India, April 12 -- "We are 26" is FIFA's slogan for this year's World Cup. It's a rather vague successor to last time's powerful mantra. "Football unites the world," they cried, in 2022. But then, so much has changed ahead of the tournament's kick-off in June. First, the game's international governing body awarded US President Donald Trump a newly created FIFA Peace Prize in 2025. Now we have the unique situation of the US - which was at war, until a recent and somewhat-tenuous-seeming ceasefire - co-hosting a World Cup in which Iran, the country it attacked for reasons that remain unclear, is set to play. Iran has so far refused to play in the US. The expectation was that FIFA would schedule these matches so they could instead be held in t...