Credit card fraud and the World Cup

It appears that there has been deceptive dealings between certain FIFA marketing representatives and MasterCard, involving competitor VISA, involving the sponsorship of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. A court has red-carded FIFA and ordered them to play fair.

The court did not rule on whether the game was "football" or "soccer".

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