FIFA promised to investigate illegal Israeli settlement clubs, then allowed them to play on. This decision deepens FIFA’s complicity in the Israeli occupation. There are now 10 operating in the occupied West Bank, and they are getting bigger.

Members of the Palestinian national team never just played to win. They played to bring Palestine to the world, and the world into Palestine.

But the new generation of aspiring footballers want to bring the World Cup home. If Morocco’s historic victories this year have taught us anything, it is that nothing is impossible.