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There are a number of ways to dive deeper into the World Cup – whether you want to explore the impact of the Cup on individual players or the impact that hosting has on countries, you can find a lot of information through our databases. Highlighted below are a few articles we found interesting. Be sure to be logged in for off-campus access or connected to campus WiFi to access these items.

Critical Perspectives on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Events, Issues, and Controversies (eBook), edited by Adam Beissel, Julie E. Brice, Verity Postlethwaite, and Andrew Grainger

World Cup Challenges Are Not New: Increasing Complexity and the Evolution of Preparation Across 48 Years of FIFA World Cups by Alan McCall, Guilherme Passos‑Ramos, Gary Lewin, Zoran Bahtijarević, Oscar Luis Celada, Nicklas Dietrich, Les Gelis, Ricard Pruna, Gregory Dupont

Understanding resident support towards the 2030 FIFA World Cup: a co-hosting country’s perspective by Tiago Ribeiro & Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

Protecting Mental Health and Wellbeing at the Men’s Football World Cup by Adam Gledhill, Vincent Gouttebarge, Kensa K. Gunter, Kristoffer Henriksen, Andreas Ivarsson, Emma Kavanagh, Carsten Hvid Larsen, Margo Mountjoy

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