FIFA expands World Cup press conference translation, but only for Spanish
One day after a viral video showed a FIFA official preventing a Mexican journalist from asking a question in Spanish, FIFA is changing its press conference translation rules. The question came before the Morocco-Brazil group-stage match at “New Jersey Stadium” during the 2026 World Cup. Rodrigo Ornelas of Mexico’s TV Azteca asked Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi,…
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