw-ups, the dismal refereeing errors, the often mediocre football and the very mixed weather.
But anyone who suggests Asia’s first World Cup was a flop is probably missing the bigger picture of a tournament that, if the sceptics were to be believed, was a disaster waiting to happen. In the end, the hooligans and terrorists stayed at home and the formidable obstacles posed by hosting the 64-match tournament and its accompanying one million visitors in two countries with often rocky relations were overcome with no major hitches.
Perhaps more importantly, the tournament has gone a long way towards cementing soccer’s place as the true world game.
